Aretha Franklin Dies
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Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
RIP Aretha - they have been playing her music on the local TV channel a lot - may she now be at peace after such a long illness.
She was incredibly popular here in the sixties. They showed a concert from 1968 in the Concertgebouw (Concertbuilding, which is mainly a venue for classical music in Amsterdam, but on occasion other music as well). The crowd is going NUTS about her, thowing flower pedals over her all the time. The organizers are threatening to stop the concert if people don't sit down, but the people can't seem to help themselves - after a while they're all standing again. Some seats are behind the musicians on the stage and one man stands up to dance and is pushed back roughly in his chair by security. You can see concerts weren't organized that well at the time, now there's much more and better organized security at concerts.
Surprisingly is that the most ardent and crazy fans are mainly male. There are Dutch and European people of course, but also quite a number of black men who strike me as more American than European and were following her around on her tour probably. I think it was her first European tour.
Funnily she seems completely unimpressed by it all, just doing her show and her songs in a regular way like nothing's going on. She strikes me as someone for whom it wasn''t about success, or maybe she just had a calm demeanor anyway,
She was actually introduced as the Queen of Rhythm and Blues rather than Queen of Soul.
I first saw her in The Blues Brothers movie (1980) and her scene was one that impressed me most. I think I didn't know who she (or James Brown and Ray Charles who are also in it) was, but the music just hits you immediately, it's so catchy on the first listen already.
Surprisingly is that the most ardent and crazy fans are mainly male. There are Dutch and European people of course, but also quite a number of black men who strike me as more American than European and were following her around on her tour probably. I think it was her first European tour.
Funnily she seems completely unimpressed by it all, just doing her show and her songs in a regular way like nothing's going on. She strikes me as someone for whom it wasn''t about success, or maybe she just had a calm demeanor anyway,
She was actually introduced as the Queen of Rhythm and Blues rather than Queen of Soul.
I first saw her in The Blues Brothers movie (1980) and her scene was one that impressed me most. I think I didn't know who she (or James Brown and Ray Charles who are also in it) was, but the music just hits you immediately, it's so catchy on the first listen already.
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.....there's gonna be a hell of a choir now in the clearing!!!.....Ms. Aretha is another of a handful of artists who deserve the "legend" tag.....raise that voice in the afterlife girl!.....we still want to hear you......
Here's a kick ass Aretha song that starts off slow and then kicks into full gospel gear.
Wonderful. Thank you.
Holy Moly. Made me bounce.