& #8220;I think of Aretha as Our Lady of Mysterious Sorrows,” Jerry Wexler once said of Aretha Franklin. Wexler was the Atlantic Records producer who, in 1967, helped raise the singer to her sudden and incomparable soul heights. “Her eyes are incredible, luminous eyes covering inexplicable pain. Her depressions could …
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Less than a month after Aretha Franklin succumbed to pancreatic cancer, her friend Stevie Wonder paid tribute to the Queen of Soul at Friday night’s Stand Up to Cancer telethon. Wonder’s performance can be viewed at the 56-minute mark of the above video. “You know, I believe that if we …
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Last November, Aretha Franklin took the stage at Elton John’s annual AIDS Foundation gala, delivering what would be her final public performance. The Queen of Soul, who died Thursday from pancreatic cancer, closed the show with a selection of songs from her back catalogue, including her 1968 hit, “I Say …
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