I still perform it in all my shows. I'll do it as long as I'm breathing. I'm so proud it has stood the test of time.

When the night has come and the land is dark and the moon is the only light we see. No, I won't be afraid, no, I won't be afraid, just as long as you stand, stand by me.

It's a different thing when you go into a studio and you record with the intent of going somewhere and you're marketing yourself for that direction.

Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did.

Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called Ben E. King were then aware of the name associated with the song. That gave a tremendous lift to me as an artist.

And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street.

A singer has got a different attitude, they're they're so whacked out they don't know what they're doing half the time. Singers, they don't, they're spoiled too.