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She lived many lives. long before i met her, she had had her great success on atlantic records. i met her when she -- when clive davis brought her to arista records around the mid '80s. that's when i first met her. she loved the second career that she had. the only thing is that she wouldn't fly. i would say to her, people are calling all the time saying, can you bring aretha to europe? we will pay her a million dollars a show. she would say, i will do that. i will say, really? well, there must be some kind of amphibious machine we could get into. >> roger, stick with me. let me bring don lemo...

>> she was larger than her music. can't say that about many performances. the music speaks for itself. she was larger than her music. she was a great american, very smart. she stood up for lots of things. but the way she sang and the way she moved people, you didn't need to use her last name. all you had to say was aretha, you knew who she was. she was quirky. she wouldn't fly. >> right. >> she wouldn't stay in a building over eight floors. in other words -- when we booked her on cnn, our studio was on the ninth floor, and so she wouldn't stay on the ninth floor so we had to interview her at t...