Here are some of the most memorable quotes from the Queen of Soul's service ... and it was her who introduced me to the voice of Aretha Franklin. We'd be driving up to the country and she'd ...

Aretha Franklin famously sung of love and heartbreak, but away from the music her personal life was every bit as stormy. The brilliant soul singer, who died today aged 76 and was renowned as one ...

Aretha Franklin grew up in 1950s Detroit, surrounded from childhood by the now-famous faces of the civil rights movement. Her songs would become their anthems. Her Baptist minister father was the ...