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On the day of Curtis ' funeral Atlantic Records closed their offices.

Jesse Jackson administered the service and as the mourners filed in, Curtis's band ' The Kingpins ' played " Soul Serenade ".

Amongst those attending were his close family, sister Josephine Ousley Allen, other family members, Aretha Franklin, Cissy Houston, Brook Benton and Duane Allman.

Franklin sang the closing spiritual " Never Grow Old " and Stevie Wonder performed " Abraham, Martin and John and now King Curtis ".