George Duke
Don Snowden, Musician, 25 June 1984
"THERE WERE times last year when I would walk in here and say, 'Look at this,'" muses George Duke, surveying the now calm control room of his Le Gonks West home studio. "Sister Sledge would be finishing up a session, Phillip Bailey would be on his way in for one and Jeffrey Osborne would call me in the evening about this one song. It was insane."
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