Touch the World is the fourteenth studio album by American band Earth, Wind & Fire, released on October 30, 1987, through Columbia Records. The album reached No. 3 on the Billboard Top R&B Albums chart and No. 33 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart.[2][3] Touch the World was certified Gold in the US by the RIAA.
Touch the World was produced by Earth, Wind & Fire leader Maurice White. Artists such as George Duke, Marc Russo and Ricky Lawson of Yellowjackets, Jeff Porcaro of Toto and Edwin Hawkins, Walter Hawkins, and Lynette Hawkins Stephens with the Hawkins Family appeared on the album.[4]
This LP ended a four-year hiatus for the band, with Maurice White reforming the group by bringing back longtime members Verdine White, Philip Bailey, Andrew Woolfolk and Ralph Johnson. Touch the World marked the debut of former Commodores guitarist Sheldon Reynolds to the lineup while Sonny Emory went on to fill the drum chair.
"System of Survival" was written by a black songwriter known as Skylark that gave a demo tape containing the song to White while sitting in his Cadillac in the Studio D parking lot.[6] Coming off the album as a single, the tune reached number one on both the Billboard Hot R&B Songs and Dance Club Songs charts.[7][8] System of Survival was also nominated for a Soul Train Award for Best R&B/Soul Single – Group, Band or Duo.[citation needed] Another single, "Thinking of You" reached number one on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart and peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Hot R&B Songs chart.
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