Kool & The Gang March On With New Album & New Memoir

Written By Mike Greenblatt
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It’s amazing to think that Kool & The Gang started in Jersey City 59 years ago as The Jazziacs. The two co-founding members—bassist Robert “Kool” Bell and drummer/ keyboardist George “Funky” Brown—are still at it with some new young lions in the band. (The street Bell and Brown grew up on in Jersey City is now named Kool & The Gang Way.) The new album is People Just Want To Have Fun. The first single is “Let’s Party.” Funky Brown has also written a tell-all memoir, Too Hot:  Kool & The Gang & Me. He recently told Warren Kurtz at www.goldminemag.com, “this is the first time on any Kool & The Gang record that you hear a female singing lead vocals…It is growth for us as a group and helps to keep us multi-generational”

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Mike Greenblatt

MIKE GREENBLATT has been writing for Goldmine magazine and New Jersey's Aquarian Weekly for more than 35 years. His writing subjects fill the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

He's interviewed Joe Cocker, Graham Nash, David Crosby, Carlos Santana, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Johnny Cash, and members of The Rolling Stones and The Beatles. He was 18 when he attended Woodstock in 1969.

In addition to writing about music, Greenblatt has worked on publicity campaigns for The Animals, Pat Benatar, Johnny Winter, Tommy James and Richard Branson, among others. He is currently the editor of The Jersey Sound.

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