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Aretha Franklin at 2009 inauguration
A vintage Aretha Franklin documentary is coming.
The long-buried concert film, "Amazing Grace," chronicles her 1972 performance at a South Central Los Angeles church. It will premiere Nov. 12 at a NBew York documentariues festival, followed by week-long Oscar-qualifying runs in New York City and Los Angeles.
No Detroit release has been set, reports Adam Graham. He writes:
The "Amazing Grace" film has been a holy grail for music lovers for years. The film has fallen victim to legal hand-wringing in recent years, and a planned 2015 release was shelved at the eleventh hour over questions of the film's use of Franklin's likeness.
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The Detroit News
