Maurice White assembled Earth Wind & Fire around a cosmology — Afrocentric imagery, astrology, horn sections stacked on top of horn sections, and a belief that music could elevate consciousness. That's The Way of the World was a film soundtrack that vastly outran the movie it was supposed to support. Shining Star became their first number one. The album's title track is seven minutes of slow ascent — strings, voices, brass, and a production ambition unlike anything else on pop radio in 1975.
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