Everyday People Sly Stone's pleas for peace and equality between differing races and social groups, a major theme and focus for the band. The Family Stone featured Caucasians Greg Errico and Jerry Martini in its lineup, as well as females Rose Stone and Cynthia Robinson; making it the first major integrated band in rock history. Sly and the Family Stone's message was about peace and equality through music, and this song reflects the same. Unlike the band's more typically funky and psychedelic records, "Everyday People" is a mid-tempo number with a more mainstream pop feel. Sly, singing the main verses for the
Everyday (Slade song) ""Everyday" held the secret of the band's future, a crowd-swaying singalong of such scarf-waving majesty that it might well be single-handedly responsible for every great record U2 has ever made." In 2005, BBC Radio 2 ranked the song at No. 9 of 100 in their "Sold on Song" library, commenting on Holder's "decidedly affectionate and most un-Slade-like lyrics". They added: "It was a rare sentimental concession from the band who built their reputation on some of the best-loved rock 'n' roll of the 1970s." Everyday (Slade song) "Everyday" is a song by the British rock band Slade, released in 1974