War

The LA soul-funk band War were responsible for seven Top 10 hits in the 1970s, including “Low Rider,” plus the best-selling album of 1973, The World Is a Ghetto.

• The musicians comprising War first played together in various Los Angeles-area bands in the ’60s, including one called Nightshift that backed the football star Deacon Jones.

• In 1969, former Animals singer Eric Burdon joined up with Nightshift members Howard E.