#46 – “Aretha Arrives”…
August 1967, London More than ever, the soul music that is my passion is reflecting my life-as-lived. If whatever I experience with boyfriend #1 Franklin ...
#45 – “Take Me In Your Arms & Love Me”
July 1967, London I’m having a great time working at the small record department located in the John Menzies bookstore on Cheapside near St. Paul’s ...
#44 – “Going Down Slow”…
June 1967, London My passion for Aretha's first Atlantic LP, released in Britain in April is expressed in an article I write for the UK ...
#43 – “A Whiter Shade Of Pale”
May 1967, London I’ve written a letter to Dave Godin and Robert Blackmore at Soul City to let them know I’m going back to my ...
#42 – “Some Of Your Lovin'”
April 1967, London I’ve agreed to meet William, my first blind date at the Hammersmith Odeon cinema on a Saturday afternoon and I choose the ...
#41 – “Can I Speak To David?”
April 1967, London After Nina Simone's UK tour - which bodes well for the building of her British audience, one of my primary goals as ...
#40 – “I’m not singin’ that piece of s**t!”
Sunday, April 23, 1967, Brixton, London As her UK appreciation society founder, I’ve let Nina Simone know that the audience at the The Ram Jam ...
#39 – “On The Bus With Nina Simone”…
April 1967, London Moving my focus away from the challenges in my young love life, I’m continuing to champion Nina Simone as the founder of ...
#38 – “Are You Breaking Up With Me?”
March 1967, London While I’m in the glow of the Stax/Volt show from earlier in the week, I know that dealing with Franklin, my first ...
#37 – “The Memphis Sound Comes To Town”….
March 27, 1967, Croydon While my relationship with my first boyfriend Franklin continues to be challenging, I invite him to come to see one of ...