In early 1972, Aretha Franklin arrived at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts for a pair of performances with the backing of the Rev. James Cleveland and the Southern California ...

Aretha Franklin was at the peak of her career and her creative powers when her gospel album “Amazing Grace” was released in 1972. (It sold more than two million copies and became her best-selling ...

Mick Jagger talks about a certain Aretha Franklin performance that’s indelibly etched in his memory as if it happened last week, not 46-plus years ago. “It was a really electrifying performance she ...

An assembly of people gathered in January 1972 in the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles for a service of sorts – though not the ordinary kind. Amazing Grace was released as a double ...

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“Amazing Grace,” the much-anticipated movie of Aretha Franklin’s storied gospel concerts in 1972, will be shown in a one week run beginning Friday, April 19 at Frank Banko Alehouse Cinema at ArtsQuest ...

Aretha Franklin bustled down the aisle of New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in her white dress and then slid behind a piano — an instant reminder of her formidable piano skills — for Marvin Gaye’s ...