Posted on 02/04/2016 3:05:22 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
NEW YORK – Earth, Wind & Fire founder Maurice White, whose horn-driven band sold more than 90 million albums and made hits like "September," ''Shining Star" and "Boogie Wonderland," died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles, his brother Verdine said.
White, who was 74, suffered from Parkinson's Disease and had retreated from the public even as the band he founded kept performing.
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That’s the way (yow) of the world...
Geez, that’s only 10 years older than me.
Just saw these guys like a year ago in Boston.
good show.
RIP
Great band, though I sometimes did confuse them with Blood, Sweat and Tears.
Actually for the best couple of tours EWF toured with Chicago.
A lot of great rockers are in their 70s. The ones that made it that far, anyway.
Yep, that’s why we are starting to see the big “die off”.
I liked them, too. And the Chi-Lites, and the Delfonics.......
Well, together they sounded great. Somehow I did not know “Phenix” was the name for “the EWF horns”. Or it didn’t come up in my internal search engine.
Speaking of horns, I lost a pretty good pal, Mic Gillette (trpt) from the original Tower of Power a week or so ago.
And the Ohio Players. Especially the album covers.
I’ll re-post this link.
There are at least 100 living rock stars age 78 and older.
http://www.ihopeidiebeforeigetold.com/oldest-living-rock-stars.php
We’ve got a great venue here in the bay area, in Saratoga, where most of these old bands show up every spring through october. I gotta make an effort to see more of their shows.
Yep. Awful hard on a 14 year old boy.
Fats Domino has made it to 87? Didn’t see that one coming.
in my neck of the woods.
Yea i saw them two last year.
Chicago is basically a different band now, i think only the trumpet player remains.
Felt like watching a cover band.
And Chuck Berry still hanging in there.
Damn, what a great singer and what a great group. R.I.P Maurice :(
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