After a strong 1981 release
Raise! (click
here for that review), the R&B group Earth, Wind & Fire followed it up in 1983 with
Powerlight, their twelfth studio album. Today (February 7th) marks the thirtieth anniversary of that release. Though it only charted at number 82 in Australia, it reached number 24 in Canada, number 22 in the UK, number 12 on the US Billboard Hot 200, and number 4 on the US Billboard R&B chart.
