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With more than 20 multi-platinum, platinum and gold albums and singles, WAR remains one of music’s defining and most enduring funk and soul groups.

Hailing from Long Beach, CA, producer Jerry Goldstein assembled the seven-piece band with former Animals lead singer Eric Burdon in 1970, and the alliance produced No. 1 worldwide hit “Spill The Wine.” Stepping out on their own in 1971, their righteous vision and revolutionary sound fused R&B, rock, Latin music, jazz, and blues, and in 1973, The World Is a Ghetto vaulted to No. 1 on Billboard’s pop and R&B charts. It became the No. 1 best-selling album of the year. In 2023, fronted by co-founding member Lonnie Jordan, the group celebrates 50 years of a record that is as relevant today as it has ever been.