1st edition. 8vo. viii + 520pp. Colour and b/w. illustrations. Original boards. Pictorial d/w. lettered in white and beige, slightly rubbed to edges. ISBN 9780316196833 US$10.

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Title

RESPECT. The Life of Aretha Franklin.

Publisher

Little, Brown, New York NY 2014.

Publication Date

2014

Language

English

ISBN 10

0316196835

ISBN 13

9780316196833

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

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Dust Jacket Included

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This "comprehensive and illuminating" biography of the Queen of Soul (USA Today) was hailed by Rolling Stone as "a remarkably complex portrait of Aretha Franklin's music and her tumultuous life."

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. It was not until 1967, when a white Jewish producer insisted she return to her gospel-soul roots, that fame and fortune finally came via "Respect" and a rapidfire string of hits. She continued to evolve for decades, amidst personal tragedy, surprise Grammy performances, and career reinventions.

Again and again, Aretha stubbornly found a way to triumph over troubles, even as they continued to build. Her hold on the crown was tenacious, and in Respect, David Ritz gives us the definitive life of one of the greatest talents in all American culture.

About the Author

David Ritz is the only four-time winner of the Gleason Music Book Award and won the 2013 ASCAP Timothy White award for outstanding musical biography for his book with Buddy Guy. With Marvin Gaye, he also cowrote the song "Sexual Healing". He lives in Los Angeles with his wife.

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