Leonard Pitts: Down memory lane with Stevie, Aretha and Gladys

Boy, this takes me back.That’s what I kept thinking the other night as I paged through a new coffee table book, “Soul R&B Funk: Photographs 1972-1982” by my friend and former colleague Bruce W. Talamon. Another friend had sent it for my birthday — thanks, Herschel — and I opened it up, intending to spend a couple minutes with it. Next thing I knew, a couple hours had passed.I had spent them in the company of Marvin and Stevie, Gladys and Aretha, the O’Jays