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There's a Riot Goin' On is a Funk act. Their sound grew out of Marvin Gaye. Those roots explain a lot about how There's a Riot Goin' On arrange songs and choose their tones. Their influence carried into Radiohead and The Rolling Stones, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 3 connections around There's a Riot Goin' On, reaching back through Marvin Gaye and forward to Radiohead. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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There's a Riot Goin' On is the fifth studio album by the American funk and soul band Sly and the Family Stone. It was released in November 1971 by Epic Records. The recording was dominated by band frontman-songwriter Sly Stone during a period of escalated drug use and intra-group tension. Recording sessions took place from 1970 to 1971 at Record Plant Studios in Sausalito, California and in Stone's home studio in Bel Air.
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There's a Riot Goin' On grew out of Marvin Gaye, went on to shape Radiohead and The Rolling Stones. 3 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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