Aretha Franklin on The Cliff Richard Show in 1970

Aretha Franklin performs I Say a Little Prayer on The Cliff Richard Show in August 1970. Originally written for Dionne Warwick, the song appeared on Franklin's 1968 album Aretha Now. The Years and ... Read More

Dionne Warwick

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Aretha Franklin in her own words

We look back at the queen of soul's interviews between 1987 - 2017. This video has been optimised for mobile viewing on the BBC News app. The BBC News app is available from the Apple App Store for ... Read More

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The aircraft carrying the Grammy winner and others landed at Van Nuys Airport. Courtroom testimony from an assistant director in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin is ... Read More

Aretha Franklin Estate Settles IRS Tax Claims

I focus on taxes and litigation. But the tax dispute for Aretha Franklin was quite different, since the IRS was after income taxes they claimed the Queen of Soul had not paid in numerous years ... Read More

Aretha Franklin

The definitive female soul singer of the '60s, a symbol of black pride, and one of the most influential voices in the history of popular music, Aretha Franklin brought "black" music to an entirely ... Read More

Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre box office opening for season on Friday

Tickets for nine summer concerts at Detroit's Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre go on sale Friday when the riverfront venue's box office opens for the season. Among those shows going on sale are ... Read More

Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin is best known for being a soul singer and having amazing hits like “Respect” and “Think”. Grace Franklin is considering the future of her singing career and contemplating a ... Read More

Dionne Warwick

Dionne Warwick is a six-time Grammy Award-winning music legend who has earned more than 75 charted hit songs and sold over 100 million records. She was discovered by Burt Bacharach and Hal David ... Read More

Aretha Franklin

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Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin was an American singer and songwriter known as "The Queen of Soul." Franklin began singing in her father's congregation as a young girl and released her first album, Songs of Faith ... Read More

Aretha Franklin

What a jagged image we use for women who achieve greatly, defining accomplishment in terms of the barrier rather than the triumph. There she is up where the air is thin, where men still outnumber ... Read More