Aretha Franklin: Sparkle (Atlantic)****
Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 16 October 1976
SUBTITLED 'Music From The Motion Picture', Sparkle is a soundtrack album, that plays like a record. It doesn't, unlike most of the genre, hang limply like a suit without a person inside.
Total word count of piece: 226
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