Aretha Franklin Sues To Protect Vintage Concert With Jagger, Beatles

DETROIT (Talk Radio 1270) An 18-year-old Aretha Franklin singing in a black
Baptist church in Detroit with just a piano for accompaniment. Her father
introduces her to an audience of the world’s best musicians, including the
Beatles and Mick Jagger.

Sound like a dream? Prominent Detroit attorney Arnold Reid says it’s for
real, he’s seen it, and he’s working to bring it to the public.

The videotaped concert from 1972 was put together by Franklin’s former
manager Terry Wexler, and it’s been in a vault at Warner Brothers since it
was created, Reid said. Someone from Warner Brothers stumbled onto it
recently and set up a few private screenings, but before they could promote
it or sell it nationally, Franklin had Reid file a federal injunction and
violation of privacy lawsuit against the media giant.

“They agreed to stop it — now we’re negotiating how much money they’re
going to pay Miss Franklin for the use of her name and likeness,” Reid
explained.

So, what will fans see if it ever becomes public?

“This is literally amazing,” Reid said. “When the cameraman pans the
audience, front row is Mick Jagger, and he’s clapping, like he’s getting
ready to get up in the pulpit and give some Negro spiritual words, I’m
telling you, like a black Baptist preacher, Mick Jagger was throwing
down.”

[detroit.cbslocal.com]



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superrevvy
Aretha Franklin Sues To Protect Vintage Concert With Jagger, Beatles

DETROIT (Talk Radio 1270) An 18-year-old Aretha Franklin singing in a black
Baptist church in Detroit with just a piano for accompaniment. Her father
introduces her to an audience of the world’s best musicians, including the
Beatles and Mick Jagger.

Sound like a dream? Prominent Detroit attorney Arnold Reid says it’s for
real, he’s seen it, and he’s working to bring it to the public.

The videotaped concert from 1972 was put together by Franklin’s former
manager Terry Wexler, and it’s been in a vault at Warner Brothers since it
was created, Reid said. Someone from Warner Brothers stumbled onto it
recently and set up a few private screenings, but before they could promote
it or sell it nationally, Franklin had Reid file a federal injunction and
violation of privacy lawsuit against the media giant.

“They agreed to stop it — now we’re negotiating how much money they’re
going to pay Miss Franklin for the use of her name and likeness,” Reid
explained.

So, what will fans see if it ever becomes public?

“This is literally amazing,” Reid said. “When the cameraman pans the
audience, front row is Mick Jagger, and he’s clapping, like he’s getting
ready to get up in the pulpit and give some Negro spiritual words, I’m
telling you, like a black Baptist preacher, Mick Jagger was throwing
down.”

[detroit.cbslocal.com]

I don't get it...Aretha is older than Mick, how could she be 18, in 1972...she was 30 years old. Is this some kind of delayed april fool's joke? She was 18 in 1960, before MJ ever went to America.

duh on me. i actually had the sense when i was cutting and pasting that
there was something strange about the "18 year old" part, but i was in a rush.
but now that you mention it, how could we have not heard about a church
performance with jagger and some of the beatles in attendance?

the "detroit news" version makes more sense. it does not mention jagger,
the beatles, or "18 years old". Jagger's presence i guess is still a possibility.

"The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, filed a lawsuit against a California man
who allegedly tried to release a documentary with video from her 1972
performance at the New Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles that later
became her best-selling album "Amazing Grace.""

[www.detroitnews.com]



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various websites do report mick jagger in attendance at this church
recording session, with either wyman or watts. no beatles.