Site 5 Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin – A Charming, Soft-spoken, Ambitious, Self-confident Artist

Aretha interview shot

Despite the fact that she is the biggest name in the music world, Aretha Franklin is a voice without an image. She is just a remarkable sound on a record. The public knows little about Aretha. She rarely grants press interviews. She employs no publicists and press agents. She lives in a world that has never been penetrated by the press.

But now for the first time, a Canadian journalist has secured an interview with Aretha Franklin, and found out how the Franklin phenonemon came about.

atlantic test pressing

In one of the pleasant middle-class homes which line the long streets of north west Detroit, passers-by often notice an attractive young woman dusting and re-arranging ob- jets d’ art in the living room.

If any of the pedestrians ever stopped to tie up a shoelace, they would catch the familiar sound of daytime TV soap operas. The situation is typical. The woman is not.

Her name is Aretha Franklin. She’s the biggest phenomenon to stun the music industry since the paralyzing debut of the Beatles. In the past 12 months, she has sold more records and made more money than any member of the recording fraternity.

A year ago, Aretha lived in another house — close to the city’s ghetto area — and another world. In those days, she dusted, watched soap operas, and dreamed of the day when things would change. It came.

Ritchie Yorke 1968

elenor rigby with horns

The only pressing and perhaps the only recording in the world of Aretha Franklin’s Eleanor Rigby with Horns.

CHRIST YOU KNOW IT AIN’T EASY

JOHN AND YOKO’S BATTLE FOR PEACE

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LED ZEPPELIN

THE DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY

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VAN MORRISON

INTO THE MUSIC

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Ritchie Yorke
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