lost a lot of music today, and heaven must be excited because it has a new lead singer for the gospel choir. >> that is true. if anybody has a voice that can lift with the angels, we know it was aretha. tell us, how was she at the end? did you get a sense of peace for her? >> well, she was at peace, you know. she battled this cancer since about 2005, really almost 15 years, and she has struggled with it. i think in the poetic sense, while she did a last farewell to detroit last summer, a big detroit event at a church where they named a boulevard after her father in chicago, and then with elton john, her last event, her battling with cancer to help people with aids. she did an aids concert with elton john. that says an awful lot about aretha, fighting for someone other than herself. >> you guys spent a lifetime together fighting some of the toughest fights our society has seen.