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“All My Life”

Evan Dando | 2003

Evan Dando's rock star lifestyle includes drugs, models, mistakes and more drugs. In this deeply personal song, off his acoustic solo record Baby I'm Bored, the former Lemonheads frontman puts his misdeeds into perspective with a tinge of regret. But Dando didn't write the song. The Australian singer-songwriter Ben Lee wrote it for him. "He got it way better than I could have, ever, because he obviously has a clearer perspective on what I am," Dando said. "Ben knows me so well that he wrote my song, especially about my mid-life-crisis years. And he got it great."

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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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