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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2018-08-16 18:41 by jumpontopofmebaby.
Same here. Missed opportunity.
Is there any cure for pancreatic cancer? She was only 76.
So true! RIP, Aretha!
And we all can have a look into this:
[www.youtube.com]
Ruediger
Thanks for that Ruediger.
Immediately after that video, this was next in the queue - a great interview and overview of her career from 1990 with Ed Bradley from 60 Minutes:
The Aretha Franklin 60 Minutes Interview
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Rip this joint, gonna save your soul, round and round and round we go......
This one is absolutely breathtaking...
Talk about your favorite band.
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Re: OT-Aretha passes
Posted by:
dmay
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Date: August 16, 2018 18:21
A great loss to the world of music. R.I.P., Miss Franklin. Many of us will be listening to your soul today.
Re: OT-Aretha passes
Posted by:
franzk
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Date: August 16, 2018 18:31
May the good Lord shine a light on you
Re: OT-Aretha passes
Posted by:
jumpontopofmebaby
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Date: August 16, 2018 18:39
Thank you...but it says "video unavailable in your country"
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2018-08-16 18:41 by jumpontopofmebaby.
Re: OT-Aretha passes
Posted by:
filstan
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Date: August 16, 2018 18:43
A true musical giant is gone. Her golden era quality remains unchallenged. The true queen of soul.
Re: OT-Aretha passes
Posted by:
Stones726
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Date: August 16, 2018 18:44
R.I.P. Aretha Queen of Soul. As my ex-Irish girlfriend would say "she had a rare pair of lungs"
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Posted by:
Ladykiller
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Date: August 16, 2018 18:45
Unfortunatly, I saw her never live in concert.
RIP Aretha Franklin
RIP Aretha Franklin
Re: OT-Aretha passes
Posted by:
JumpinJimF
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Date: August 16, 2018 19:01
Sad news. A fabulous singer and interpreter.
Re: OT-Aretha passes
Posted by:
shattered
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Date: August 16, 2018 19:09
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Ladykiller
Unfortunatly, I saw her never live in concert.
RIP Aretha Franklin
Same here. Missed opportunity.
Is there any cure for pancreatic cancer? She was only 76.
Re: OT-Aretha passes
Posted by:
Hairball
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Date: August 16, 2018 19:11
Sadness...
...
My wife and I were fortunate to see her live in 2015, and we were both deeply moved at how great she was. Her vocals touched our souls, and the entire performance was spine tingling...brought us both to tears.
As the Stones statement said above, she brought us to church...the church of soul...the church of Aretha....
RIP Aretha Franklin
_____________________________________________________________
Rip this joint, gonna save your soul, round and round and round we go......
...My wife and I were fortunate to see her live in 2015, and we were both deeply moved at how great she was. Her vocals touched our souls, and the entire performance was spine tingling...brought us both to tears.
As the Stones statement said above, she brought us to church...the church of soul...the church of Aretha....
RIP Aretha Franklin
_____________________________________________________________
Rip this joint, gonna save your soul, round and round and round we go......
Re: OT-Aretha passes
Posted by:
Ruediger
()
Date: August 16, 2018 19:28
Quote
filstan
A true musical giant is gone. Her golden era quality remains unchallenged. The true queen of soul.
So true! RIP, Aretha!
And we all can have a look into this:
[www.youtube.com]
Ruediger
Re: OT-Aretha passes
Posted by:
Hairball
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Date: August 16, 2018 19:43
Quote
RuedigerQuote
filstan
A true musical giant is gone. Her golden era quality remains unchallenged. The true queen of soul.
So true! RIP, Aretha!
And we all can have a look into this:
[www.youtube.com]
Ruediger
Thanks for that Ruediger.
Immediately after that video, this was next in the queue - a great interview and overview of her career from 1990 with Ed Bradley from 60 Minutes:
The Aretha Franklin 60 Minutes Interview
_____________________________________________________________
Rip this joint, gonna save your soul, round and round and round we go......
Re: OT-Aretha passes
Posted by:
Deltics
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Date: August 16, 2018 20:04
Rest In Peace Lady Soul.
"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"
"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"
Re: OT-Aretha passes
Posted by:
MartinB
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Date: August 16, 2018 20:38
Sad. Very sad. She was the best. RIP
Re: OT-Aretha passes
Posted by:
Maindefender
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Date: August 16, 2018 21:25
The Queen of Soul. Caught snippets of when she filled in for Pavarotti, that really blew my mind.....
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Posted by:
Strike
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Date: August 16, 2018 21:44
Quote
MartinB
Sad. Very sad. She was the best. RIP
This one is absolutely breathtaking...
Re: OT-Aretha passes
Posted by:
Stoneage
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Date: August 16, 2018 22:11
I'm not a friend of hyperbolism, but if ever words like great or the greatest are to be used this is a very fitting occasion. She truly was one of the greatest artists of her era. Maybe the greatest...
