From the archive, 2 August 1970: A little respect? That's the least she deserves

Aretha Franklin's first London concert in three years is inspirational and intense, writes Tony PalmerLast night, a chunky 5ft 5in 28-year-old Negress called Aretha Franklin, known to her admirers as Lady Soul, stampeded her way through her first London concert for three years at the Hammersmith Odeon. She was not so much giving a performance as bearing witness to the tradition of black American music that gave birth to pop and from which pop has gained much of its stimulus.The lady who first ma...

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