Busta’s Person of the Week: Band is working on new music, back on the road again

By Busta Brown It was 1979. I was amongst the over 20,000 fans partying with the opening act for The Jacksons’ Destiny Tour. The band had the crowd dancing in the aisles to their 1978 number one hit, “Holdin’ On When Love Is Gone,” and then hit us with their 1976 number one slow jam classic, “Love Ballad.” Jeffery Osborne’s silky-smooth voice had the ladies melting in their seats. The band closed their non-stop 30-minute set with an electrifying performance of the 1977 number one dance classic, “(Every Time I Turn Around) Back In Love Again.” They were a hard act to follow.  Before the legendary Jeffery Osborne took us “On The Wings of Love” and had women singing, “And you, woo, woo, woo. You should be mine,” he was the dynamic front man for the band L.T.D. After a string of chart-topping singles and albums during the ‘70s, Osborne decided he wanted to go solo. That didn’t go over well with the rest of the band. The results were devastating for the R&B crooner, and it nearly cost Osborne his life.  I caught up with the man who hired the “Stay With Me Tonight” singer. His name is Tracy...