Aretha Franklin ... “The call for respect went from a request to a demand,” Jerry Wexler, who helped Franklin land her deal with Atlantic Records, reportedly said of Franklin's first No ...

Last week, Aretha Franklin released the first track from her forthcoming album, a cover of Adele's "Rolling in the Deep." The new album, a collection of covers called Aretha Franklin Sings the ...

Aretha Franklin was an American ... "I've Never Loved a Man." Franklin's first No. 1 hit came that same year with her cover of Otis Redding's "Respect," which also won Franklin her first two ...

Once upon a time Aretha Franklin was the greatest singer on earth. On this covers ... album. The second album by the British R&B singer is smoother and more mature than her bumpier, poppier first ...

Now: “Respect” isn’t my favorite Aretha Franklin song. It’s not even my favorite song from the first album that she released ... non-Aretha “Respect” cover I really like, the diva ...

album. "Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics" includes covers of songs including "Midnight ... Jump to It' (was released in 1982) or the first time one of my records was played on the ...

Aretha Franklin ... Respect, the new movie about her early years, doesn't entirely avoid those biopic conventions. But there's real intelligence and feeling in it all the same. This is the first ...

The first side of Aretha Franklin's 1967 album Aretha Arrives concludes with a Willie Nelson cover: "Night Life ... Her iconic songs include "Respect," "Think" and many more.

'Respect' screenwriter Tracey Scott Wilson speaks with Showbiz Cheat Sheet about writing the Aretha Franklin biopic. Scott Wilson addressed how she chose which songs to include in the movie, and ...

If what you want is a first ... the upcoming Aretha Franklin biopic "Respect," you got it! A teaser-trailer premiered Friday featuring Hudson as Franklin belting out the classic cover of Otis ...

NEW YORK — Aretha Franklin is showing some R-E-S-P-E ... s colossal hit “Rolling In the Deep,” which is the first single off the album. It will be available digitally Monday, when the ...

One of Aretha Franklin’s biggest and first hits, “Respect” became a feminist anthem because of the way Franklin spells it out loud and proud. R-E-S-P-E-C-T. The album recording is quintessen ...