1. Ritz, Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin.
2. Ward-Royster and Rose, How I Got Over: Clara Ward and the World-Famous Ward Singers.
3. Ibid.
4. Flanagan, Written in My Soul: Conversations with Rock’s Great Songwriters.
5. Patrick Boyle, “Aretha’s Greatest Albums: Amazing Grace,” Rolling Stone, August 22, 2018, https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/aretha-franklin-amazing-grace-gospel-album-714487/.
6. Ritz, Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Gerrick D. Kennedy, “Quincy Jones on Aretha Franklin: She Turned This Country Upside Down,” Los Angeles Times, August 22, 2018, https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-quincy-jones-aretha-franklin-20180822-story.html.
10. Roy Trakin, “Aretha’s Biographer on the Complicated Woman Behind the Diva: ‘She Tried to Paint a Picture of a Happy Life,’” Variety, August 16, 2018, https://variety.com/2018/music/news/arethas-biographer-on-the-complicated-woman-behind-the-diva-she-tried-to-paint-a-picture-of-a-happy-life-1202907825/.
11. Ritz, Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin.
12. Douglas Wolk, “What It Is, What It Is: When Motown Left Detroit,” Red Bull Music Academy Daily, May 23, 2016, https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2016/05/when-motown-left-detroit-feature.
13. Ibid.
14. Michael Thomas, “Diana Ross Goes from Riches to Rags,” Rolling Stone, February 1, 1973, https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/diana-ross-goes-from-riches-to-rags-165274/.
15. Taraborrelli, Call Her Miss Ross: The Unauthorized Biography of Diana Ross.
16. Ibid.
17. Gordy, To Be Loved: The Music, the Magic, the Memories of Motown: An Autobiography.
18. Taraborrelli, Call Her Miss Ross: The Unauthorized Biography of Diana Ross.
19. Gaye and Ritz, After the Dance: My Life with Marvin Gaye.
20. Taraborrelli, Call Her Miss Ross: The Unauthorized Biography of Diana Ross.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. Ritz, Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye.
24. Ibid.
25. Taraborrelli, Call Her Miss Ross: The Unauthorized Biography of Diana Ross.
26. Gaye and Ritz, After the Dance: My Life with Marvin Gaye.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid.
29. “Let’s Get It On,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_Get_It_On_(song)#cite_ref-edm7_1-0.
30. Ritz, Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye.
31. Gaye and Ritz, After the Dance: My Life with Marvin Gaye.
32. Ribowsky, Signed, Sealed, and Delivered: The Soulful Journey of Stevie Wonder.
33. Ibid.
34. Jeff Giles, “Stevie Wonder Stole a No. 1 Hit from Jeff Beck,” Ultimate Classic Rock, https://ultimateclassicrock.com/stevie-wonder-jeff-beck-superstition/.
35. “Song on Song: Superstition,” BBC, http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/soldonsong/songlibrary/superstition.shtml.