Everybody's Gotta Live
| "Everybody's Gotta Live" | |
|---|---|
| Single by Arthur Lee | |
| from the album Vindicator | |
| B-side | "Love Jumped Through My Window" |
| Released | June 1, 1972 |
| Length | 3:31 |
| Songwriter(s) | Arthur Lee |
"Everybody's Gotta Live" is a song written by the American musician Arthur Lee. It was performed by Lee and released as a single in June 1972, coupled with the track "Love Jumped Through My Window";[1] both tracks also appeared that year on Lee's album Vindicator.
"Everybody's Gotta Live" was later re-recorded and released on the 1974 album Reel to Real by the rock band Love, a group in which Lee served as frontman.
A cover version by rapper Mac Miller, simply titled "Everybody", was released on Miller's posthumous 2020 album Circles.[2][3][4]
Release
[edit]"Everybody's Gotta Live" was written, performed and recorded by Lee, and released in June 1972 as a 45-rpm disc single, with "Love Jumped Through My Window" as its B-side.[1] Both tracks were also released that year on Lee's album Vindicator.[5] In 1974, a re-recording of "Everybody's Gotta Live" appeared on the album Reel to Real by Love.[6]
Reception
[edit]In 2022, Eoghan Lyng of Far Out Magazine called the song "[a] meditation on harmony," in which Lee "exposes the beauty of the world in a series of damning strokes. Sunlight must always follow darkness [...] The composition remains one of Lee's most evocative and impactful, growing in popularity like the canon it represented."[7]
In popular culture
[edit]The version of the song by Love was featured in the 2019 film Jojo Rabbit.[7][8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series". United States Copyright Office. 1972. Retrieved April 15, 2022.
- ^ Empire, Kitty (January 18, 2020). "Mac Miller: Circles review – a last look inward for a complex talent". The Guardian. Retrieved April 15, 2022.
- ^ Cooper, Leonie (January 20, 2020). "Who is Arthur Lee, the hippy icon Mac Miller covers on 'Circles'?". NME. Retrieved April 15, 2022.
- ^ Pascual, Jam (March 3, 2020). "Mac Miller's posthumous 'Circles' is a monument to the late musician's lust for life". ABS-CBNnews.com. Retrieved April 15, 2022.
- ^ "Billboard FM Action". Billboard. Billboard Publications, Inc. July 1, 1972. p. 52. Retrieved April 15, 2022.
- ^ "Billboard's Top Album Picks". Billboard. Billboard Publications, Inc. November 16, 1974. p. 61. Retrieved April 15, 2022.
- ^ a b Lyng, Eoghan (February 21, 2022). "Watch Arthur Lee perform 'Everybody's Gotta Live' in 1990". Far Out Magazine. Retrieved April 15, 2022.
- ^ Wetherall, Greg (October 6, 2019). "'Jojo Rabbit' review: Taika Waititi's hot streak continues". NME. Retrieved April 15, 2022.