Aretha Franklin was undoubtedly the Queen of Soul when she released her 18th album, Young, Gifted and Black, at the start of 1972. But she was the queen of a lot of other things, too, including cover ...

Aretha Franklin, the undisputed Queen of Soul, is getting a proper tribute to some of the most influential years in her decades-long career: a box set of her albums from 1970 to 1974, available on ...

BMG announces the release of the Aretha Franklin boxed set, A Portrait Of The Queen, featuring five classic albums from the early ‘70s, plus bonus material of session alternates, outtakes, B-sides, ...

What we know: Every album can be read as a love album. Every album includes songs that describe a proximity to love or an approximation of what love feels like. (And they're always approximations.) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For its record-breaking frame, SOS earned 56,000 equivalent album units in the week ending May 4, according to Luminate, a 5% drop ...

On January 22, 1968, Aretha Franklin released “Lady Soul.” Credit: Photo courtesy of All Music. Aretha Franklin has long been considered the “Queen of Soul” and her Detroit upbringing has always kept ...

Here is the surprise. For all its power, Amazing Grace never topped the chart. It peaked at just No. 7 on the Billboard 200 and stopped at No. 2 on the R&B albums chart, never claiming the top spot.

The Queen of Soul had an affinity for classic rock, too. "I like all kinds of music," Franklin told this writer during a 1985 interview at her home in suburban Detroit. "It doesn't have to start as a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In addition to being a maternal figure to Hudson, the Memphis-born icon has long been the Queen of Soul to music lovers around the ...

In 1972, Aretha Franklin who had by then had some 11 consecutive hits including, “Respect,” “Think” and “(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman” decided to record a live gospel album. Over two nights ...