The band ” Kool & The Gang “, with one hundred million records sold, is among the most famous in the history of music.
Kool & The Gang originated as a group in 1964, their music influenced three generations with a unique blend of Jazz, Soul and Funk . How not to mention their debut album “Kool And The Gang” (1969) or “Let the Music Take Your Mind“ (1970).
Soon their Funk ceased to be exclusive music for street kids and became the soundtrack for disco dancing . We are in the seventies , the era of house parties with the family living room equipped with a dance floor, in which the special effects were nothing more than simple light bulbs that turned on intermittently.
In the legendary eighties , Kool & The Gang are still there and accompany us on the notes of Celebration, Cherish, Jungle Boogie, and the beautiful To Hot also shot by the extraordinary Lisa Stanfield.
From the 1970s to the 1980s , things changed. The discos have dressed up emulating the style of Studio 54 , the lights have become more and more sophisticated. The mobile phones were still science fiction, something similar was only seen in the Star Trek series, there was no saying “I’ll call you when I arrive” but you had to set precisely at the X hours in the usual place, you didn’t know what the CDs were, you danced the evening from ten to 1.30 max, or on Saturday afternoon. This beautiful group formed by Ronald Bell, his brother Robert “Kool” Bell and friends Robert “Spike” MIckens, Dennis “Tee Dee” Thomas, Ricky Westfield, George Brown, and finally Charles Smith will give life to one of the longest-lived and prolific from 70 to today.