Show a little
respect for the Queen
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What can
you say about the Queen of Soul. She’s been there, seen it, done
it.
Jenna Bachelor
If you’ve always
wanted to know what the fuss was about here are 43 tracks which
sum up the lady’s seemingly never ending career.
Even none-music
lovers must have heard her most defining moments – Respect, Spanish
Harlem, Natural Woman and Say A Little Prayer.
More recently
she’s had to rely on star-name duets to maintain her success (or
rather those star names called on her services to add weight to
their songs).
So we have
Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves with Eurythmics and I Knew You
Were Waiting with George Michael (her only UK number 1).
CD one is the
killer album, where those early classics rub shoulders with other
great R&B standards – hence Son of a Preacher Man and Stevie Wonder’s
Until You Come Back To Me.
Thankfully,
her most recent output is kept to a minimum. Her attempt to go disco
in the early 80s (Jump To It) is ignored completely, as is, disappointingly,
her reworking of the Doobie Brothers What A Fool Believes.
The exception
to that rule is 1997’s A Rose Has To Die, a Lauryn Hill composition
which uses the latest production techniques to the full.
It’s a world
away from those 60s gems but proof, if proof were needed, that given
the right material, Aretha Franklin can still do the business.
Respect in released
on Warner / BMG 0927470542
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