Gladys Knight: I Feel a Song
Bob Fisher, NME, 4 January 1975
RELUCTANTLY, ONE MUST admit that Aretha Franklin has now lost her crown as America's top female singer to Miss Knight. Gladys and her Pips have managed to move into the lucrative supperclub market without any discernible commercialisation of her gospelly voice.
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