“Measuring Kool & the Gang’s influence is like asking what the influence of the Beatles was over pop music.” Mark Ronson remembers the group's following the death of co-founder Ronald 'Khalis' Bell
started discovering Kool & the Gang. It’s some of my favorite instrumental music ever, that and the Meters.
They were another band when they came back with [singer] J.T. Taylor [who made his presence felt on 1979’s]. A few bands have done that — Duran Duran went away and then came back. But it’s so rare. To do it and reinvent your style completely? To do an about-face and change your whole style is kind of what the Kanyes and Radioheads and Bowies do. There’s nothing better than a comeback story, especially when it’s such good shit at the same time.
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