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    'Queen of Soul' Aretha Franklin dies at 76.....

    Aretha Franklin, the undisputed "Queen of Soul" who sang with matchless style on such classics as "Think," ''I Say a Little Prayer" and her signature song, "Respect," and stood as a cultural icon around the globe, has died at age 76 from advanced pancreatic cancer.

    Publicist Gwendolyn Quinn tells The Associated Press through a family statement that Franklin died Thursday at 9:50 a.m. at her home in Detroit. The statement said "Franklin's official cause of death was due to advance pancreatic cancer of the neuroendocrine type, which was confirmed by Franklin's oncologist, Dr. Philip Phillips of Karmanos Cancer Institute" in Detroit.


    A professional singer and accomplished pianist by her late teens, a superstar by her mid-20s, Franklin had long ago settled any arguments over who was the greatest popular vocalist of her time. Her gifts, natural and acquired, were a multi-octave mezzo-soprano, gospel passion and training worthy of a preacher's daughter, taste sophisticated and eccentric, and the courage to channel private pain into liberating song.


    She recorded hundreds of tracks and had dozens of hits over the span of a half century, including 20 that reached No. 1 on the R&B charts. But her reputation was defined by an extraordinary run of top 10 smashes in the late 1960s, from the morning-after bliss of "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman," to the wised-up "Chain of Fools" to her unstoppable call for "Respect."


    Her records sold millions of copies and the music industry couldn't honor her enough. Franklin won 18 Grammy awards. In 1987, she became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.....snip~


    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/n...lin-dies-at-76






    R.I.P. Aretha Franklin.
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    I remember the to-do about Aretha Franklin in the 60's and how she was queen of this that and the other, and I have to say that when I heard her, I was extremely disappointed.

    RIP anyway. She earned what she got.

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    R.i.p.
    Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect. -- Woody Hayes​

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    I'd say she had a good run.

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    R-e-s-p-e-c-t ................. RIP
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    That's a bit eerie as my band and I were discussing her current health and are planning a tribute concert for the end of November.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MisterVeritis View Post
    Every day I check with Drudge to see if the evil John McCain is dead. Every day I am disappointed.
    Completely off topic, but made me chuckle anyway

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    Funny how things work out sometimes...

    Aretha Franklin Inadvertently Recorded One Of Vietnam’s Best Protest Songs
    [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Arial][B] 17 Aug 2018 - Aretha Franklin, the legendary singer whose full-throated vocals earned her the undisputed title of "Queen of Soul," died on Thursday of pancreatic cancer at the age of 76, her publicist announced.[quote]


    "In one of the darkest moments of our lives, we are not able to find the appropriate words to express the pain in our heart," Franklin's family said in a statement to the Associated Press. "We have lost the matriarch and rock of our family. The love she had for her children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and cousins knew no bounds." Franklin's legacy spanned more than a half-century of groundbreaking achievements in music. Her hits "Respect" and "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" demolished the popular charts and reshaped the music landscape with anthemic, powerful vocals. Her songs earned her the honor of the first female inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame in 1987, and she inspired generations of would-be divas who came after her.



    In this Jan. 28, 1972 file photo, vocalist Aretha Franklin sings a few notes into microphone. Franklin died Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018 at her home in Detroit. She was 76.



    But what many modern devotees to the Queen of Soul don't realize is that Franklin happened to give the United States one of the most subtle protest songs of the Vietnam War — even if she didn't realize it at the time. The lyrics of Franklin's 1967 single "Chain Of Fools," released during the height of Vietnam, are relatively simple: the singer, after five long years of devotion to her would-be man, finds out she's "just a link in your chain" to be used and abused:


    For five long years


    I thought you were my man


    But I found out, I'm just a link in your chain


    Oh, you got me where you want me


    I ain't nothin' but your fool


    Ya treated me mean


    Oh you treated me cruel


    "Chain Of Fools" started out as an anthem of female independence. But after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, according to Craig Werner and Doug Bradley, authors of "We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War," African-American veterans returning home from Vietnam "transformed it into an angry rejection of the chain of command." Here's how Bradley recently described the song's political impact for PBS: Marcus Miller, an infantryman in the Mekong Delta during the war, said the song referred to the military "chain of command." And David Browne, who'd grown up in Memphis and served with the 101st Airborne, recalls that when he first learned of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., while a soldier in Vietnam, the only thing that stopped him from "killing the first honky I met" was listening to Chain of Fools. "I thought, that's my story," and that chain is gonna break …




    But Franklin's music wasn't about anger and rage — it was a source of comfort, a sliver of home, for the thousands of U.S. service-members deployed overseas to Vietnam. [B]"Although songs like 'Chain of Fools' and 'Respect' didn't directly address the war, tapes of [Franklin's] music became as essential a part of field kits as C-rations and morphine,"

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