*You may not know this, but the late, great Aretha Franklin and the late, great Luther Vandross reportedly couldn’t stand each other while working together on her album “Get It Right.”
According to ILOSM, the two iconic musicians quarreled like an old married couple, so much so, that Aretha stormed out of the session and later recounted the moment in her autobiography, “Aretha: From These Roots.”
She wrote: “All of a sudden Luther wanted to tell me how to sing when it was me whom he had learned much about how to sing. My point was simple: If he wanted to tell the artists how to sing, why didn’t he sing it himself? His job was to produce and advise the artists about phrasing, diction, melody, and to be adventurous and say certain things, but definitely not say, ‘Sing it like this.’”
Their argument got heated because neither artist wanted to back down, so Aretha said she “picked up my coat and walked out of the studio as he and I continued shouting at each other,” she wrote.
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Franklin later had this to say to Jet Magazine about her relationship with Vandross:
“When I say this, I say it with respect and I say it in a positive vein. Luther and I really do like each other. We have a lot of mutual respect even when we are not talking, we are still cool. I guess you could call it Aries butting heads because he’s an Aries too. We are very opinionated people.”
She then added a bit of shade: “He was lying at the base of his radio listening to me. I wasn’t lying there listening to him, LOL.”
DailyMail once quoted Luther as stating “The Aretha I had heard throughout my entire childhood on the radio — warm and down-home — wasn’t the Aretha I heard on the phone.”
The two powerhouses eventually made nice with each other and recorded a hit record. They also became great friends until he passed in 2005.
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