It’s a really good thing to be able to look back at where you’re coming from. It gives you a sense of how far you’ve travelled as well as how far you’ve still got to go. You get this same sense of dja vu on watching Aretha Franklin on the “Cliff Richard Show” in 1970 some 40 years ago, in this video.
Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin (then around 28 being born March 25, 1942) is dolled up in heavy afro, baby doll dress and thigh high boots shaking her booty and everything else, baby! Austin Powers nyam your heart out.
Somehow, looking back at the 1960s/1970s make the present look so boring. This era just seemed to have much more of a fashion sense and style; today people just seem to just cover their bodies with clothes. It’s a crude generalisation but that’s just another thing…
The important thing is that the music of the day carried this fashion theme forward. When the music is a classic like “Say A Little Prayer” it becomes monumental.







