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KOOL AND THE GANG: (Singing) Celebrate good times, come on. It's a celebration. Celebrate good times, come on. RASCOE: After 60 years moving and grooving and giving us all reason to get down, the band ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- It goes without saying that Kool & the Gang will celebrate good times next weekend at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductions in Cleveland. The group is among the performers being ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to a patron of the party, musician George Brown of the band Kool & The Gang, about his new book, new record, and the... George Brown of Kool & The Gang on celebrating the ...

Probably no song in the last 45 years has been used to mark special occasions more than Kool & the Gang’s “Celebration.” When it gets played Oct. 19 at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland, it will ...

CHICAGO -- From one of the top R&B and Funk bands in the world, Robert "Kool" Bell, from Kool and the Gang stops by "Windy City LIVE" to chat about the bands' ongoing tour. Performing for over 50 ...

Kool & the Gang will headline the 26th Annual Celebrate Anderson Festival on August 31, 2025. The free community festival requires attendees to obtain tickets through AndersonEvents.com. Robert "Kool" ...

NEW YORK (AP) — You can call the music of Kool & the Gang funky or R&B, soulful or disco, pop or dance. What you cannot call it is partisan. When Iowa’s delegation at this summer’s Democratic National ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. CLEVELAND (WJW) — Before Robert “Kool” Bell ...

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are not the only New Jersey group in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame playing the Sea Hear Now festival in Asbury Park this weekend. Kool and the Gang are also on ...

Leader of the American funk and rhythm and blues band Kool & The Gang, Robert 'Kool' Bell when he arrived at the Kenya National Theatre for a press briefing ahead of his show at the KICC. PHOTO: ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Kool & the Gang's Michael Sumler was killed in a car crash just outside Atlanta, Georgia, on Saturday, local media ...