Body and Soul

The title track of his 1980 LP opens its second side. Onyeabor wrote, arranged and produced it, and it was recorded and mixed at the Wilfilms studio in Enugu. The lyric is an invitation: he plays his music for the listener's body and soul, and anyone in trouble should come and dance it away. NPR called it a ten-minute boogie anthem, and Pan African Music compared it to Bernie Worrell and to Herbie Hancock in his Sextant period. It opens Who Is William Onyeabor?

Live and covers

Onyeabor never performed it. At the first Atomic Bomb! show, at the Barbican on 1 April 2014, it came straight after a pastor's sermon, with Ahmed Gallab and Money Mark on synthesizers, and it stayed in every full setlist that year. Scientist remixed it for the Moog series in 2013, Justin Strauss and Bryan Mette and David Terranova remixed it for WHAT?! in 2014, Peaking Lights reworked it for a seven-inch in the second box set, and KOKOROKO covered it in 2022. The upload in the hypersongs web is the original 1980 recording as compiled on Who Is William Onyeabor?, with an animated video and a short opening composition by Policy.