Re: OT-Aretha passes
Posted by:
colonial
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Date: August 16, 2018 22:24
Aretha The Queen Of Soul and Elvis The King Of Rock
Passed away on the same date
Passed away on the same date
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Posted by:
keithsman
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Date: August 16, 2018 23:19
RIP Aretha, the voice of an angel.
Re: OT-Aretha passes
Posted by:
Hairball
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Date: August 16, 2018 23:39
From the L.A. Times:
The voice was incredible, but Aretha Franklin at the piano was also pure magic
By Randy Lewis
Aug 16, 2018 | 8:30 AM
Aretha
Aretha Franklin’s visits to Los Angeles were relatively few and far between throughout her career, a function of her aversion to flying. Typically, she would travel to gigs the old-school way, by tour bus, which consequently required a good three- or four-day trek from her home in Detroit to the West Coast. It wasn’t unusual for years to elapse between her Southland performances, so when word did emerge of a Franklin booking, I would do everything humanly possible to clear the decks to make sure I was in attendance. And ahead of every show of hers I’d say a little prayer that at some point she would take a seat at the piano and accompany herself on a few songs. Like other revered pop vocalists such as Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand, Franklin usually assumed the standard headline singer post out in front of the orchestra, band and singers. But there was something special when she sat at the keyboard: a fusion of singer, instrumentalist and song that inevitably pushed the goose-bumps quotient up several notches.
When she played the Microsoft Theater in the L.A. Live entertainment-sports-dining complex in 2015, I noted in reviewing that show, “The 73-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee sang about half a dozen numbers while also accompanying herself at the piano, an exercise that adds an extra degree of inspiration to whatever she sings.” I wasn’t alone in that feeling. This topic, of the magic Franklin created while playing piano as she sang—a combination that stretched back to her early years performing gospel music in the church of her father, Rev. C.L. Franklin — came up periodically during my interviews with other pop music heavyweights. “It took me ages to persuade her to play piano on ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash,’ Rolling Stones songwriter and guitarist Keith Richards told me in 2015, referring to her version of the song she recorded for the 1986 Whoopi Goldberg film of the same title. “The deal was,” Richards recalled, “that if we came to Detroit, she’d do it, because she hates traveling. I said, ‘I’ll make a deal with you: We’ll come to Detroit, but you’ve got to play piano.’ It’s automatic with her: She starts playing those beautiful gospel chords. She doesn’t think of herself as much of a piano player, but when [she’s] singing with it, it’s a different thing.”
Indeed, when I brought up her piano playing to the Queen of Soul herself several years ago as prelude to an interview we were doing about her latest recording, suggesting that she consider playing more numbers at the piano at her concerts, she demurred, saying something along the line of “Do you think people would like it?” It didn’t come off as false modesty. Music mogul Clive Davis, who signed Franklin to his Arista Records label and helped reenergize her career at that time with hits such as “Freeway of Love” and “Who’s Zoomin’ Who,” also testified to the brilliance of her performances at the piano when we discussed the making of her 2014 album “Great Diva Classics,” in which she recorded her interpretations of songs associated with other female singers. He made sure to include one track that also featured her at the piano: her rendition of Diana Ross & the Supremes’ 1966 Motown hit “You Keep Me Hangin’ On.”
Want more proof?
Check out Franklin’s 2015 performance at the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D.C., of Carole King and Gerry Goffin’s song “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,” part of the evening’s salute to honoree King. It’s an extraordinary performance that fortunately was documented and posted to YouTube, where it has tallied more than 12 million views, at least in part thanks to the over-the-top reaction shots from King herself, clearly awestruck when Franklin sits down at the piano.
Elton John, another musician renowned for his skills at the piano, brought up that performance when I interviewed him shortly after that night. He could barely contain his enthusiasm. “Did you see the Kennedy Center thing with Aretha?” he said sitting at the kitchen table in his Beverly Hills home. “It’s one of the great performances of all time. I watched it five times in a row. You couldn’t start the day off better off than that. And she’s 74 years of age. “At one point you thought maybe she was losing her voice, but she hasn’t, and at the end she goes for it, and it’s thrilling, it’s so thrilling,” he said, sounding more like the giddy music fan than a grizzled veteran of half a century in the music industry trenches. “How often do we get thrilled like that anymore, come on?”
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Review of the L.A. show my wife and I were fortunate to see in 2015:
Aretha Franklin, in top form, takes flight at Microsoft Theater
_____________________________________________________________
Rip this joint, gonna save your soul, round and round and round we go......
The voice was incredible, but Aretha Franklin at the piano was also pure magic
By Randy Lewis
Aug 16, 2018 | 8:30 AM
Aretha
Aretha Franklin’s visits to Los Angeles were relatively few and far between throughout her career, a function of her aversion to flying. Typically, she would travel to gigs the old-school way, by tour bus, which consequently required a good three- or four-day trek from her home in Detroit to the West Coast. It wasn’t unusual for years to elapse between her Southland performances, so when word did emerge of a Franklin booking, I would do everything humanly possible to clear the decks to make sure I was in attendance. And ahead of every show of hers I’d say a little prayer that at some point she would take a seat at the piano and accompany herself on a few songs. Like other revered pop vocalists such as Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand, Franklin usually assumed the standard headline singer post out in front of the orchestra, band and singers. But there was something special when she sat at the keyboard: a fusion of singer, instrumentalist and song that inevitably pushed the goose-bumps quotient up several notches.
