How is it possible for a single song played on the radio one night to change the entire course of someone’s life?
I’m talking about Barry White. The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter with multiple gold and platinum records created music that helped define the 1970s and beyond.
But his career almost ended before it started when he was a teenager.He fell in with the wrong crowd, and actually wound up in jail. And that’s where one song changed everything as you’ll hear in a few minutes.
In 1999 Barry White published a memoir called Love Unlimited. His publisher offered me a few minutes with him on the phone from his home in Los Angeles.
So here now, from 1999, Barry White.
Barry White died in 2003. He was 58.