All of You: Music or Marketing

[Jaap]

While searching for something else, I came across this picture of an article from a 1984 issue of Black Beat magazine, raising the question whether "All of You" was either "music" or "marketing," which in itself is a false juxtaposition. Most music, and particularly duets, are also marketing [[Endless Love was intended to start Lionel Richie's solo career). Obviously, including duets with US American stars [[not just Diana, also Willie Nelson) was a marketing ploy to help this usually in Spanish singing ex-football player to break into the English language pop market. Yet, at the same time, I understand the reasoning behind the article. "All of You" is a fine record, but really doesn't fit where Ross was at that moment [[on a personal note, when the song was released, my father loved it; I as a teenager found it boring, music for older people).