A History Of Soul Queen Aretha Franklin
Derek Boltwood, Record Mirror, 30 December 1967
WELL, WHAT'S going to happen in 1968? New faces? New stars? Of course. But as we step gingerly over the threshold into the new year, clutching our lump of coal in the one hand, and holding our ancestral kilts up with the other, we can be sure that some of the faces of '67 will be there to greet us. Not just as faces, but as stars.
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