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Examines the legacy, cultural impact, and body of work of American R&B/punk/jazz/soul/disco band Earth, Wind & Fire, and will feature exclusive access to the band’s archives of visual, audio, and written material, as well as the support of the estate of Maurice White and the band.
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00:00Once you strike that first note,
00:02there's something that happens.
00:03I feel my heart open up.
00:06You get to moving.
00:12And then you hear...
00:16That's when the funk starts.
00:18I'm saying to myself, if they can do that,
00:20what can I do?
00:24Earth, Wind & Fire were making
00:26a whole different sound.
00:27No people were playing no music like that.
00:31You're thinking they're coming from Africa
00:33or from outer space.
00:35It wasn't even a show.
00:36It was theater.
00:38We tried to bring us together as one.
00:41We didn't know what effect it would have
00:43on the people.
00:46One day,
00:48I picked up the kalimba.
00:49It kind of inspired me to get an African beat on my own.
00:55They've embraced that music could have
00:57a higher purpose.
00:59I want to reach the universe already.
01:03To evolve consciousness through the music.
01:07And change the world.
01:09Work.
01:09Change the world.
01:11Work.
01:11Change the world.
01:12Work.
01:13Work.
01:14Work.
01:16Work.
01:18Prince.
01:19Michael Jackson.
01:20They were down there taking notes, man.
01:22You're absorbing these powerful affirmations.
01:27It appears that everything we touch turn and go.
01:29They were defining blackness on their own terms.
01:32They made you feel anything was possible.
01:35But?
01:36I think they didn't even think down.
01:37Let's keep keeping.
01:38Now mine.
01:41All right.
01:43Let's move tonight.
01:46.
01:54You
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