Stand! | ||||
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Released | April 1969[1] | |||
Recorded | 1968–1969 | |||
Studio | Pacific High (San Francisco) | |||
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Length | 41:27 | |||
Label | Epic | |||
Producer | Sly Stone | |||
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Stand! is the fourth album by soul/funk band Sly and the Family Stone, released in April 1969. Written and produced by lead singer and multi-instrumentalist Sly Stone, Stand! is considered an artistic high-point of the band's career. Released by Epic Records, just before the group's celebrated performance at the Woodstock festival, it became the band's most commercially successful album to date.[7] It includes several well-known songs, among them hit singles, such as "Sing a Simple Song", "I Want to Take You Higher", "Stand!", and "Everyday People". The album was reissued in 1990 on compact disc and vinyl, and again in 2007 as a remastered numbered edition digipack CD with bonus tracks and, in the UK, as only a CD with bonus tracks.
The album sold 500,000 copies in 1969 and was certified gold in sales by the RIAA on December 4 of that year. It peaked at number 13 on the Billboard 200 and stayed on the chart for nearly two years.[8] By 1986 it had sold well over 1 million copies and was certified platinum in sales by the RIAA on November 21 of that same year.[9] It then went on to sell over three million copies, becoming one of the most successful albums of the 1960s.[10] In 2003, the album was ranked number 118 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time,[11] 121 in a 2012 revised list,[12] and number 119 in a 2020 reboot of the list.[13] In 2015, the album was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for inclusion in the National Recording Registry.[14]
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