Welcome to the New York Times podcast, you're deeply unsatisfied and do right source of music,

news and criticism. I'm your host, John Carra Monica.

You've been think, think, think, thing about what you're trying to do to me.

Think, think, that your mind, gonna let yourself be free.

Let's go back, let's go back, let's go back, let's go back, let's go back,

let's go on the way back when.

I didn't even know you you couldn't have been too much

more than 10. Just now. I ain't no psychiatry, so there ain't no doctor with

the grease, but it don't take too much time to see what you're doing to me.

You better think, think, think about what you're trying to do to me.

Yeah, me, think, think, that your man, go let yourself be free.

Oh, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom,

freedom, freedom, freedom,

and freedom, and freedom.

That is Think by Aretha Franklin.

Aretha Franklin passed away. She died this week at 76 and on this week's

podcast we're going to pay tribute to the Queen of Soul and the Queen of very

very much more than that. First I'm joined by over the phone, John Prellas,

chief pop music critic of the New York Times. Hey John.

Hey, there. And in the studio, Live and Direct, in a beautiful blazer and lovely shoes, Wesley Morris Critic

at Large in the New York Times.

Hi, you guys.

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