Earth Wind and Fire
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Earth Wind & Fire: Gratitude
Review by Cliff White, NME, February 1976
PROOF AT LAST that EWF deserve all the acclaim that's been heaped on them in the last couple of ...

Earth Wind And Fire: The Ultimate Collection/Gratitude/All ‘N’ All/That’s The Way Of The World (Columbia)
Review and Interview by Kit Aiken, Uncut, September 1999
THE SNAZZIEST, JAZZIEST dance crew of the period. Their ‘one world’ spirituality, sunny mysticism and conspicuous musicality makes them a real genre one-off. Never as weird ...

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Earth, Wind and Fire
Profile by Bob Fisher, NME, 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 – ...

Earth, Wind & Fire: A Creative Explosion
Profile and Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, July 1975
TO UNDERSTAND the true power of Earth, Wind & Fire, you have to understand that these are nine people with a message. A universal message which ...

Santana and Earth Wind and Fire at Hammersmith Odeon
Live Review by Max Bell, NME, September 1975
ONE OF THE ironic features of Columbia's prestigious double billing, Earth Wind And Fire/Santana is that in America right now the kudos for star spot would ...

Earth, Wind, Fire, Dry Ice and Conviction
Interview by Cliff White, NME, September 1975
MAURICE WHITE, of the above qualifications, talks to CLIFF WHITE (no relation) about the New Thing in soul music. ...

Earth Wind and Fire: Signs Rise for Shining Stars
Interview by David Rensin, Rolling Stone, January 1976
LOS ANGELES – "Music is a sacred thing and we take it very seriously," Earth Wind & Fire founder/percussionist Maurice White offers during a rehearsal break. ...

Earth Wind and Fire: Spirit
Review by Joe McEwen, Rolling Stone, December 1976
The songs of Earth, Wind and Fire combine pure urban fantasy with the type of facile brotherhood messages that also crop up in the music of ...

Earth Wind and Fire: All 'n All
Review by Joe McEwen, Rolling Stone, January 1978
AT THEIR WORST, Earth, Wind and Fire indulge in some of the most pretentious excesses in current black music. As on past Earth, Wind and Fire ...

Earth Wind & Fire: Maurice White
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, February 1978
WITHOUT A shadow of doubt, Earth Wind & Fire is the most successful group that our music has ever given the world. In fact, after seven ...

Earth, Wind & Fire: All 'n All
Review by Cliff White, NME, February 1978
CBS HAVE A problem. To be sure, it's the sort of ticklish little teaser that most record companies would be glad to scratch, but a problem ...

Earth, Wind & Fire: Maurice White's Band of Hope
Report and Interview by Vivien Goldman, Melody Maker, March 1979
There's more to America's biggest soul band than bread and circuses. VIVIEN GOLDMAN followed them to Staffordshire to talk about the Bible, spinal fluid, reincarnation, levitation ...

Earth, Wind & Fire: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Pete Wingfield, Melody Maker, March 1979
PITY THE poor reviewer covering a show of the astonishing calibre of Earth, Wind & Fire's weekend extravaganza at the Empire Pool. ...

Earth Wind & Fire: I Am
Review by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, August 1979
MAURICE WHITE, Earth, Wind and Fire's presiding genius, ranges across popular music like a robber baron, selecting only the tastiest artifacts for his collection. ...

Earth Wind and Fire: Faces
Review by Danny Baker, NME, October 1980
ANY GROUP can only pack so much stuff. The stuff that oils and inspires their moves, greases songs, a magic stuff that flows through a succession ...

Maurice White: How the Black Man Bleached his Soul…
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, NME, January 1981
... or how Earth, Wind & Fire guru Maurice White deserted Memphis to achieve Nirvana in ...

Earth Wind And Fire: Ecstasy At The Dawn Of Creation!
Live Review by Gavin Martin, NME, March 1982
Earth Wind And Fire: Wembley Arena, London ...

Earth, Wind & Fire: Powerlight (CBS)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, NME, February 1983
I SAY, let's not groove tonight. Sometimes Earth, Wind & Fire get down on a groove and flashily mess it around. Sometimes they just lie down ...

Elemental: Earth Wind & Fire
Interview by Simon Witter, NME, Fall 1988
Monarchs of mind expansion and celestial 70s grooving, EW&F were the world's biggest pre-Wacko black superstars. Now they're back, as a 'people band', with a mission ...

Earth, Wind and Fire: Relighting the Fire
Report and Interview by Robert Sandall, Daily Telegraph, September 2005
MAYBE IT'S AN effect of the baking late-August heat, but the concert scene in Houston, Texas has gone all ...

Earth, Wind and Fire: The Way of the World
Profile and Interview by Bill DeYoung, Goldmine, July 2006
WITHOUT MAURICE WHITE, the 1970s wouldn't have been nearly as interesting. ...