Respect : the life of Aretha Franklin
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First edition. |
Little, Brown and Company,
New York :
2014.
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About
Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother, she was a gospel prodigy who gave birth to two sons in her teens and left them and her native Detroit for New York, where she struggled to find her true voice. She found fame, fortune, and that remarkable voice in 1967 with "Respect" and a rapid-fire string of hits. Aretha turned the industry on its head by refueling pop with heavy soul. The Queen of Soul had survived, and arrived. In Respect, David Ritz uses exclusive interviews with her closest family, friends, and associates to write movingly of Aretha's path and the extraordinary highs and deep lows she encountered along the way. Just as she was reestablishing her divadom in the 1980s with hist life "Freeway of Love," personal tragedy--the deaths of he father, sisters, and bother--threw her into isolation. Whenever it seems the Queen has relinquished her reign, she appears in scenes of ever grater drama and national significance. In 1998, when an ailing Luciano Pavarotti could not appear at the Grammy Awards, she came out of the shadows and stunned the world with a version of "Nessun Dorma" that was pure pop soul. From the moving elegies she performed at the funerals of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks to her dramatic performance at President Obama's first inauguration, Aretha has become our nation's voice. Again and again, Aretha Franklin stubbornly finds a way to triumph over troubles, conquering them even as they continue to build. Her hold on her crown is tenacious, and in Respect, David Ritz gives us the decisive and definitive study of one of the greatest talents in all of American culture.--Dust jacket flap.
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Details
- ISBN: 0316196835 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 9780316196833 (hbk.)
- Physical Description: viii, 520 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.print
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-500), discography (pages 501-504) and filmography (pages 505-506).
- Formatted Contents Note: Meeting the Queen -- Sacred sources. Father and daughter ; Instability ; Mothers and fathers ; The sex circus ; The blood ; Moving on up -- Columbia. The biggest and best ; Gentleman pimp ; Water, water everywhere ; What a difference a day makes ; Fools -- Atlantic. Never loved ; Keep rolling ; Natural ; Year of years ; High maintenance ; Spirit ; Right reverend ; Amazing ; Hey ; Shop around ; The spark ; Fairy-tale princess ; The hustle -- Arista. Daddy's little girl ; Back on track ; Home ; Our father ; Diva-fication ; In the storm too long ; The mixture as before ; Party therapy ; A rose ; Vincerò ; Damage control -- The lioness in winter. What Aretha wants ; Oldies but goodies ; A woman falling out of love ; The once and future Queen.