From ELECTRIC UNIVERSE
Written by David Foster, Maurice White & Allee Willis
In the first half of the Eighties Prince took the music world by the storm with his innovative, heavily programmed, synth-funk stuff. Many r&b acts followed this new trend including one of the most refined, elegant groups: Earth, Wind & Fire. Maurice White, probably feeling that his band wasn’t that hip anymore, decided a drastic change in the sound of their 1983 release entitled “Electric Universe.”
From I AM
Written by Maurice White, David Foster & Allee Willis
“I Am was like our Abbey Road. It really scored pop” (Verdine White). “I think of it as a milestone album, whole careers came out of it. It was like, ‘listen to I Am and see what you can steal’. All the pieces came together” (Maurice White).
From EARTH RUN
Written by Lee Ritenour, Martin Page & Maurice White
Lee Ritenour says it well on the liner notes of this 1986 release: “If I’m Dreamin’ (Don’t Wake Me) started out as instrumental, but when David Foster added his part to the chorus and contributed the bass and keyboard parts, suddenly i had a new baby!” That says a lot about Foster’s ability to arrange a song and put his personal touch on it.
