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question from Neil Page

Barry Manilow once asked me “Could it be magic?”, I couldn’t answer him, can you?

Barry asked me the same question. However, in his song, he foolishly ignored my original answer which was “There’s no magic involved, really. It’s simply misdirection, slightly of hand and blasé trickery. Nicely done, but let’s stop with the mysticism, okay?” I hear the eventual number was an underground dance hit.

This question was asked on 1 November 2002 and answered 11 months later on 28 September 2003.