chain of fools her voice, the soundtrack for multiple generations. aretha franklin, the queen of soul, has passed. surrounded by family and friends in detroit after a battle with pancreatic cancer. we are celebrating her life, we are celebrating her music, her beautiful music and mourning her death this morning. i will take you back to detroit right now. ryan young is standing by at the franklin family longtime church. hi there, ryan. hello. music that touched generations and another musician is here with me. you said you had so many interactions with aretha over the years. what stood out with you? the thing that stood out to
she loved the theater. we went to see a show a couple of years there was a show playing on broadway called baby it s you, a review of music from the early 60s. there was a young woman in the show we were sitting in the third row. there was a young woman in the show who comes forward to sing say a little prayer for you. she didn t know aretha was in the audience. the girl came forward to sing and leaned forward and aretha started singing back to her from the third row. i thought the girl was going to faint off the stage. that s what she would do. she embraced life, aretha. she loved to eat, obviously. she loved to go to theater. she loved music of all kinds. she loved to really live is what you are saying. she loved she lived this life fully. oh, she lived the life fully.
there s so many. say a little prayer my mind has gone blank. precious lord, take my hand. precious lord was my grandmother s favorite song. nobody could sing that like aretha. every sing that really came out of aretha franklin s mouth was the best song. i would say depending on the day, you would have to ask me what song. i love dr. feelgood, this is the house that jack built and chain of fools. i talk about how she remade one
morning? very sad. it s sad because she is no longer with us. but i am so delighted that during the course of her professional lifetime, no matter where she recorded her records, outside of the city of detroit, inside the city of detroit, she never left detroit. she loved the city of detroit. she loved its people. she loved her family. she loved everything about detroit and gave a lot to our city. i will tell you, she her image, her prestige has gone all over the world. my wife trudy and i are privileged to be invited to the clinton white house for a performance of aretha franklin. she was outstanding. it was so much pride to be there for the city of detroit and see
her generation and beyond. in fact, her music, her voice was and shall remain woven into the tab elpestry of our culture. she was the gold standard, and she will always be our queen. your thoughts right now? i ll admit, any time we ve lost an icon, i immediately call my mother. it was my mother who introduced me to aretha franklin. i remember growing up. we had the amazing grace album like propped up in our house at all times. so right now she really is i mean, it s a legend. i ve cried. i m having chills right now thinking about this woman gave us six decades of her life, and she really is and i know this term gets thrown around a lot, but aretha franklin really was a sound track to our lives. you re talking multigenerations of people who have an entry point into aretha. you know, it s kind of you immediately started to think, well, who else is going to give