and Rakim’s sophomore effort Follow the Leader, “Microphone Fiend,” sampled the menacingly serious groove of Average White Band’s “School Boy Crush” which helped shape the steadfast ...

Behind him sat an all-white band. Though the music of New Orleans and Frank Sinatra may both be remembered as jazz, Sinatra’s big band style was heavily dictated by a western musical structure which ...

Average White Band bassist and singer Alan Gorrie is most ... The English have another shape to their voices, which leads to singers like Bryan Ferry, Howard Jones and (Spandau Ballet’s) Tony ...

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EXCLUSIVE: The upcoming final performance of funk and R&B group Average White Band (AWB) is to be made into a concert film. Anthony Baxter (Flint) will direct Final Note: The Last Dance of Average ...

Like the Beatles, the Average White Band was luckless on its first record label—the Beatles on Polydor and AWB on MCA. Both also found enormous success in the U.S. shortly after their letdown.

Jack Russell, the former singer of the Great White band, has died after a battle with dementia, his family announced Thursday. He was 63. A statement posted to his Instagram page said ...