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April 26, 2006
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The GAP Band, cocaine, his wife and his music

CHICAGO, Ill.-Really, the Gap Band are members of the primacy of R&B/Funk innovators. Three Black men out of Tulsa, Oklahoma. took us by storm-they knocked us out!

We have loved their music, their modernism, and their lyrics for years. C'mon, their song's hooks have become a hip part of our vernacular. Oops Upside Your Head, ("I Don't Believe You Want to Get up and Dance,") and "You Dropped a Bomb on Me."

Ronnie, Robert and Charlie Wilson, their impression on us, simply: "Outstanding."

Charlie Wilson and his brothers formed what was originally the Greenwood, Archer, and Pine Streets Band; their derivational name represented the Black ...

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