Storyline: Watch Amazing Grace on Hulu which is about Aretha Franklin who sang with her choir at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles. Aretha Franklin performs live at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles in 1972 for her gospel album Amazing Grace. The gospel inflections of songs like “Shine a Light” and “Let It Loose,” according to critic Jordan Hoffman, were inspired by this encounter.
Rev. Franklin: I went in the cleaners one day in Detroit to pick up some clothes, and Aretha had appeared on a recent television show. And she told me, “I saw your daughter Aretha last night.” I said, “Yes? How did you like it?” She said, “It was all right. But I’ll be glad when she comes back to the church.” I said, “Listen baby, let me tell you something. If you want to know the truth, she has never left the church.”
Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts can be seen rocking out in the back of the church. Perhaps not coincidentally, they were about to record “Exile on Main Street,” the Rolling Stones’ most overtly gospel-influenced album.
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