
Those new fans might want to consult "It's Your Thing: The Story of the Isley Brothers," a three-CD career retrospective released two years ago. Biggs because that's when they came on board." Biggs and they're really not aware of 'Shout' or 'Twist and Shout' or 'It's Your Thing,' and all of the history that's involved in the Isley Brothers, and the musical changes that we participated in and thrived on, so that virtually everybody has copied or sampled our stuff and been very successful with it. "There are a lot of young people who relate to my brother as Mr. For instance, "Eternal" is credited to "The Isley Brothers featuring Ronald Isley a k a Mr. Biggs has become synonymous with Ronald Isley, at times threatening to overshadow him. There's a slight downside to all this, says younger sibling Ernie Isley. "There'll be a lot to prove so we'll be getting up for it," he says, adding, "We have so much fun with it." "We hope to have it out next year," says Isley, who also hopes to take Mr. Kelly recently finished writing the screenplay for a full-length feature that Kelly will direct, with both artists contributing songs. Biggs will jump from the small screen to the Bigg one: Isley and R. Biggs was sort of the unspoken title that was given to me, so we just put it on a record." "When I'd come around, it was 'You the man, you this, you that.' Mr. "The hip-hop players in the business kind of look up to me because of my longevity in the industry," explains Ronald Isley, pointing out that, along with James Brown and George Clinton, the Isley Brothers are the most sampled act in hip-hop. Biggs has since appeared in the video for the Isleys' 1996 single "Floating on Your Love" and as Kelly Price's "uncle" in her hit, "Friend of Mine." Naturally, he's front and center in the Kelly-directed video for "Contagious" (with Chantee Moore as "the woman") and stars in the upcoming video for "Secret Lover." Biggs is a big-pimpin' Mafia-like don who seeks revenge on Kelly for getting "between the sheets" with his woman. Kelly in the latter's 1996 video for "Down Low (Nobody Has to Know)." In the steamy love triangle at the heart of both song and video, Mr. Now, group founder Ronald Isley is about to embark on a second career as Mr. In pop music, that's as close to eternal as you can get.


In fact, "Eternal's" first single, "Contagious," made the Isley Brothers the artists with the longest chart span on the Top 100 in Billboard history at 42 years. 1 R&B, a remarkable achievement given that the first Isley Brothers single, the classic "Shout," charted in. In September, their 40th album, the aptly titled "Eternal," entered the Billboard charts at No.

IT'S BEEN a good eternity for the Isley Brothers.
