Before that last performance, Soul Train host Don Cornelius said it well:

I consider myself very fortunate to have lived on Earth during her career. She deserves all the titles she has been given, for she is the queen, she is the crown princess, she is Lady Soul. She is the unbelievable Aretha Franklin.

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