Babyface
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
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The Importance of Being Funky
We were heavily inspired by Earth Wind and Fire. They were also inspired by the Chick Korea and Stanley- Return to Forever. So we tried to be Jazzy too, so that's what it goes to a little Jazzy. And then inspired by Stevie Wonder too. Not done very well, but still. The ideas was there. But it was part of not really knowing how to put it all together. We thought it was commercial. That was one of the first songs that Man Child took from me. I definitely wrote that on the acoustic guitar,. And I was trying to be funky. "I want to play one of the songs off the first record that you wrote and
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