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 last year.

That performance is the subject of the critically acclaimed new documentary Amazing Grace, which is screening exclusively at The Projector. Look out for cameos by The Rolling Stones' frontman and drummer Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts respectively, who were in the audience because they happened to be in town recording the band's future gospel-influenced blues-rock masterpiece Exile on Main Street.