"I've Seen the Light" was the outcome of myself and Edwin Starr's co-writing. A piece of Luther Vandross type eighties style soul with a huge gospel influence throughout. J.J. loved it so much that he went back to Detroit and performed it on a local TV show there. Very few of the Motorcity releases had an extra appeal to the mainstream London soul crowd, but this one certainly did. I first met J.J. Barnes in 1971 when my first business venture with my Father, when I was eighteen, was to put him on at Blackpool Mecca. I had written an article about him when I was fifteen for Collectors Soul Magazine called "J.J. Barnes The Uncrowned King Of Soul" Eighteen years later he signed to Motorcity and recorded about twenty five songs, this being one of the stand out ones.
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