It’s fitting that the most amazing moment of Aretha Franklin’s long-unreleased ... of her career — is wretch-saving stuff. Gospel great the Rev. James Cleveland, who presides over the ...

It’s a smoldering merger of gospel and R&B with a performance from 24-year-old Franklin that defines passion. “Call Me”: Perhaps the sweetest of Aretha’s great love songs. Gorgeous and ...

Next up: Patrick Doyle on her gospel masterpiece. Over two days in January 1972, a 29-year-old Aretha Franklin went back to where it all started. In the midst of a remarkable career turnaround ...

On Aretha Franklin’s best-selling album ... whom she adored. He often hosted great gospel and secular singers in their home, including gospel pioneers Mahalia Jackson, Clara Ward and ...

But no one could compete with the queen, the crowned deity of divas, Aretha ... gospel she delivered that night: Thou shalt have no divas before me. That night, Franklin delivered one of the ...

A representative for Aretha Franklin confirmed ... to simply declare her the greatest singer of our time. She is Lady Soul; she is blues personified; she sings the gospel from a place so deep ...

Aretha Franklin, whose gospel-rooted singing and bluesy yet expansive ... “What made her talent so great was her capacity to live what she sang,” Franklin said in a statement Thursday.

“Bridge Over Troubled Water,” from Aretha’s Greatest Hits (1970) There was gospel hidden deep within this Simon and Garfunkel classic; Franklin brought it out and sent it flying back to the ...

She first recorded the song on Valentine's Day in 1967 when she was still a relatively unknown gospel ... greatest songs of all time. But here's the thing: "Respect" wasn't entirely Aretha ...

Aretha Franklin may have died today aged 76 but the music of “Lady Soul” will long be celebrated. The songs in the following selection of greatest ... Right Man”, a gospel influenced plea ...