Word: aretha
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...singer-songwriter’s sophomore effort. It’s like listening to a severely psychotic, irreparably damaged, and bitterly immature manic-depressive singing her woes—and it’s highly gratifying. With a voice that harkens back to Lauryn Hill, Macy Gray, and Aretha Franklin—or all of them rolled into one—Winehouse can definitely sing, but it’s ultimately her personality that carries the album...
...Winehouse may not be Aretha, singing about the eternal spirit in the dark, but she’s a hell of a spectacle. She is the train wreck of the moment. And she’s entertaining, for now, because who doesn’t love a good train wreck...
...Calif. Hattoy, most recently president of California's Fish and Game Commission, famously decried then President George H.W. Bush's "moral blindness" in handling the AIDS crisis in a brief, raw prime-time speech at the 1992 Democratic Convention. The outspoken activist, who opened his '92 remarks by thanking Aretha Franklin, was reassigned to a less visible post after criticizing a proposal Clinton said he'd consider to limit the deployment of gays in the military...
DIED. Ahmet Ertegun, 83, singularly influential music mogul who in 1947 founded Atlantic Records, the label that launched seminal acts that included Ruth Brown, Ray Charles, Otis Redding (who called him Omelet), Aretha Franklin, Bette Midler and Cream; in New York City. The Turkish-born son of a diplomat, he fell in love with jazz in his youth, and as a teenager amassed a collection of 15,000 records. A hands-on producer, occasional songwriter, tireless talent scout and mentor to many of his artists, Ertegun--who started with a $10,000 loan from his dentist--popularized soul and later...
...ARETHA FRANKLIN...