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"Family Affair" is a 1971 number-one hit single recorded by Sly and the Family Stone for the Epic Records label. Their first new material since the double a-sided single "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)"/ "Everybody Is a Star" nearly two years prior, "Family Affair" became the fourth and final number-one pop hit for the band. ''Rolling Stone'' magazine later ranked the song #138 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The song version by John Legend, Joss Stone, and Van Hunt, won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals at 49th Grammy Awards. ==Overview== Released on November 6, 1971,〔(Billboard.com - Search Results: Family Affair Sly (singles charts) ). Nielsen Business Media. Retrieved on 2008-08-16.〕 "Family Affair" was markedly different from the earlier Sly & the Family Stone hits. "Family Affair" is a somber, Hohner Pianet electric piano based record with a rhythm box (or drum machine) providing the rhythm, making it the first number-one hit to feature a programmed rhythm track. Sly Stone and his sister Rose sing lead on the song. The lyrics reflect the good and bad aspects of being family, with Sly delivering his part in a low funk-styled tone instead of his earlier gospel-based shout, sounding off rhythm and off key. Sly's screams are a variation of a child crying. "Family Affair" was the most successful hit of Sly & the Family Stone's career, peaking at number-one on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 for three weeks, while achieving the same on the Billboard R&B Singles chart for five weeks. ''Billboard'' ranked it as the No. 79 song for 1972.〔Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1972〕 The band's long-awaited fifth album, ''There's a Riot Goin' On'', debuted at number one on the Billboard album charts during the same period. ''There's a Riot Goin' On'' was typified by a deep, dark style of funk, evident in "Family Affair", that earned the album a place as one of the most influential albums of all time. ≈Recorded in his Bel Air home studio and in NY at CBS, and mixed in LA at The Record Plant, with the exception of his sister Rose singing the refrain, "It's a Family Affair", Sly did not utilize the Family Stone for this recording. His friend Billy Preston played the keyboard lines in the song with Sly also playing keyboard as well as guitar, bass, and programming the rhythm box. According to the biography ''Sly and the Family Stone: An Oral History'', Sly Stone felt that this song wasn't strong enough to be released as a single. His manager and Epic Records—especially A&R executive Stephen Paley—had to convince him otherwise. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Family Affair (Sly and the Family Stone song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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