Results for Aretha FranklinAretha Franklin demands R-E-S-P-E-C-T and she gets it. A giant in soul music, she drives her songs with the angst, love and anger of womanly strength and conviction. The Queen of Soul was discovered by John Hammond in the early 60's and signed with Columbia Records, who tried to breed her as a jazz singer. It was only after she went over to Atlantic in 1967 that her charisma was unleashed, and it was here that she unloaded hit after hit, among them "Chain of Fools", "You Make Me Feel (Like a Natural Woman)" and her signature tune, Otis Redding's "Respect." A favorite of Bill Graham's, she exceeded her "LadySoul" persona, delivering to the masses gospel, blues, jazz, pop, rock and even opera music. After Aretha left Atlantic Records, her critical success waned, but she's continued to perform and record with passion and charisma that few artists have ever been able to replicate. In 2001, she was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame, and she's won 17 Grammy Awards to date.“more
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by Carol Caffin•May 1, 2009•
"The 14-time Grammy winner is more than just a master of recorded sound; he’s a virtuoso musician and a technological innovator."
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by Dai Griffiths•April 7, 2009•
"That depends on people playing the tracks from OK Computer and, if the album is to survive as an album, still playing it as an album."
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by Franklin Bruno•January 14, 2009•
Costello’s ungentle judgment of Americans raised the stakes: “We hate you. We only come here for the money... We’re the original white boys, you’re the colonials.” The May 5, 1979 RS “Random Notes” item, reported from information offered by Bramlett, gives this as a general pronouncement to the “barroom crowd”; in other reconstructions, it is a response to a fan’s questions. Either way, this is fairly self-damning as insults go, splitting the difference
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by Denise Sullivan•January 14, 2009•
It's not as if I expected the film to imitate life exactly, but I hadn't anticipated just how unlike the story as it is generally known it would be.
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by Denise Sullivan•November 5, 2008•
It was writer and father of England's conservative party, Benjamin Disraeli, who is credited with the phrase, "Change is inevitable," an axiom I find rings of some truth, some of the time.
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