Sheryl Crow, Lance Armstrong Engaged

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The seven-time Tour de France champ Lance Armstrong confirmed his engagement to Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow on Monday. The cyclist proposed to Crow on Wednesday, August 31st, in Sun Valley, Idaho. The couple have been dating since they met at a charity event in October 2003.

Crow will release her fifth studio album, Wildflower, on September 27th, and has revealed that the album's title track was inspired by Armstrong and his three children (with ex-wife Kristin). "It's kind of a reminder, particularly when you look at his young children, how they gravitate to goodness and to light," says Crow. "The idea of the song is that no matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere."

Though no definitive plans have been set, Armstrong's spokesman says a spring wedding is likely. This will be the first marriage for the forty-three-year-old rock star and the second for the cyclist.

In the meantime Crow will hit the road in support of the release, playing a string of dates beginning October 16th in Seattle.

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“Everyday People”

Sly and the Family Stone | 1968

"Everyday People" managed to trailblaze in two different ways -- it was one of the first pop hits to deal with the subject of racial harmony, and it utilized Larry Graham's "slap" technique on the bass guitar, which would soon be copied by countless other bassists. Graham once said about his pulsating style, "I'd never done that before … that's where the freedom of creativity came in for the band, that we'd be allowed to do that." In 1978, the song's line "Different strokes for different folks" would be borrowed for the title of the hit television show Diff'rent Strokes.

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