Posted on 08/13/2018 7:07:11 AM PDT by Red Badger
This is exclusive, and heart breaking for me and for the family and friends of the great Aretha Franklin. She is gravely ill in Detroit. The family is asking for prayers and privacy.
Originally diagnosed with cancer in 2010, Aretha, who turned 76 in March, bravely battled back and refused to be knocked out by illness. Her last performance as on November 2, 2017 for the Elton John AIDS Foundation in New York. Her final public performance was at Philadelphia’s Mann Center in August 2017. It was a miraculous show as Aretha was already then fighting exhaustion and dehydration.
Aretha is surrounded by family and people close to her. She will be so missed as a mother, sister, friend, cousin. But her legacy is larger than life. It’s not just that Rolling Stone called her the number 1 singer of all time, or that she is the Queen of Soul. Long live the Queen.
More to come…
Prayers up for her as she transitions to the next life.
The incomparable Aretha! A National Treasure. Prayers for a peaceful painless passage into God’s loving arms. She has earned it.
I don’t think Franklin will be alive much longer. :-(
Very talented woman. Spent many an hour listening to her music. Very sad news.
I wish her the best.
The Blues Brothers!
She was great in the Blues Brothers.
Aretha and Skydog:
The Weight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGdxpnGK2o4
It Ain’t Fair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7E_jz3jHQc
Keep Me Hangin’ On
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUIxhPymItY
I thought she was a gonner when she was diagnosed seven years ago.
A true American treasure. I will pray she goes as peacefully as my parents did.
Before some dolt starts in about how she was a “leftist tool” for attending Obama’s inauguration (and that HAT!), let me say that her talent transcended all races and like the Motown artists and other black artists from the 60s, she used her talent and fame to create unity and eliminate racism (in contrast to what is going on today).
RESPECT is earned, and the Queen of Soul has most definitely earned it.
Prayers for Aretha, the Queen of Soul.
Holy cow. What a shame. I’m so sorry to hear this.
You were able to spell that better than Obama did!
Earlier thread with multiple links to her music:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3678767/posts
Prayers for an amazing woman
She was great, Period. IMHO.
Although, the Blues Brothers setting let her do her thing with informal humor rather than glitzy staging. BTW, the guy who played her BF, "Guitar Murphy", died recently, in June. His real name was Matt Murphy.
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