Amazing Grace – Aretha Franklin, God, Soul and Respect
Detroit, is where musical talent ran strong and free. Everyone was singing and harmonizing, everyone was playing piano and guitar. Aretha came out of this world, but she also came out of another far-off magical world none of us really understood. She came from a distant musical planet where children are born with their gifts fully formed.
Tracks of the month: The world is our musical oyster
This month’s selection is a bit of a Cook’s tour of the world and where better place to start than Detroit – the metaphorical centre of the musical world.
The Heidelberg Project: searching for a city’s soul
The city of Detroit is portrayed as a harsh, violent and dark place. However it also has oases of beauty, colour and reflection, none more so than the area of Heidelberg.
Martin Luther King, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Underground Resistance – WTF is going on?
“Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government.”
Detroit: the fist and the fury, sanctification and pride
Wandering around the downtown district of Detroit I came across a huge black metal sculpture called ‘The Fist’.