Williams, Stereo (26 November 2017). "The Beatles' 'Magical Mystery Tour' at 50". The Daily Beast. Archived from the original on 9 November 2020 . Retrieved 29 January 2020. a b Old, Pete. "Barry White Discography". Barry White Unlimited FanClub . Retrieved March 16, 2012. Find sources: "Barry White"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( August 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Walter Everett. The Beatles as Musicians. Revolver Through the Anthology. Oxford University Press. NY. 1999. ISBN 0-19-509553-7. ISBN 0-19-512941-5. pp. 134–35. After six years, White left 20th Century in 1979 to launch his own label, Unlimited Gold, with CBS/Columbia Records.

Smith, Steve (September 20, 2013). "Barry White Gets Walk of Fame Star". San Gabriel Valley Tribune . Retrieved January 6, 2014. We had a big fight. They said the songs were too long. Elton John heard a dub of my album. He took it to London and convinced some people that this might be the thing. In addition to its musical merits, ' I've Got So Much to Give' also stands out for its production values and innovative arrangements. Blending elements of R&B, funk, and disco into a cohesive sound, White paved the way for countless artists in the years to come.Pro Tip: To fully appreciate the magic of Barry White's music, listen with good-quality headphones or speakers that can reproduce his deep vocals accurately. Of course, it's all too easy to dismiss White as nothing more than an enormous Cupid, or a well-fed Romeo, especially because he himself colluded in that impression. In his 1999 autobiography, Love Unlimited: Insights on Life and Love, he claimed that at age 14, he was already acting as a marriage counsellor to neighbourhood couples. And by the time his great run of 70s hits ended, he occupied a niche of his own making: the Love Guru, the Walrus of Love. The persona was so ripe for parody it inspired Lenny Henry's Theophilus P Wildebeest creation which satirised White's supposed affinity with the cheesy side of romance. Aldridge, Alan, ed. (1990). The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics. Boston: Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence. ISBN 0-395-59426-X. Clark, Tyler (8 May 2020). "Ranking: The Beatles' Albums from Worst to Best". Consequence of Sound. Archived from the original on 19 January 2021 . Retrieved 22 December 2020.

In the mid-'60s, Bob Keane of Del-Fi Records hired him as an A&R man for his new Bronco Records imprint, and White started working with the label's artists, including Viola Wills and The Bobby Fuller Four, as a songwriter, session musician, and arranger. [4] He discovered singer Felice Taylor and arranged her song " I Feel Love Comin' On", co-written with his friend Paul Politi. It became a big hit in the UK. [9] Other charting hits written by White and Politi for her included " It May Be Winter Outside (But in My Heart It's Spring)" and " Under the Influence of Love". Bronco issued one of White's first singles, 1967's "All in the Run of a Day", produced by Keane and White. [21] White also wrote "Doin' the Banana Split" for TV bubblegum act The Banana Splits in 1968. [22] Cash Box Top 100 12/23/67". tropicalglen.com. Archived from the original on 9 March 2021 . Retrieved 20 May 2020. His funk grooves, quietly chugging away under the orchestral gloss, helped set the musical agenda for the first half of the 70s. But in the Nineties, a wave of nostalgia propelled various Barry White compilations into the charts. He scored hits with the album The Icon Is Love (1994), as well as with the safe sex message of the single "Practice What You Preach" and in his collaborations with Tina Turner ("In Your Wildest Dreams"), Quincy Jones (on "The Secret Garden"), the rapper Big Daddy Kane ("All of Me") and Lisa Stansfield (on a reworking of "All Around The World"). Simply Red covered "It's Only Love", one of White's compositions. Television appearances on Ally McBeal and The Simpsons increased his iconic status and, in 1999, he released his 41st album, Staying Power. MacDonald, Ian (2005). Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties (2nd rev. edn) . Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1-55652-733-3.The band began recording the song at Abbey Road Studios on 5th September 2017, just nine days after the death of their manager and mentor Brian Epstein.

You have to have knowledge to deal with things," he said, looking around at the books in the library.Barry White's declining health forced him to rely increasingly on his 40-piece Love Unlimited Orchestra, so that he could perform such classic songs as Let The Music Play in concert. White attended Jacob A. Riis High School, an all-boys academy in southeast Los Angeles. [10] White's voice deepened suddenly when he was 14. [11] He recalled: "[As a child], I had a normal squeaky kid voice. Then as a teenager, that completely changed. My mother cried because she knew her baby boy had become a man." In an 2000 interview with Conan O'Brien he further recalled: "I woke up one morning when I was 14. I spoke to my mother and I scared both of us." [12] White grew up a churchgoer, and he added: "There's no God greater than the God that lives within you."