“Kool & the Gang overshadowed anything else he was allowed to do as a solo artist,” says Eastmond, who is now an adjunct professor at NYU’s Department of Music. “When you have such iconic ...

Few artists have been sampled by hip-hop producers more than Kool & the Gang. George “Funky” Brown’s drums have formed the backdrop to countless rap classics, while the group’s horn section has, for ...

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Sammy Hagar was on hand to induct the band Foreigner. Kelly Clarkson joined in for a performance of the band’s 1984 hit “ I ...

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the House of Music.” Did we know this? “That’s a new piece of information,” the founder of Kool & The Gang says during a chat at a suite at the Westgate. “We’re always finding ...

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Apart from an enduring presence in music, Warwick has something else in common with the other 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees from New Jersey. Both Warwick and Kool & the Gang made hits ...

The celebratory night featured a Cher and Dua Lipa duet, Kelly Clarkson leading a Foreigner supergroup and Dave Matthews Band ...

This year’s Ahmet Ertegun Award will go to pioneering music and television industry executive and former Motown President ...

The enduring classic was born out of another festive occasion — after Kool & the Gang performed “Ladies’ Night” at the 1980 American Music Awards. “When we came back,” said Bell ...

remembers music impresario Dick Griffey offering an idea so simple, it sounds ludicrously obvious in retrospect. “He said, ‘I think you need a lead singer,’” Bell tells Rolling Stone. Up until that ...