In 1978, Earth, Wind & Fire covered "Got to Get You Into My Life," from The Beatles' 1966 album "Revolver." EWF put their funky spin on the Beatles classic for the "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" film, starring the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton. The movie was a flop. Years later, Barry Gibb seemed genuinely surprised by the band's participation at all. "What was incredible is that people like Aerosmith and Earth, Wind and Fire got into that. You would have never thought any of them would have gotten into that ... thing," he told Rolling Stone.
However, the cover had a life beyond the film, thanks in large part to the band's inclusion of their take on "Got to Get You Into My Life" in their first greatest hits album, "The Best of Earth, Wind & Fire, Vol. 1," which was released that same year. The EWF version reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart and No. 9 on the Hot 100, per Songfacts. It only got to No. 33 on the UK Singles chart — a far cry from the original, which hit No. 6 in 1966. But the Earth, Wind & Fire version won the song's only Grammy Award, which came in 1979, for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s). It was also nominated for a Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals the same year.
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