A battle over the superstar’s estate landed in court.
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Informal documents can be valid. But when that’s all a rich person leaves behind, the legal costs can get pretty steep.
A pop pioneer whose songs were performed by the great and good for decades.
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Pop composer Burt Bacharach died on Feb. 8, 2023, at the age of 94. He left a legacy of classic songs beloved by generations.
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Everyone knows the Elvis story, but what’s less known is the story of the Black women singers and musicians who forged the way.
A United Nations staff member pays tribute to Kofi Annan during a ceremony at the European headquarters of the UN in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Kofi Annan and John McCain’s positive eulogies could be because both men seized moments of human dignity and decency.
Aretha Franklin performs at New York’s Radio City Music Hall in 1989.
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When record executives tried to mold Franklin’s sound to their liking, her career sputtered. Then legendary producer Jerry Wexler came along. His approach? Stay out of her way.
Aretha Franklin performing in 1978. The gospel singer died in Detroit on Thursday aged 76.
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Franklin, who has died aged 76 in Detroit, was a church girl first and foremost. She was the master of the gospel form.
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Aretha Franklin, the ‘Queen of Soul’, was the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Gebhard Fugel, ‘An den Wassern Babylons.’
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Psalm 137 – best known for its opening line, ‘By the Rivers of Babylon’ – is a 2,500-year-old Hebrew psalm that deals with the Jewish exile and is remembered each year on Tisha B’av.