Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, February 11, 1994                   TAG: 9402110103
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: NEW YORK                                 LENGTH: Short

LIFE ISN'T ALL HIGH NOTES FOR THE QUEEN OF SOUL

Aretha Franklin may have 15 Grammys, 58 albums and 17 Top 10 singles, but she's not too busy to do a little work around the house.

"Every now and then I have to bust a few suds, yeah," she says in the February issue of Vanity Fair, due on newsstands Monday.

Grocery shopping isn't unusual either, when she's home in Detroit. "Farmer Jack, on 12th Street, is exactly where I get my meat," she said.

Meanwhile, she's stopped chain-smoking, and the high notes in "A Deeper Love," her newest single, are clearer than ever.

Still, the artist - who is due to receive a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award this year - stops being ordinary at a point.

"I was looking in the mirror earlier and I said, `You know, the brother that gets me is going to get one hell of a fabulous woman.' "