![]() ![]() The late singer/songwriter/producer Marvin Gaye called the album “Aretha’s singular masterpiece… her greatest work…The musicians I respect the most say the same thing.” Though legal and technical quagmires kept the Sydney Pollack-directed film in the can for decades, critical acclaim continued for Franklin’s best-selling Amazing Grace audio album. She had returned to her roots, and the result was captivating. Anchored by the classic hymn, Amazing Grace, the sessions included her covers of Marvin Gaye’s Wholy Holy and of Carole King’s You’ve Got a Friend, comments from her pastor father, and plenty of lively audience reaction. What’s it all about?įranklin spent two evenings in January 1972 at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church recording Gospel songs with a choir before a live audience. ![]() Mick Jagger was in Aretha’s church audience. After the Queen of Soul’s 2018 death, her family released the long-mothballed 1972 documentary about recording her bestselling album at a Los Angeles church. ![]()
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