The horn-fueled title track gave Parliament their first Top 10 appearance on the Billboard R&B charts, doing James Brown proud with its stuttering funk groove, its singalong chorus imploring us all to “Get up for the downstroke.”

Now, I am quite sure that our beautiful hostess has been making an assignation, soliloquised Charles, who, for want of something better to do, had been watching the various actions of the group in the principal chamber in the castle,...

Since a sky lantern activity was held that night by the nearby Kinsha Township (金沙) office on the northern coastal area as a celebration for the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival — one of the major traditional festivals in Taiwan — local residents suspected sky lanterns were the cause of the fire. The Mid-Autumn Festival falls tomorrow. Kinsha Township chief Chen Kun-ti (陳昆第) admitted that sky lanterns, which are lit and released into the sky, were the most likely culprit.

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