Earth, Wind & Fire Helping Victims

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - Earth, Wind & Fire is donating $25,000 from every concert they perform, as well as profits from merchandise sales at the shows, to victims of last week's terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington.

"It puts everything, brings everything to center when these kinds of things happen,'' singer Philip Bailey told AP Radio. "The priorities are more aligned and the importance of things finds their proper place, hopefully, at least for a little while.''

Bailey said it's hard to know when the right time is to return to activities like going to concerts. The R&B group resumed its tour schedule late last week with a show in Norfolk, Va., and performed on New York's Long Island over the weekend.

"As we see that things are kind of getting back to normal, then we do have to get back to normal, and we do have to move on in terms of helping one another to get through this,'' the 50-year-old said. "And it's something that we'll never really get through. This is just a different time in history for all of us.''