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War
Mixing together a wildly eclectic range of sounds and styles, War created some
of the funkiest, free-form music of the 1970s and went on to sell over 50
million records. Originally a gang of R&B and jazz musicians named The Creators
from some of Los Angeles' toughest ghettos, Eric Burdon - from 1960s British
rockers The Animals - spotted them playing in North Hollywood and recruited them
as his backing band. With this melting pot of Latin rhythms, African drums, funk
swagger, blues guitars and jazz experimentation, War became one of the first
truly multi-cultural bands and talked...
