Robert "Kool" Bell, the last surviving original member of Kool & the Gang, is overjoyed by the news. "It's been 60 years," he ...

Sunday’s (April 21) episode of American Idol revolved around the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Host Ryan Seacrest and judge ...

Robert "Kool" Bell of Kool & the Gang. The Jersey City band, whose hit songs resound through multiple genres of music, is ...

Kool & The Gang has never really needed a reason to party, but it certainly got one last week. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "CELEBRATION") KOOL AND THE GANG: (Singing) Celebrate good times, come on.

KOOL AND THE GANG: (Singing) Celebrate good times, come on. It's a celebration. Celebrate good times, come on. RASCOE: After 60 years moving and grooving and giving us all reason to get down ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to a patron of the party, musician George Brown of the band Kool & The Gang, about his new book, new record, and the "Celebration" of a long and funky career.