Carole King talks about watching Aretha perform the song for the first time Listen to Aretha Franklin tracks (BBC Music) Reflecting on that Kennedy Center performance, he said: "She was still ...

Countless Aretha Franklin songs topped the charts throughout her 60-plus year career, and she earned not only the Grammy Legend Award and its Lifetime Achievement Award, but 18 Grammy wins out of ...

Aretha Franklin grew up in 1950s Detroit, surrounded from childhood by the now-famous faces of the civil rights movement. Her songs would become ... Martin Luther King Jr made his "I have a ...