Chicago Tribune

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Aretha Franklin, who died Thursday at 76, was a once-in-a-generation singer. She was the Queen of Soul, but she also ventured into - and mastered - virtually every style of music, from jazz and classical to rhythm and blues. Here were her essential r

Entertainment Weekly

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1 / Upcoming Aretha Franklin biopic (2 words) 5 / Star of 1 across, Jennifer ______ 9 / Dieting stat (abbr.) 11 / Aretha’s father, who had “the million-dollar voice” 12 / 1978 biopic of the singer of “Not Fade Away” 13 / Rocker ______ Cocker 14 / Ind

Apple Magazine

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At 74, the Queen of Soul has decided to take it a little easier. Aretha Franklin is planning to retire this year, she told Detroit TV station WDIV Local 4, the city’s NBC affiliate. The singer says she will make one more album, with several tracks pr

The Atlantic

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If the Great Migration could be condensed into a single personal narrative, it might be Aretha Franklin’s. Born in 1942 in Memphis, Tennessee, to a traveling, womanizing preacher and a gospel-singing mother, Franklin was whisked north by the same cur

NPR

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Updated at 12:10 p.m. ET Aretha Franklin, the "Queen of Soul," died Thursday in her home city of Detroit after battling pancreatic cancer of the neuroendocrine type. Her death was confirmed by her publicist, Gwendolyn Quinn. She was 76. Franklin sold

NPR

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The Queen of Soul rarely gave interviews, so we were delighted when she sat down for a Fresh Air interview in 1999.

NPR

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A small, sterling selection of the best stripped-down performances the Queen of Soul delivered in her later years.

Los Angeles Times

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As prolific as she was influential, Aretha Franklin released dozens of albums in a career that lasted longer than half a century. Here are five of her most important: "Laughing on the Outside," 1963 With a seemingly arbitrary mix of pop, jazz and R&B

Los Angeles Times

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With her place as a hit-making force cemented decades ago, music industry greats stepped up to remember Aretha Franklin on Thursday after her death. Some, such as Clive Davis, said their relationship went beyond business - to friendship. "She was tru

TechLife News

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At 74, the Queen of Soul has decided to take it a little easier. Aretha Franklin is planning to retire this year, she told Detroit TV station WDIV Local 4, the city’s NBC affiliate. The singer says she will make one more album, with several tracks pr

NPR

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Aretha Franklin is dead and we still, 50 years after she made her artistic and commercial breakthrough, can scarcely comprehend the still-shocking power of her singing. Aretha Franklin must have understood early on what fame was like, as the daughte

NPR

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The late, great Aretha Franklin delivered world-class soul ballads like "Ain't No Way" that plumbed the depths of romantic experience and made it feel as if your heart had been squeezed dry like a defeated sponge. Her brazen self-determination anthem

NPR

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Staff members of NPR remember the Queen of Soul beyond her No. 1 hits. These are Aretha Franklin's most essential deep cuts.

Tribune Content Agency Opinions

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The Queen is dead. Aretha Louise Franklin, a preacher's daughter from Memphis who was broadly acclaimed the greatest singer of the last half-century -- indeed, one of the greatest singers in the history of American song -- died of pancreatic cancer T

Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES - Following some deeply troubling years, the overall outlook, the chief executive pronounced on Tuesday, is strong. He also voiced optimism at some encouraging signs of unity he claims to have witnessed across the fiercely competitive and

UNCUT

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1 Pest 2 Badibaba 3 Jazz (In The Supermarket) 4 Once Again 5P.T.S.Tea 6 Sad Cowboy 7 The Crack 8 Closing In 9 Anxiety Feels 10 They Bite On You 11 Bang 12 Where Do We Go From Here? 13 A-Men Produced by: Dan Carey Recorded

Film Comment

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Unless you were alive in the 1960s and ’70s, you probably haven’t spent much time with young Aretha Franklin as a screen presence, looking fly in the bouffants and afros of her peak stardom, sounding like the Holy Ghost touching down in your living r

TechLife News

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“Queen of Soul” Aretha Franklin and Nobel laureate and “Beloved” author Toni Morrison will be inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame as part of a posthumous class of Black honorees that also includes Henrietta Lacks, whose cells were widely

Los Angeles Times

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Aretha Franklin, one of the most popular and influential musicians of all time, is "gravely ill," according to WDIV Local 4 in Detroit, her hometown. On Monday morning, the outlet reported that the 76-year-old singer was requesting prayers in the fac

Scootering

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I first came across Seratones when they were a fairly average new wave influenced band with a brilliantly soulful singer. Sadly, at that point they weren’t anything special. A change of emphasis and line-up though, and they’re a completely different

Apple Magazine

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“Queen of Soul” Aretha Franklin and Nobel laureate and “Beloved” author Toni Morrison will be inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame as part of a posthumous class of Black honorees that also includes Henrietta Lacks, whose cells were widely

Urbis

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16 February/Auckland Marlon Williams and his band The Yarra Benders will be performing for one night only at Villa Maria Winery in Mangere in February, with a set of songs from their hit album Make Way for Love, re-imagined for the tuneful accompanim

NPR

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Topped by Otis Redding's "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay," the R&B Top 20 from the week of March 30, 1968 shows American soul flourishing in all directions.

NPR

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Many of the performers and speakers, from Chaka Khan and Jennifer Hudson to Rev. William Barber and author Michael Eric Dyson, underscored the church legacy in the Queen of Soul's voice and civil rights work.

Hi-Fi Choice

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CD The Last Music Company PENN’S GOT FORM. Back in the sixties he was bashing out hits for Aretha, Janis and Percy Sledge, and now he’s back with his first new music in 26 years, and there’s some good stuff here. Clean Slate is a great example of his

TechLife News

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At 74, the Queen of Soul has decided to take it a little easier. Aretha Franklin is planning to retire this year, she told Detroit TV station WDIV Local 4, the city’s NBC affiliate. The singer says she will make one more album, with several tracks pr

Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES - As usual, Clive Davis had no trouble filling his pre-Grammy gala with stars. The annual dinner and show, which the veteran record executive co-presents with the Recording Academy, is well known for its appearances by music's biggest nam

Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES - To honor Aretha Franklin's roots in gospel music, Shirley Caesar sang "Mary, Don't You Weep." To showcase Franklin's rhythmic flair, Janelle Monae did "Rock Steady." And to highlight the late icon's important role in the fight for civil

Foxtel Magazine

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SNEAK PEEK First there was Albert Einstein, then there was Pablo Picasso. Next up, National Geographic is turning the spotlight on another genius and one of the most iconic singers of all time: Aretha Franklin. When the third instalment in the script

NPR

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It is, indeed, "the season" — but, along with the stress and the dark and the cold, come bright, healing moments like this one, from 2015.