Author Topic: Aretha Franklin has passed  (Read 1104 times)

David Houck

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Re: Aretha Franklin has passed
« Reply #15 on: August 16, 2018, 05:40:33 PM »
From the Rolling Stone article ...

"... Franklin was also up for challenges. She stepped in to sing “Nessun Dorma” at the 1998 Grammys when Luciano Pavarotti was unable to perform, a trick few other non-opera singers would even have dared."

Here is that event - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tsYKhGu--U

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Re: Aretha Franklin has passed
« Reply #16 on: August 16, 2018, 07:29:24 PM »
I have always loved this. I know she's in that better place.


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Re: Aretha Franklin has passed
« Reply #17 on: August 16, 2018, 07:31:26 PM »
From Billy Preston (warning, language!):

“She can be hiding out in her house in Detroit for years. She can go decades without taking a plane or flying off to Europe. She can cancel half her gigs and infuriate every producer and promoter in the country. She can sing all kinds of jive-*ss songs that are beneath her. She can go into her diva act and turn off the world. But on any given night, when that lady sits down at the piano and gets her body and soul all over some righteous song, she’ll scare the sh*t out of you. And you’ll know—you’ll swear—that she’s still the best f*ckin’ singer this f*cked-up country has ever produced.”

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Re: Aretha Franklin has passed
« Reply #18 on: August 16, 2018, 08:06:47 PM »
I have always loved this. I know she's in that better place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb7D-W-QW-8

Wow!  Aretha and Mavis: Were there ever 2 more powerful voices???

Peter (Who must admit that spending his entire adult life as an atheist has not killed his love for gospel music)
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Re: Aretha Franklin has passed
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Re: Aretha Franklin has passed
« Reply #21 on: August 16, 2018, 09:20:29 PM »
Trying not to be sad over this, and just remembering all the times she made my ears and heart feel amazing, and will continue to do so.

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Re: Aretha Franklin has passed
« Reply #22 on: August 17, 2018, 07:40:27 PM »
So glad to hear she passed at home... surrounded by love for sure.