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((for|the song by Betty|People of the Sun (Betty song)))
((use mdy dates|date=February 2017))
((More citations needed|date=July 2023))
((Infobox song
| name       = People of the Sun
| cover      = People of the Sun (Rage against the machine single) coverart.jpg
| alt        =
| type       = single
| artist     = [[Rage Against the Machine]]
| album      = [[Evil Empire (album)|Evil Empire]]
| released   = August 22, 1996
| recorded   =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Rap metal]]
| length     = 2:30
| label      =
| writer     = [[Tim Commerford]], [[Zack de la Rocha]], [[Tom Morello]], [[Brad Wilk]]
| producer   = [[Brendan O'Brien (music producer)|Brendan O'Brien]], [[Rage Against the Machine]]
| prev_title = [[Bulls on Parade]]
| prev_year  = 1996
| next_title = [[Down Rodeo]]
| next_year  = 1996
))

"'''People of the Sun'''" is the second single by American [[Rock music|rock]] band [[Rage Against the Machine]] for their 1996 album ''[[Evil Empire (album)|Evil Empire]]''. Written in 1992, the song is about the [[Zapatista Army of National Liberation|Zapatista]] revolution. Lead vocalist [[Zack de la Rocha]] wrote the song after a visit to [[Chiapas]] in southern [[Mexico]]. "People of the Sun" also has a [[music video]]. It was nominated for a [[Best Hard Rock Performance]] Grammy in 1998, but it lost to [[The Smashing Pumpkins]]' "[[The End Is the Beginning Is the End]]".

The song has a wide variety of references, most notably the destruction of the [[Aztec Empire]] by the [[Spain|Spanish]] (see the article [[Five suns]]) and the [[Zoot Suit Riots]] of Los Angeles in 1943. De La Rocha also refers to the last Aztecan Emperor [[Cuauhtémoc]], who was tortured and eventually executed by the Spaniards.

The single artwork of the [[Maize|corn]], [[sickle]] and [[Belt (firearm)|ammunition belt]] is a 1927 photograph taken by [[Italians|Italian]] [[photographer]] [[Tina Modotti]] in Mexico.<ref>((in lang|it)) http://www.comitatotinamodotti.it/ctm.htm comitatotinamodotti.it</ref>

The final version of the song made its live debut on May 9, 1996, in Paris, France.

==Origin==
The band were known to perform this song live as early as 1992, the only difference being Zack's lyrics. A studio version was also recorded and has circulated on the internet. The original lyrics contained verses from their song "Fistful of Steel".

This version was first played on September 28, 1992, at the Club With No Name in [[West Hollywood, California]].

==Music video==
The video, directed by [[Peter Christopherson]] and produced by Fiz Oliver at Squeak Pictures, opens with shots of a dead [[indigenous Mexican]] girl (IMDB Melissa Herrera); her arm starts bleeding and the blood shows the words [[Trickle-down economics|"Trickle down"]]. Statistics illustrating the plight of the [[Zapatista Army of National Liberation]] are shown from a film projector being run in a morgue. Military footage of [[United States]] arms arriving in Mexico and the Zapatistas themselves are interspersed with this and shots of the band playing in front of a brick wall in about a 10 by 10 space. The version seen on MTV is the edited version; scenes of an indigenous worker being buried alive and trampled, and dead teenagers in the morgue, have been removed and replaced with military footage. The black and white documentary-style scenes of the laborer and the vaqueros are from the movie ''[[¡Que viva México! (unfinished film)|¡Qué viva México!]]'' by [[Sergei Eisenstein]], from the 1930s.

==Track listing single==

#"People of the Sun"
#"Zapata's Blood (Live)"
#"Without a Face (Live)"

==EP version==

In 1997 Rage Against The Machine released the "People Of The Sun" EP on 10-inch vinyl. It was distributed by [[Revelation Records]], who had signed De La Rocha's previous band [[Inside Out (band)|Inside Out]] before they split in 1990. The vinyl was shipped with a card containing information on the Zapatista movement in the Chiapas region of Mexico. In 2008, the vinyl was re-issued by Revelation Records. The ''Rage Against The Machine'' logo is off-center and vertically distorted on both the original and re-issue pressings.

A-Side
#People of The Sun - 2:30
#Without a Face (live)- 4:07
#Intro (Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos) (live)- 3:37
#Zapata's Blood (live) - 3:47

B-Side
#Bulls on Parade - 3:48
#Hadda Be Playing on the Jukebox (live)- 8:09

''Intro, Zapata's Blood, and Without a Face recorded live at the Pink Pop, May 27, 1996''<br />
''Hadda Be Playing on the Jukebox recorded live at Milan Dragway, Detroit, July 9, 1993''<br />
''Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos (H. Shocklee/C. Ridenhour/E. Sadler/W. Drayton)''<br />
''All other songs written and arranged by Rage Against the Machine.''

==References==
((Reflist))

==External links==
* [http://www.ratm.com/ Official Website]
* ((AllMusic|class=artist|id=p23206))

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[[Category:Rage Against the Machine songs]]
[[Category:1996 singles]]
[[Category:Songs written by Tom Morello]]
[[Category:Songs written by Brad Wilk]]
[[Category:Songs written by Tim Commerford]]
[[Category:Songs written by Zack de la Rocha]]
[[Category:Songs about Mexico]]
[[Category:1992 songs]]
[[Category:Songs about indigenous peoples]]

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