5 (number)

:This article discusses the number five. For the year 5 AD, see 5. For other uses of 5, see 5 (disambiguation)

In music

• Using the Latin root, five musicians are called a quintet. One such group whose name celebrates their fiveness are the Jackson Five. (In an episode of Will & Grace guest-starring Janet Jackson, she declared that 5 is a mystical number and for that reason she must have precisely 5 backup dancers).
• The name of the band The Fifth Dimension implies that they are transcending beyond even the fourth dimension (time) into a new inner dimension.
• There was a British boy band called 5ive.
• Other bands with "five" in their name include We Five, Five Stairsteps and the Five Man Electrical Band.
• The Dave Clark Five and the Ben Folds Five both named themselves after their lead singers, with an implied four others.
• The Vogues song "Five-o'clock World" came in reference to the hours 9 to 5 (ending at 5 p.m.), which are the hours of a standard work day. There are also five working days (non-week-ends) in a week.
• 5 is an album by Lenny Kravitz.
• "Take Five" is a famous jazz standard composed by Paul Desmond. It counts five beats per bar.
• Jurassic 5 is a hip hop group whose second full length album was titled "Power In Numbers."