Earth, Wind and Fire
Bob Fisher, NME, 17 May 1975
LIKE EVERY OTHER sub genre of soul seems to do, the current blockbuster – jazz-funk, bump-funk, party street-dance, or whatever you care to tag it – is going through a phase of overkill.
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