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...Their first song was “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”, a hit for Gladys Knight and the Pips in 1967....
...Knight – gigs that he used to fund his art school education....
...Wonder and Simone are joined by performers including BB King, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Hugh Masekela and Sly and the Family Stone. None is on less than jaw-dropping form....
...It was this version that Gladys Knight was to hear soon afterwards....
...Sue Norris on how Cissy Houston and Gladys Knight respectively transformed the sound, and meaning, of Jim Weatherly's country number....
...Eventually “Grapevine” was released by Gladys Knight and the Pips in 1967 in a new, more up-tempo arrangement. It was a hit, reaching number two in the charts....
...My God, but there are a lot of them, from “Reet Petite” via “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” (both Gaye and Gladys Knight versions) to “Super Freak”: even the programme grows coy, but the show seems to...
...Then: “Gladys Knight. I had the chance once, and I couldn’t do it. I banged my head against the wall for two weeks after.”...
...If Gladys Knight gives me a compliment I feel like I’ve done well. Have you ever taken an IQ test? Yes but I don’t think it worked, because it came out really high....
...She listened to Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, Hugh Masekela, Sibongile Khumalo, and was a great fan of Miriam Makeba. She was a domestic worker, the only person in our family who worked....
...Blige recites their names like a sacred litany: “Aretha [Franklin], Gladys [Knight], Mavis [Staples], Betty Wright, Chaka Khan . . . ” Her break came when she recorded a version of an Anita Baker song and...
...Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight …and some of them cried just because they have felt sorry for me and the legacy and all that with all of the stuff that they knew was not accurate,” says Gordy....
...The Beatles’ “Blackbird” becomes a gentle country hoedown, Randy Newman’s “Feels Like Home” swaps Newman’s crumbly New Orleans vocal for Diamond’s velvety Brill Building tones, and Gladys Knight and The...
...Peter Farnan’s (all-white) backing band features some sterling electric piano work from Simon Burke on numbers such as “I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)” and the Gladys Knight-style arrangement of...
..., they were handsomely orchestrated but soporific covers of other people’s songs, such as Gladys Knight and The Pips’ “Midnight Train to Georgia”....
...Font number four is mentioned in the title of a Gladys Knight song and reputedly took its name from the location of supposed extra-terrestrial finds....
...Knight’s “Midnight Train to Georgia”, Elton’s “Saturday Nights For Fighting”, T....
...When her mother and her aunt were recently playing their old vinyl LP collection for her – Jimi Hendrix, Alice Cooper, Led Zeppelin, Bad Company, Cat Stevens, Gladys Knight – Christina busied herself writing...
...Pandora said she would also enjoy various Sixties girl groups and Seventies soul singers: Gladys Knight and the Pips, Carla Thomas and The Velvelettes. The service can be a uncanny....
...Viewers will see a personalised attack on Michael Howard's record in the last Conservative administration and in the present shadow cabinet, set to Gladys Knight singing The Way We Were....
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