When she played the Microsoft Theater in the L.A. Live entertainment-sports-dining complex in 2015, I noted in reviewing that show, “The 73-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee sang about half a dozen numbers while also accompanying herself at the piano, an exercise that adds an extra degree of inspiration to whatever she sings.” I wasn’t alone in that feeling. This topic, of the magic Franklin created while playing piano as she sang—a combination that stretched back to her early years performing gospel music in the church of her father, Rev. C.L. Franklin — came up periodically during my interviews with other pop music heavyweights. “It took me ages to persuade her to play piano on ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash,’ Rolling Stones songwriter and guitarist Keith Richards told me in 2015, referring to her version of the song she recorded for the 1986 Whoopi Goldberg film of the same title. “The deal was,” Richards recalled, “that if we came to Detroit, she’d do it, because she hates traveling. I said, ‘I’ll make a deal with you: We’ll come to Detroit, but you’ve got to play piano.’ It’s automatic with her: She starts playing those beautiful gospel chords. She doesn’t think of herself as much of a piano player, but when [she’s] singing with it, it’s a different thing.”
Indeed, when I brought up her piano playing to the Queen of Soul herself several years ago as prelude to an interview we were doing about her latest recording, suggesting that she consider playing more numbers at the piano at her concerts, she demurred, saying something along the line of “Do you think people would like it?” It didn’t come off as false modesty. Music mogul Clive Davis, who signed Franklin to his Arista Records label and helped reenergize her career at that time with hits such as “Freeway of Love” and “Who’s Zoomin’ Who,” also testified to the brilliance of her performances at the piano when we discussed the making of her 2014 album “Great Diva Classics,” in which she recorded her interpretations of songs associated with other female singers. He made sure to include one track that also featured her at the piano: her rendition of Diana Ross & the Supremes’ 1966 Motown hit “You Keep Me Hangin’ On.”
Want more proof?
Check out Franklin’s 2015 performance at the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D.C., of Carole King and Gerry Goffin’s song “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,” part of the evening’s salute to honoree King. It’s an extraordinary performance that fortunately was documented and posted to YouTube, where it has tallied more than 12 million views, at least in part thanks to the over-the-top reaction shots from King herself, clearly awestruck when Franklin sits down at the piano.
Elton John, another musician renowned for his skills at the piano, brought up that performance when I interviewed him shortly after that night. He could barely contain his enthusiasm. “Did you see the Kennedy Center thing with Aretha?” he said sitting at the kitchen table in his Beverly Hills home. “It’s one of the great performances of all time. I watched it five times in a row. You couldn’t start the day off better off than that. And she’s 74 years of age. “At one point you thought maybe she was losing her voice, but she hasn’t, and at the end she goes for it, and it’s thrilling, it’s so thrilling,” he said, sounding more like the giddy music fan than a grizzled veteran of half a century in the music industry trenches. “How often do we get thrilled like that anymore, come on?”
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Review of the L.A. show my wife and I were fortunate to see in 2015:
Aretha Franklin, in top form, takes flight at Microsoft Theater
_____________________________________________________________
Rip this joint, gonna save your soul, round and round and round we go......
Re: OT-Aretha passes
Posted by:
dcba
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Date: August 17, 2018 00:01
A true giant just passed...
There's hardly anybofy of this caliber still alive. Maybe Quincy Jones?
There's hardly anybofy of this caliber still alive. Maybe Quincy Jones?
Re: OT-Aretha passes
Posted by:
TornFrayedSue
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Date: August 17, 2018 00:05
Rip Aretha Franklin, a true hero in musc and human rights.
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Posted by:
switchblade1975
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Date: August 17, 2018 00:15
sad new's,r.i.p. Aretha, you will be missed.
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Posted by:
SomeTorontoGirl
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Date: August 17, 2018 00:37
Damn. First woman inducted into the R&R HOF. R. I. P. Aretha, and thanks for the joy and shivers.
Re: OT-Aretha passes
Posted by:
Rockman
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Date: August 17, 2018 00:43
Farewell Aretha ….
Thanks so much for all you gave ……….
What a fine time it will be as you walk in through the gates of heaven …………………………
I'm gonna play Aint No Way ..,...…
Safe Journey Soul Lady …...
ROCKMAN
Thanks so much for all you gave ……….
What a fine time it will be as you walk in through the gates of heaven …………………………
I'm gonna play Aint No Way ..,...…
Safe Journey Soul Lady …...
ROCKMAN
Re: OT-Aretha passes
Posted by:
mikey C
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Date: August 17, 2018 01:20
Sad..What a voice grew up with it ...The Queen of soul....passed away a day short of the king of rock...makes sense some how..Peace.M
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