Single:
Everybody’s Got to Learn Sometime entered the Australian singles chart* on 1 September 1980 and peaked at #11. The song was #87 on the Top 100 of 1980.
Album:
The song is on Dumb Waiters which entered the Australian albums chart* on 29 September 1980 and peaked at #72.
Songwriter:
James Warren
Producers:
The Korgis, David Lord
Record label of Australian release:
Rialto
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Songfacts:
The Korgis from Britain were James Warren on vocals and bass, and Andrew Cresswell-Davies (aka Andy Davis) on guitars and keyboards.
Everybody’s Got to Learn Sometime was their only Australian and US hit. Warren said the simple lyrics concealed big ideas. “At the time, I was very into Buddhist philosophy. And also there was a particular Indian spiritual teacher called (Jiddu) Krishnamurti. He had his very individual philosophy, but it was basically a Buddhist approach to life. I used to read his books constantly at the time. So the lyrics to that song were really his kind of idea which I had imbibed. This thing about changing fundamentally the way we look at life, the way we look at other people. Change your heart and look at the world with completely fresh eyes, not with the eyes of our social conditioning. Break away from your social conditioning and look at the world as if you were looking at it for the first time without any preconceptions. All that kind of stuff. As simply as possible, I made that the lyric of the song.”
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/the-korgis/everybodys-got-to-learn-sometime
Lyrics:
Change your heart, look around you
Change your heart, it will astound you
I need your loving like the sunshine
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