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Aretha Franklin

October 2023

  • Patti Smith in concert, Royal Albert Hall, London, UK - 04 Oct 2021<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Michal Augustini/REX/Shutterstock (12524030r) Patti Smith Patti Smith in concert, Royal Albert Hall, London, UK - 04 Oct 2021

    Holding the Note by David Remnick review – erudite portraits of musical greats

  • Stop Making Sense

    Ranked
    The 20 greatest concert films – ranked!

July 2023

  • Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga dance as they perform Cheek to Cheek at the 57th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California February 8, 2015. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson (UNITED STATES - TAGS: ENTERTAINMENT) (GRAMMYS-SHOW)<br>2D0H2P6 Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga dance as they perform Cheek to Cheek at the 57th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California February 8, 2015. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson (UNITED STATES - TAGS: ENTERTAINMENT) (GRAMMYS-SHOW)

    From Frank Sinatra to Lady Gaga: Tony Bennett’s greatest duets

    The legendary singer’s death leaves behind a career filled with captivating duets alongside contemporaries and younger stars
  • Kecalf Franklin, 53, the youngest son of Aretha Franklin, points to enlarged documents during jury trial over Aretha Franklin’s wills.

    Handwritten document found in Aretha Franklin’s couch is valid will, jury rules

    Ruling comes in dispute over validity of documents left by late singer from 2010 and 2014 which pitted sons against each other
  • Aretha Franklin appearing at an episode of American Idol in 2015.

    Aretha Franklin’s children to contest her will in court

    Three of Franklin’s four children are disputing the validity of documents left by the late singer in 2010 and 2014

May 2023

  • Aretha Franklin enjoying the London weather

    Crossword blog
    Crossword blog: what do Aretha and Jethro have in common?

    Names suggesting nobility and excellence in our pick of the best of the broadsheets’ cryptic clues

April 2023

  • Smokey Robinson

    ‘At 83, I still feel sexual’: Smokey Robinson on love, joy, drugs, Motown – and his affair with Diana Ross

    The music legend has just released a fabulously filthy album. He looks back on his incredible life in songwriting, and his friendships with Marvin Gaye, Berry Gordy and Aretha Franklin

January 2023

  • Zoe Williams

    The sheer joy of Jamie Lee Curtis cheering Michelle Yeoh sets a new bar for female best-friendship

    Zoe Williams
    A viral image of the actor celebrating at the Golden Globes shows a thrilling act of sisterly solidarity, says the Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

September 2022

  • Jazz artist and show host Ramsey Lewis warms up before taping the Legends of Jazz with Ramsey Lewis show in 2005.

    Renowned jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis dies aged 87

  • Aretha Franklin Live In London<br>American soul singer Aretha Franklin (1942-2018) performs live on stage at the New Victoria Theatre in London in 1980. (Photo by David Redfern/Redferns)

    FBI tracked Aretha Franklin’s civil rights activism, declassified file shows

September 2021

  • Jennifer Hudson, left, as Aretha Franklin with Mary J Blige as Dinah Washington in Respect.

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    Respect review – an overly reverential homage to Aretha

  • Jennifer Hudson and Forest Whitaker in Respect

    Respect review – one-note Aretha Franklin chronicle follows every biopic beat

August 2021

  • Jennifer Hudson stars as Aretha Franklin in Respect.

    Respect review – Aretha Franklin biopic sings the same old tune

    Jennifer Hudson tries her best with a disappointingly rote retread through cliches of a well-worn genre

March 2021

  • Cynthia Erivo portrays Aretha Franklin in a scene from the National Geographic miniseries “Genius: Aretha.” (Richard DuCree/National Geographic via AP)

    TV review
    Genius: Aretha review – clunky Franklin biopic needs more respect

  • Aretha Franklin performing during the BET Honors ceremony, 14 January 2012.

    Aretha Franklin: newly discovered will draft complicates estate dispute

January 2021

  • Carolyn Franklin in 1969.

    'A legend in her own right': Carolyn Franklin, Aretha's forgotten sister

  • Aretha Franklin.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: the gospel according to Aretha Franklin

August 2020

  • Bettye LaVette

    Bettye LaVette: 'James Brown would have fired Kanye West 12 times'

    The forgotten woman of Detroit’s soul explosion, Bettye LaVette reveals why she was too lewd for Berry Gordy, her rivalry with Aretha Franklin and why she loves Kamala Harris

June 2020

  • Left to right from top: Issac Hayes, the Band and guests, Beyoncé, Aretha Franklin, David Byrne, Janis Joplin, Depeche Mode, Jimi Hendrix, Martin Scorsese and Robbie Robertson.

    From the Band to Beyoncé: concert films to fill the live music black hole

  • Military on the streets of Chicago in The Blues Brothers

    The classic film I've never seen
    I've never seen ... The Blues Brothers

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