After fueling so many other people’s parties, it will be time for Kool & the Gang to themselves finally celebrate when they are inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame next month in Cleveland.
LifeSouth encourages blood donations ahead of Helene’s landfallCity of Jacksonville shares info on closures, shelters, bridges & more ahead of HeleneTikTok absolutely loves how this Kodak scanner digitizes film and slidesFILE - In this Feb. 12, 2017 file photo Dennis D.T. Thomas, from left, George Brown, Robert Bell, and Ronald Bell, of the musical group Kool & The Gang, arrive at the 59th annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles.
“It feels wonderful, man, after all these years,” says Bell, who was born in Youngstown, Ohio. “When we first started, we didn’t know where we were going, but we loved what we were doing.” They won seven American Music Awards and were included on the Grammy-winning soundtrack for “Saturday Night Fever” and Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction.” Several members — including Bell — were asked to sing on the mega-selling 1984 charity single “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”
The band began in 1964 with brothers Kool and Ronald “Khalis” Bell, along with high school friends Dennis “D.T.” Thomas, Brown, Robert “Spike” Mickens, Ricky West and Charles Smith in Jersey City, New Jersey. They grew from jazz roots in the 1960s to become one of the major groups of the 1970s and ’80s, blending jazz, funk, R&B and pop.
The group was honored with a BET Soul Train Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014 and inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame four years later. During the very last space shuttle mission in 2011, one of the wake-up songs was “Celebration.”
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