Truly Amazing

In 1972, Aretha Franklin performed at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles with the Southern Californian Community Choir. The set comprised gospel classics including a ten-minute rendition of Amazing Grace and a 'live' album named after the song was released the same year.

Filmmaker Sydney Pollack (Tootsie) captured the show on camera but the footage was kept away in a vault for more than four decades before Franklin's family finally decided to allow it to see the light of day la…