Back - By Popular Demand, Earth, Wind & Fire and Chicago Return for a Summer of 2005 Tour

Back - By Popular Demand, Earth, Wind & Fire and Chicago Return for a Summer of 2005 Tour

'What happens when you cross Chicago with Earth, Wind & Fire? You get a big, raucous, happy band, supercharging a packed house of fans.' - says Daily Variety

'Mind Blowing ... smashing success' - says the Denver Rocky Mountain News

LOS ANGELES, March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Clear Channel Music Group announced today that, due to the overwhelming popularity of last year's tour, once again this summer R&B superstars Earth Wind & Fire will team up once again with legendary rock band Chicago to deliver yet another spectacular run of shows. Lauded as one of the most successful and creative tours of 2004, the 2005 summer run of the Earth Wind & Fire / Chicago shows promises to be even more electrifying. Fans can once again expect to hear more than 3 hours of hits including a full-length set from each band, with two incredible jam sessions at the opening and closing of the show, with both bands playing on stage together.

Legendary band Earth, Wind & Fire is simply one of the most important, influential, innovative and commercially omnipotent contemporary pop music bands of the 20th century. Check their 34-year Curriculum Vitae: millions and millions of albums sold worldwide (including eight double-platinum albums, two platinum albums and three gold albums); eight Grammy Awards, four American Music Awards, honors from the NAACP and BET and a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; the coup de grace: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2000. Earth Wind & Fire remain to this day one of the top globally popular touring attractions with a catalog of mega-hits spanning over three decades.

Chicago has written, recorded and performed some of the most popular and best loved songs in rock history. Through it all, they have remained a working band, releasing 29 albums and touring continually since forming in 1967. This Grammy award winning band has sold a record number of albums, and had 20 Top 10 hits, 5 Number One albums, 5 Number One singles and 5 Gold singles. Chicago has also won American Music Awards, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and had a downtown Chicago street renamed in their honor.

The tour will kick-off on Friday, June 24th in the city of Chicago, where both bands launched their prestigious careers over 3 decades ago. This is the must see tour of the year for music lovers of all ages.

Tour Dates:

6/24 Chicago Venue TBD 6/26 St. Louis UMB Bank Pavilion 6/28 Cleveland Tower City Amphitheater 6/29 Detroit DTE Energy Music Theatre 7/1 Holmdel PNC Bank Arts Center 7/2 Scranton Ford Pavilion at Montage Mountain 7/3 Wantagh Tommy Hilfiger Jones Beach 7/4 Hershey Hershey Park Pavilion 7/8 Atlantic City Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa 7/9 Atlantic City Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa 7/10 Pittsburgh Post Gazette Pavilion 7/13 Wallingford careerbuilder.com Oakdale Theatre 7/15 Manchester Verizon Wireless Arena 7/16 Boston Tweeter Center 7/17 Saratoga Springs Saratoga Performing Arts Center 7/19 Cincinnati Riverbend Amphitheatre 7/20 Columbus Germain Amphitheater 7/22 Camden Tweeter Waterfront 7/23 Raleigh ALLTEL Pavilion 7/24 Atlanta Chastain Park 7/25 Atlanta Chastain Park 8/5 Virginia Beach Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach Amphitheatre 8/6 Charlotte Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Charlotte 8/9 Nashville Starwood Amphitheatre 8/12 West Palm Beach Sound Advice Amphitheatre 8/13 Tampa Ford Amphitheatre 8/16 Indianapolis Verizon Wireless Music Center 8/19 San Antonio Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre 8/20 Dallas Smirnoff Music Center 8/21 Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion 8/23 Oklahoma City Zoo Amphitheatre 8/25 Denver Red Rocks Amphitheatre 8/26 Albuquerque Journal Pavilion 8/27 Phoenix Cricket Pavilion 8/31 Seattle White River Amphitheatre 9/2 Concord Chronicle Pavilion 9/3 San Francisco Shoreline Amphitheatre 9/4 Santa Barbara Santa Barbara Bowl 9/6 Los Angeles Greek Theatre 9/7 Los Angeles Greek Theatre 9/9 San Diego Embarcadero 9/10 Irvine Verizon Wireless Amphitheater

About Clear Channel Music Group

The Clear Channel Music Group, a division of Clear Channel Entertainment, focuses on global, national and local promoting, venue and festival management, and artist touring services. The Division promotes live music concerts by a majority of the world's most popular performers, as well as many new up-and-coming artists. It currently owns, operates, or exclusively books approximately 80 live entertainment venues in the U. S., including 46 amphitheaters, 10 indoor theaters, and 25 clubs and 8 venues in Europe. Clear Channel Entertainment is a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications (NYSE:CCU), a global leader in the out-of-home advertising industry. More information may be found by visiting http://www.cc.com/ and http://www.clearchannel.com/

Source: Clear Channel Music Group

CONTACT: Jolene Pellant of Clear Channel Touring, +1-310-867-7000, or jolenepellant@clearchannel.com ; or publicity for Earth, Wind & Fire, Mark Young, +1-212-929-3339, or myoung@thefactoryinc.com ; or publicity for Chicago, David Millman, +1-503-864-2700, or david@mhi.net

Web site: http://www.clearchannel.com/ http://www.cc.com/

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