Less than a week before her death, Aretha Franklin was on the phone with a friend, planning her next record. “I knew she was under the weather,” says Harvey Mason Jr., an R&B producer and session pro known for his work with Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson and Justin Timberlake. “But she said, ‘Harvey, when are we going to start recording? I want hit records! I want stuff that’s going to be on the radio!’”
In her final decade, up to her very last days, the Queen of Soul...
In her final decade, up to her very last days, the Queen of Soul...
- 9/28/2018
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
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