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After earning eight Grammy Awards (plus nominations for their most recent 2005 album Illumination and its Raphael Saadiq-produced single, "Show Me the Way"), four American Music Awards, eight double platinum/Top 10 Pop albums, eight #1 R&B singles, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a year 2000 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Lifetime Achievement honors from the NAACP, ASCAP and BET-Earth, Wind & Fire (EWF) and their music remains as inspirational and influential as ever.  Their relevance to the landscape of pop music remains evident from their recent electrifying perforamce at the Super Bowl, three consecutive outdoor summer performances on 'The Today Show,' a knockout team-up with hip hop giants OutKast on the 2004 grammy telecast and two back-to-back SRO concert tours with their pop-rock peer band Chicago.

Maurice White wanted to form a band that abolished the lines between musical genres, freely borrowing from all styles without regard to convention.  "I wanted to do something that hadn't been done before," Maurice explains.  "Although we were basically hazz musicians, we played soul, funk, gospel, blues, jazz, rock and dance music...which somehow ended up becoming pop.  We were coming out of a decade of experimentation, mind expansion and cosmic awareness.  I wanted our music to convey messages of universal love and harmony without force-feeding listeners' spiritual content."

Earth, Wind & Fire made a crucial move to Columbia Records where their next three albums, Last Days and Time (1972), Head to the Sky  (1973) and Open Our Eyes  (1974), ushered them onto the radio.  The group put major stock in their live shows, performing in any and every club, college and theatre that would book them, typically on double bills with bands from the rock, jazz and soul arenas.  A broader demographic within their underground following began to amass, but it was the soundtrack to an ill-fated film that broke EWF wide open, That's The Way of the World (1975) was a stiff at the box office (twice), but Earth, Wind & Fire's galvanizing 8-song Lp was a sales and cultural phenomenon.  The group earned its first #1 since ("Shining Star"), first Grammy Award and first double platinum sales award from that now-classic album.

Reflecting on all of the years of music-making, history-making and memory-making, Verdine concludes, "Along with Maurice, Philip, Ralph and I are like brothers now.  It's one thing to be able to hang out and talk, but it's another level when you play music together.  It's definitely an out of body experience...all about accessing the spirit.  Being together this long, we've had a chance to do that and then some, let alone the contributions we've had the opportunity to make to the music scene in general."