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Earth Wind & Fire: Memories of Trane & Motown

Vernon Gibbs, Rolling Stone, 6 December 1973

CINCINNATI — MAURICE White and Phillip Bailey, the two lead singers and percussionists for Earth, Wind and Fire, are sitting in a rented Pontiac parked in front of the main arrival gate at Cincinnati Airport. They have just come in from Columbus and a gig with the Temptations. Settled in the comfortable seats of the car, and unruffled by the thought of yet another gig that is a part of an endless summer tour, they begin to harmonize.

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