Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen [CD-single]

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Warning: This CD does not contain Baz Luhrmann's inspirational song "Everybody's Free (to Wear Sunscreen)." It has instead a parody of the song. Luhrmann's "Everybody's Free (to Wear Sunscreen)" is available on Something for Everybody. --Mike McGonigal

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Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)
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A simple message set to the right beat gets the word out

You know...

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WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)
Luhrmann
Manufacturer: EMI Int'l
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000JHTT
Release Date: 1999-06-07

Tracks:

Everybody's Free (to Wear Sunscreen) (Edit)
Everybody's Free (to Wear Sunscreen) (Geopgraphic
Love Is In The Air (Fran Mix)

Album Description

Single featuring two versions of the 'Romeo & Juliet' director's spoken word hit/ graduation anthem 'Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)' (Edit & Geographic Factor's 15+ Mix), plus 'Love Is In The Air' (Fran Mix). No U.S. release exists! Slimline jewel case. 1999 release.

Album Details

Also known as the 'Sunscreen Song (Class of 1999)'; the song was conceptualized by film producer Baz Luhrmann ('Romeo & Juliet', 'Strictly Ballroom'). Inspirational, spoken word-type lyrics are applicable at any graduation, for any year. Includes a remix of the song plus the track 'Love is in the Air (Fran mix)'.

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A simple message set to the right beat gets the word out.......2006-02-27

Originally published in a column by Mary Schmich of The Chicago Tribune June 1, 1997. Baz Luhrman was inspired by the Vonnegut hype and got Quindon Tarver to do the vocals. Together they spread the word to the next generation who may not want or think they need advice from "ols farts, what do they know".

On August 3, 1997, Ms Schmich writes about the work that was heard round the world:
"But out in the lawless swamp of cyberspace, Mr. Vonnegut and I are one. Out there, where any snake can masquerade as king, both of us are the author of a graduation speech that began with the immortal words, 'Wear sunscreen.'
I was alerted to my bond with Mr. Vonnegut Friday morning by several callers and e-mail correspondents who reported that the sunscreen speech was rocketing through the cyberswamp, from L.A. to New York to Scotland, in a vast e-mail chain letter.
Friends had e-mailed it to friends, who e-mailed it to more friends, all of whom were told it was the commencement address given to the graduating class at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The speaker was allegedly Kurt Vonnegut."

The genius about the song is that it is funky and catchy and insidiously makes you think. Frankly all good art makes you think long after the performance is finished.

A+ to the collaborative effort of the 3 artists who made it oh so memorable!

You know..........2005-12-01

...WHY didn't they have this when I was a kid?!? WHY did this have to wait until I was a junior in high school to come out?!? I mean, EVERYTHING you need to know to survive life without insanely high therapy bills is in this. Junior high and high school would have been ridiculously easy if someone had told me all of this. But, I'm rambling...again. Buy it, listen to it often, and by listen, I mean LISTEN. And pass the word along to others. It's the greatest advice you'll ever find, even if it is fished from the disposal.

Masterpiece.......2005-11-01

Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) is truely one of the most amazing songs I've ever heard. It always brightens up my day when I'm feelings down. Baz has created a work of art here, and this CD is recomended to everyone. Please give this a chance and listen!

get this song!.......2005-03-11

after lisions it on the radio when it first came out, i just had to get it as this song will make u think about your loved ones and that your life is not so bad after all. this is a pick me up song that will make u keep smiling till the end. get this song NOW!!!

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?.......2004-06-21

Who-ever thinks this song is rubbish is an absolute idiot he must not understand the true depth and meaning to the song

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AMAZING ADVICE FOR ANYONE
SOLID Thoughts!
it's probably the only song that people listen 2 the lyrics!
Brilliant
Good message but...

Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen
Basil Coppertan
Manufacturer: Groove Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 1999-06-15

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Warning: This CD does not contain Baz Luhrmann's inspirational song "Everybody's Free (to Wear Sunscreen)." It has instead a parody of the song. Luhrmann's "Everybody's Free (to Wear Sunscreen)" is available on Something for Everybody. --Mike McGonigal

Customer Reviews:

AMAZING ADVICE FOR ANYONE.......1999-12-20

BASIL HAS THE MOST AMAZING VOICE. THE BACKGROUND MUSIC IS VERY CATCHY. LIVING IN SOUTH AFRICA WITH OUR STUNNING WEATHER THE ADVICE IS VERY GOOD. SOMETHING TO TELL YOU CHILDREN ABOUT.

SOLID Thoughts!.......1999-08-20

I listen to gospel & jazz 24-7. To find a message in another song is very re-freshing. Please share the name of the artist so I can find the CD upon return to the states. Signed: Stuck in Japan.

it's probably the only song that people listen 2 the lyrics!.......1999-06-10

i love this song! it is probably the only song that i actually listen and pay attention to the lyrics. i know the words to alot of other songs, but the words to this song are my favorite!!!

Brilliant.......1999-06-02

I think this song is Brilliant. It's a one of a kind and different to all other music available. It reaches out to people because it gives advice and it's what people think and relate to in everyday life. I love it!

Good message but..........1999-06-01

I think something was truly lost in the interpretation of Mary Schmich's original article "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young". While Baz Luhrmann had a great idea going, the music that the lyrics were set to didn't accent the right words- in text, the part about respecting your elders has a good bit of humor to it, as if Schmich had simply interjected it. In the song, you can feel the line coming as soon as the word "respected" is uttered 2 seconds earlier. The music itself isn't that much different; somehow you can anticipate the various pauses in the song as if you looked ahead in a book and saw that a new paragraph or chapter was on its way. Also, the music tends to drag, making the song seem quite a bit longer than it really is.

As Kurt Vonnegut (who the song had been quickly mis-attributed to) said in the graduation speech he gave this year at a Georgia women's college, "books are sincere." The same level of sincerity that went with Schmich's article went down quite a few notches with Luhrmann's recording.

Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen
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Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen

Manufacturer: Msi Music Corp
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000DEOM6
Release Date: 2002-08-20