Aretha Franklin: Lady Soul
Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 18 May 1968
SOME PEOPLE are going around saying that Aretha Franklin is the Queen Of Soul, many people are buying her records, and one person (show compère Johnnie Walker) even said that she was the best coloured girl singer ever to make records.
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