- She was at the Grammys that night — there was a new Blues Brothers movie, and I had her performing with John Goodman and Dan Aykroyd.
- (The song was part of her last new album, Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics.) “She’s an original,” Franklin told Rolling Stone in 2012.
- After an illnesses sidelined her from a number of shows last year and this summer, Aretha emerged on stage over the weekend looking like a new woman.