In 1971, in the afterglow of the counterculture and civil rights movements of the '60s, Aretha Franklin performed three ...

Aretha Franklin, live at the piano, at the pinnacle of her powers. That summation should motivate just about anyone with an interest in popular music over the last 60 years to ease on down to the ...

In 1972, Aretha Franklin who had by then had some 11 consecutive hits including, “Respect,” “Think” and “(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman” decided to record a live gospel album. Over two nights ...

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DETROIT (AP) - Mourners began pouring into Detroit's Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History on Tuesday to pay their final respects to Aretha Franklin. They approached her gold-plated ...

LOS ANGELES — One of Hollywood’s holy grails, “Amazing Grace,” capturing what is considered to be Aretha Franklin’s most transcendent gospel performance, is headed to theaters 46 years after it was ...

The MSG event, held Aug. 28, 1960, was the second annual gathering of Black church groups organized by Joe Bostic of station WLIB; it drew 10,000 audience members. Other performers included Sister ...

WHAT'S ALL this jazz. about soul? Well, Lady Soul has the nitty-gritty answer. For, there is no denying that gospel gut-singing moved uptown with Aretha Franklin and her penetrating wail of truth.

The Charleston Gospel Choir offers its "Queen of Soul and Gospel: A Tribute to Aretha Franklin" as a part of this year's Piccolo Spoleto Festival. Credit: Taylor Czerwinski After a first performance ...

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To celebrate Variety’s 115th anniversary, we went to the archives to see how some of Hollywood’s biggest stars first landed in the pages of our magazine. Read more from the archives here. On Aug. 31, ...