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Barry White: Limitless Love — The Maestro's Message

Joe Nick Patoski, Zoo World, 2 January 1975

"ISAAC HAYES? I defend him now," Barry White smiles confidently in his dressing room, Chivas in hand, dragging on his Benson-Hedges menthol. "People started to say Isaac is copping Barry White and I defend him now, have for the past nine months. But he don't really sound like me, he still doesn't. He's into his own thing and I'm in mine. I just feel I'm better in mine than he is in his."

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