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The Queen Next Door - Aretha Franklin, an Intimate Portrait (Hardcover)
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The Queen Next Door - Aretha Franklin, an Intimate Portrait (Hardcover)
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Aretha was private. I respected this and she trusted me. Linda
Solomon met Aretha Franklin in 1983 when she was just beginning her
career as a photo journalist and newspaper columnist. Franklin's
brother and business manager arranged for Solomon to capture the
singer's major career events-just as she was coming back home to
Detroit from California-while Franklin requested that Solomon
document everything else. Everything. And she did just that. What
developed over these years of photographing birthday and Christmas
parties in her home, annual celebrity galas, private backstage
moments during national awards ceremonies, photo shoots with the
iconic pink Cadillac, and more was a friendship between two women
who grew to enjoy and respect one another. The Queen Next Door is a
book full of firsts as Solomon was invited not only to capture
historical events in Aretha'smusic career showcasing Detroit, but
to join in with the Franklin family's most intimate and cherished
moments in her beloved hometown. From performance rehearsals with
James Brown to off-camera shenanigans while filming a music video
with the Rolling Stones, from her first television special to her
first time performing with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, to her
last performance with her sisters at her father's church and her
son's college graduation celebration. In the book's afterword,
Sabrina Garrett Owens, Franklin's niece, honors her aunt, a woman
who wasan over whelming supporter of civil rights, women's rights,
and fundraising campaigns that helped to benefit her hometown.
There was a time in her career-when Franklin was more in demand
than ever before-when she insisted that if someone wanted her to
perform, they had to come to Detroit. During this time all of her
majorconcerts, national television specials, music videos, and
commercials would happen in Detroit. Aretha Franklin showed her
respect for the people in the city who championed her from the very
beginning when she started singing as a young girl in the church
choir. Franklin used to say, ""I am the lady next door when I am
not on stage."" The Queen Next Door offers fans a personaland
unseen look at an extraordinary woman in her most natural
moments-both regal and intimate-and highlightsher devotion to her
family and her hometown Detroit-""forever and ever.
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