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"When a man is making love, the last thing he thinks about is war"
- Barry White

Interview by Joe Smith
April 3, 1987, Los Angeles
Tape recorder

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BARRY WHITE
It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next To Me
You're The First, The Last, My Everything
Playing Your Game, Baby
Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe

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