ISBN: 9780312318284

"I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You," Aretha Franklin's first album for Atlantic Records and famed producer Jerry Wexler, was a pop and soul music milestone that jump-started Franklin… Mehr…

"I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You," Aretha Franklin's first album for Atlantic Records and famed producer Jerry Wexler, was a pop and soul music milestone that jump-started Franklin's languishing career. Almost overnight, Aretha became a top-selling recording artist and a cultural icon. But the album almost didn't happen. Matt Dobkin has unearthed fascinating details about the recording session in Muscle Shoals, Alabama: about the volatile behavior of Aretha's manager/husband, Ted White; about Aretha's reaction to the lack of black musicians in the session; and about how tempers and alcohol almost derailed the session with only a track and half in the can. This book goes far beyond anything that's been written about "The Queen of Soul" or her music before." I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You" is the story of a great achievement and includes scores of fresh interviews: Wexler, the session men from Muscle Shoals, Aretha's own musicians, and others. It gives insight into a star more complex and determined than her modern diva image would seem to indicate. Aretha, a teenage mother and daughter of a commanding preacher father, rose above her circumstances and transformed them into art. She gave the civil rights movement, already well under way in 1967 when the album came out, a passionate call to arms. And with "Respect"-along with the title track, one of the album's first two singles-she provided the burgeoning feminist movement with an enduring theme song. The first serious, nonbiographical look at Aretha Franklin's work, "I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You" will deepen even ardent fans' understanding of one of the great soul artists of our time, a direct descendantof Bessie Smith and Billie Holliday. Media > Book, [PU: St Martin's Press]<

2004, ISBN: 9780312318284

Foreword: Giovanni, Nikki, St. Martin's Press, Hardcover, Auflage: First Edition, 272 Seiten, Publiziert: 2004-11-04T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: 0006022, 0.45 kg, Verk… Mehr…

Foreword: Giovanni, Nikki, St. Martin's Press, Hardcover, Auflage: First Edition, 272 Seiten, Publiziert: 2004-11-04T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: 0006022, 0.45 kg, Verkaufsrang: 2467939, R&B & Soul, Musical Genres, Music, Arts & Photography, Subjects, Books, St. Martin's Press, 2004<