Youtube.com is a great vehicle for making available long lost commerical video footage of favorite bands, for example Chicago which is one of my favorties.
One of the great features of Youtube is that it provides subject related links. For example Chicago videos links to Peter Cetera and Journey stuff as well. Last night while browsing some old Chicago stuff I found out by that David Foster (Producer) and Bill Champlin (Chicago keyboar and vocalist) wrote the famous Earth Wind and Fire song "Afer the love has gone". Holly Cow, the first think I thought was "Two white guys wrote this?"
The next bomb was that there was footage of them actually performing it! And not bad either!!! Maybe almost as good as EW&F.
This is from a recent concert with Bill Champlin and EW&F
This is the original footage from 1983, show Thicke of the Night. Man, I remember watching that show. Featuring David Foster and newly minted Chicago vocalist Champlin.
Anyways, Champlin and Foster are considered some of the best songwriters of this generation. So maybe it really should be that much of a surprise. But two white guys, sh*t!
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Shouldn't be too shocking... Rock and Roll, Blues and Jazz all have black roots.
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