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UnKool- (RIP Kool & The Gang Co-Founder Ronald ‘Khalis’ Bell)
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This is very sad news. Kool & The Gang are fantastic. The BBC showed their set from Glastonbury a few years ago and it blew the socks off everything else.
I second the love for Celebration. If it wasn't for that I'd go to major sporting events hoping to lose, knowing that a po-faced sway-along to We Are The Champions was all that victory held in store.
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Yeah, Kool & The Gang were on tour and somehow got roped into it. They weren't on the list Bob and Midge drew up, I'm sure. And Jody Watley was there basically because the record company that released the Band Aid single really wanted to sign her.
As for Kool & the Gang, they had some serious funk, some great party records and a few good ballads which redeem all that other shut they put out. I mean, "Joanna" is just embarrassing, and I've always hated "Let's Go Dancing".
But I love "Big Fun", "Ladies Night", "Hi De Hi, Hi De Ho", "Get Down On It", and, a for the tired legs, the great divorce dramas "Too Hot" and "Jones vs Jones" (which were cancelled out by the soppy but sweet wedding number "As One"). And from the funk era, of course, the much-sampled "Summer Madness". Listening to that on headphones when you're high blows your mind (er, I've been told).
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