Questlove on Earth, Wind & Fire Documentary, Why He’ll Probably Never Make a Prince Film, and What’s Coming Next

By Jem Aswad

Jem Aswad

Executive Editor, Music

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Across four documentaries — the Oscar- and Grammy-winning “Summer of Soul,” “Sly Lives,” “Ladies and Gentlemen, 50 Years of Saturday Night Live Music” and the new “Earth, Wind & Fire (to Be Celestial vs. That’s the Weight of the World),” which arrives on HBO Sunday night — Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, drummer and leader of the Roots and musical director for “The Tonight Show,” has established himself as one of the greatest music documentarians of this era.

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