Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. James "JT" Taylor in May 2024 in New York - Credit: Photograph by Griffin Lotz Everyone in the band knew there was a problem, even ...

When Kool & the Gang perform, it’s always a celebration, so as the song says, “Celebrate good times, come on.” The band will mark its 60th anniversary next year, and co-founder, bassist and bandleader ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robert "Kool" Bell, the last surviving original member of Kool & the Gang, will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. - ...

The great funk band Kool and the Gang began 50 years ago in Jersey City, New Jersey. In 1964, brothers Khalis Bayyan, aka Ronald Bell, and Robert “Kool” Bell joined their neighborhood friends Robert ...

Kool & the Gang's Robert "Kool" Bell is celebrating his R&B, funk and soul band's 60th anniversary this year. During an interview with Fox News Digital, the 73-year-old musician, who is embarking on ...

Disco legends Kool & the Gang are releasing their 26th studio album, "People Just Want to Have Fun," on July 14. Founder and drummer George Brown spoke to Insider about the project and wanting to make ...

When George “Funky” Brown passed away in 2023 from lung cancer, he was commemorated as the drummer for Kool & the Gang whose remarkable 60-year career took the band from the hardscrabble streets of ...

The trailblazer from Jersey City, whose music melds jazz, funk, soul, R&B, disco and pop, has been at it for 60 years now. Kool & the Gang took flight just a few years after Bell and his younger ...

The Grammy Award-winning duo announced Wednesday (May 3) that they will honor their 60th Anniversary with a collection titled, People Just Wanna Have Fun. The project is scheduled to arrive on July 14 ...

Kool & the Gang will release their new album Just Wanna Have Fun on July 14th. Next year will be the 60th anniversary of the R&B and funk band Kool & the Gang. And, even though we are still a year out ...

Ronald Bell was a Muslim and a founding member of Kool & the Gang. During a 2016 interview with Songwriter Universe, he explained the origin of “Celebration.” “I was reading the scripture,” he ...

E veryone in the band knew there was a problem, even if they didn’t know exactly how to fix it. It was 1978, and nearly a decade into their recording career, Kool & the Gang — the once-dominant jazz ...