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Midnight Train to Georgia: The Phone Call With Farrah Fawcett That Became a Soul Masterpiece
Midnight Train to Georgia: The Phone Call With Farrah Fawcett That Became a Soul Masterpiece In 1970, a failed quarterback called his football buddy’s house in Los Angeles. The buddy’s new girlfriend answered the phone. She mentioned, in passing, that she was packing to take the midnight plane to Houston. The quarterback hung up, grabbed…
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Gladys Knight: The Empress’s Private Battles and Quiet Triumphs
The voice never wavered. Through four marriages, a son’s death, a custody war that cost her a fortune, a gambling addiction that nearly swallowed her, and sixty years of an industry that never stopped trying to define her, Gladys Knight kept singing like the church girl she was at seven years old on Ted Mack’s…
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The Grapevine Wars: How Gladys Knight Beat Marvin Gaye to His Own Song
It is one of the strangest stories in Motown history: the label’s biggest hit of the sixties was recorded three times, rejected twice, and released by the act its own boss believed in least. “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” was cut first by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, then by Marvin Gaye — and…