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Aretha Franklin: Rockport Rhythm & Blues Festival, Newport, Rhode Island

Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, July 1997

"Summertime, and the living is easy..." So ring out the words of Aretha Franklin’s backing singers as they warm up the crowd for the entrance of soul’s most royal highness.

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