Mayfield
pioneered funk and socially conscious music for the black community.
His career
started in 1956 when he joined The Roosters. The band became The Impressions in
1958.
Mayfield
went solo in 1970.
(Don’t Worry) If
There’s a Hell Below, We’re All Going to Go (1970):
Freddie’s Dead
(1972):
His
signature song…
Superfly (1972):
We Got To Have
Peace (1973):
Kung Fu (1974):
Only You Babe
(1976):
She Don’t Let
Nobody (But Me) (1981):
Toot An’ Toot An’
Toot (1982):
He was
paralyzed in 1990 when lighting equipment fell on him.
No One Knows About
A Good Thing (1997):
Curtis
Mayfield died in 1999 a few months after being elected to the Rock n Roll Hall
of Fame.
