DEF: Earth, Wind & Fire “Faces”

News has been circulating over the past day that Earth, Wind & Fire founder Maurice White has passed away at the age of 74. The Chicago-based band experienced its greatest run of success between 1974 and 1983, when they hit the Top 40 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart sixteen times, most successfully with their only number one hit, “Shining Star,” which spent one week at the top of the chart in 1975 and began a streak in which the group reached the Top 40 with twelve straight charting singles.

Earth, Wind & Fire’s first album of the 1980s was Faces, a double album they released in October 1980. The last song on the two-disc collection is the title track, which clocks in at just over eight minutes long and is emblematic of the band’s sound and style. In memory of Maurice White, Earth, Wind & Fire’s “Faces” is today’s Daily Eighties Flashback.