People Hold On

Recorded in 1989 during sessions for Coldcut’s debut album What’s That Noise?, with Lisa Stansfield contributing lead vocals alongside Matt Black and Jonathan More. The single was credited as Coldcut featuring Lisa Stansfield. Released as Coldcut’s first single from What’s That Noise?, it became an early breakthrough for both Coldcut and Lisa Stansfield and reached No. 11 on the UK Singles Chart. Its label release on Ahead of Our Time gave the track a notable profile in the late-1980s UK dance crossover market. The track remained one of Coldcut and Stansfield’s best-known collaborations and has been widely sampled in later dance and pop records. WhoSampled lists it as sampled in more than 70 songs, including John Summit and Guz’s 2020 track “Thin Line.”