Kool & The Gang and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade are a match made in heaven. They are the longest-running R&B group in history. The parade is a cornerstone of the Thanksgiving celebration for ...
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 ...
Robert "Kool" Bell, the last surviving original member of Kool & the Gang, will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. - Credit: Ethan Miller/Getty Images Kool & the Gang bandleader Robert ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK — There’s a celebration anytime ...
"They finally recognized us," said Robert "Kool" Bell about Kool & the Gang's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction. Getty Images for The Buoniconti Fund To Cure Paralysis Kool & the Gang have provided ...
Kool and the Gang’s iconic anthem, “Celebration,” turns 40 years old this summer. It’s been played at weddings, graduations, and even a campaign rally for presidential hopeful Joe Biden. Bandleader ...
Everyone 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 ...
Ronald “Khalis” Bell, a co-founder and singer of Kool & the Gang who also wrote some of the group’s biggest hits, has died Wednesday morning at age 68. Bell died at his home in the U.S. Virgin Islands ...
It’s been a pretty terrific spring for Kool and the Gang. In April, the funk luminaries were inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame and saw the corner of Maple Street and Pacific Avenue in Jersey ...
There’s a celebration anytime Robert “Kool” Bell is around. The Kool and the Gang song “Celebration” is a classic and has now received a special honor. Bell, one of the founding band members, spoke to ...