In a career spanning seven decades, New Jersey's denizens of funk and disco, Kool & the Gang, notched up eight Top 40 albums and 20 Top 40 singles on the US pop charts, alongside a swarm of hits on the US R&B chart.
From an early age, George became fascinated with playing the drums, and first used butter knives as makeshift drumsticks to beat time on household objects. He bought his first drum kit with money he saved from doing a newspaper round, and paid $3 for a drumming lesson from a gentleman who used to play with the Shirelles.
And it did. He was born in Jersey City. His father, George Sr, was in the coal business, and his mother, Eleanor, worked as a maid in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
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