"It," of course, is the most influential, soul-explaining body of literature that the world will ever know.
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In her groups with the saxophonists Eddie Davis, known as Lockjaw, and Stanley Turrentine, to whom she was married for a number of years, Ms. Scott produced some of the most influential recordings in the smoother, more pop-oriented soul-jazz style.
Sly and the Family Stone, the subject of a new career-spanning boxed set, "Higher!" (Epic/Legacy), produced one of the most influential and impressive bodies of music in the history of American pop, energetically combining soul, rock, and psychedelia into something unprecedented.
A collection of proudly explicit sex jams, "Black Panties" restores Kelly's bawdy streak – the flair that made him the most influential R&B star of the last two decades -- following a pair of relatively chaste retro-soul excursions modeled on the work of Sam Cooke and the O'Jays.
Earth, Wind & Fire, American pop, soul, and jazz-fusion band that became one of the best-selling and most influential black groups of the 1970s.
One music journalist on Radio 5 Live told us "he was the most influential pop musician ever," and on Radio Four we were told he was "more influential than any other soul artist, including James Brown".
"People just saw a party that had wandered away from its soul," said Michael A. Needham, the chief executive of Heritage Action, an offshoot of the Heritage Foundation and perhaps now the most influential lobby group among Congressional Republicans.
