Gap Band

The Gap Band was an American R&B and funk band that rose to fame during the 1970s and 1980s. The band formed in Tulsa in 1967 based consistingly around three brothers Charlie, Ronnie, and Robert Wilson; and it was named after streets (Greenwood, Archer, and Pine) in remembrance of the Tulsa race massacre in the historic Greenwood neighborhood in the brothers' hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The band retired in 2010; Robert Wilson died in August 2010 and Ronnie Wilson died in November 2021, leaving Charlie Wilson the only living member of the band.
==Links to Peel==
In Peeling Back The Years, broadcast in 1987, Peel mentioned obtaining the band's debut album:
"Well, one of the most extraordinary ones that I found was the first LP by the Gap Band – recently in the charts – which was on Shelter Records, which was Leon Russell’s record label. And I took it in to show Robbie Vincent to ask him what he thought of it and you know whether he regarded it now as being a good record, and he’d never seen it before and didn’t even know it existed." 
When a remix of the group's Oops Upside Your Head track reached the UK Top 20 singles chart in 1987, Peel mentioned on his 03 August 1987 show that he heard the tune in the car on the BBC World Service chart rundown and realised how good it sounded. 
After Peel's death in 2004, it was later found he had three of their albums in his Record Collection: G. 
==Shows Played==
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*03 August 1987: Oops Upside Your Head ’87 Mix (single) Phonogram
*04 August 1987: Fontessa Fame (LP - Magicians Holiday) Shelter
== See Also ==
*Record Collection: G
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
*Official Website
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