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| ARETHA FRANKLIN : SUPERSOULSTAR December 1973, Phone interview conducted by David Nathan (in London) Aretha Franklin had just enjoyed major success with the Stevie Wonder composition "Until You Come Back To Me." She was in contract re-negotiations with Atlantic Records and already working on material for a new album... (c) 2007, David Nathan/SCI Enterprises, All rights reserved |
An opportunity of speaking with Miss Franklin does not come up very often, so Blues & Soul was naturally very happy when the lady
consented to an interview with us – possibly one of the very few Aretha’s given to anyone this year. On behalf of everyone here, the first
question was naturally when we could expect to see Aretha in Europe again: “Right now, Mrs. Bowen of Queen Booking is working on
an itinerary for Europe for some time next year – quite when, I don’t know yet. But we’ll definitely be coming over in 74,” said Aretha.
Right now, she is giving the other soul ladies around some strong competition with her latest single, “Until You Come Back”, which was
co-written by none other than Stevie Wonder. The combination of Aretha and Stevie is, of course, dynamite and she explained how it
came about:
“Stevie and I are old friends, you know. He often drops material by at the studios for me – and this particular song was written with
another old friend, Maurice Broadnax. I chose this one myself and we cut in New York.” Aretha confirmed that she’ll definitely be doing
some more of Stevie’s material in future."
Following on from the single, an album is due out in January from Atlantic (with whom, Aretha said, she was “almost re-signed”) and
she was happy to talk about it. “Now, let’s see. We’ve got some really funky tunes in there and some nice ballads. In fact, some good
things all the way round! I am very happy with the finished product, actually. We started work on the album (which will be called “Let Me
In Your Life”) back in July and did some things in August, September – through till about three weeks ago, when we finished it off..."
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| ARETHA FRANKLIN 1973 Interview (AF-73-2007) Conducted by David Nathan, (c) 2007, David Nathan/SCI Enterprises |
