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Article: That ain't no whale, it's your drum machine
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 19, 1995
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Isaac Hayes
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Besides devising the kind of symphonic soul seduction routines
which brought Barry White such success in the early Seventies,
Isaac Hayes was also a stylistic innovator, introducing both the
bowling-ball tonsure and the medallion-man gold-rope look to the
black style handbook. Not one to alter an intermittently successful
formula, Ike's still shiny of pate, and his low, low voice still
has the ability to ooze its way under the bedroom door and into
your heart.
He still likes to talk, too. "Listen - it's a heartbeat," he
fibs as a drum machine thumps its way into the opening track,
"Ike's Plea". "Could be yours, could be mine. Could be the ...