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    Galaxy

    Putting a lyric sheet on this album has to rank as one of the more enjoyable surreal acts of the rock & roll season. The lyrics are competent enough, but the idea of anyone listening to War for the words is funny almost by definition. Aside from that, Galaxy is well-crafted, nicely professional funk...

    1977 RS: Not Rated

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Biography

War's distinctive mix of funk, Latin, and jazz kept the group on the chart for most of the '70s. In 1970 War scored its first hit as ex-Animal Eric Burdon's backup band.

War's roots reach back to 1962, when Harold Brown and Howard Scott cofounded a band called the Creators. Still in high school, the two later met up with Leroy "Lonnie" Johnson and B.B. Dickerson, and in 1965 Charles Miller...

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