Back in late 2000s, I was DJing at a wedding and Gladys Knight was my warm up act! Yep, it’s true. The father of the bride was a record label owner who had worked with Gladys in the late 70s and had her flown in to perform the first dance for his daughter and new son-in-law and was flown out just as quickly. So, I spent her entire performance staring at her backside as I was set up behind her and had the interesting task of having to follow her performance, but I managed it and the great knight was had by all.
Anyway, Gladys is 79 years old this week and still sounds as good as she did 30/40+ years ago. She joined the Motown stable in 1966 and left seven years later to join the Buddah label and then, four years later joined CBS.
Her only hit that didn’t credit her backing group, The Pips, was the 1989 James Bond film theme Licence to Kill, but I thought you should enjoy her live performance of the song she performed on the one and only (k) night I worked with her.