Rip Aretha Franklin

[shrewbie]

[sarahispi]

Yashar Ali 🐘 (yashar)

[LilWoodyToodelly]

So breezy

[LilWoodyToodelly]

Fave vid on YouTube so perfect in every way.

[dingaling]

Had a bit of a weep about this even though I knew it was coming. What a woman, what a voice. There’ll never be anyone quite like her again

[shrewbie]

pretty incredible wasn’t she

[pervo]

a day where i can post this and no-one can pretend Dusty’s version is better <3

seriously though. her voice gives me chills

Aretha Franklin - Son of a Preacher Man

[NoahVale]

Sang at the funeral of Martin Luther King. That’s what you call a legend

[Fintans_Cat]

That was beautiful. RIP love x

[BodyInTheThames]

This is one of those ones that hits you much harder than you expected. I guess I grew up, like so many others, with Aretha in the house courtesy of my mum

Then one of my bosses said to me as we left work “She’s not dead, she’ll never die. Listen, she’s singing in my ear right now and that’ll never stop because people will never stop listening to her music”

and I felt a lot better for about 10 minutes & then I burst into tears listening to ‘say a little prayer’ in the headphones on my walk home

Rest in fucking power Aretha

[rich-t]

“She’s not dead, she’ll never die. Listen, she’s singing in my ear right now and that’ll never stop because people will never stop listening to her music”

That is strangely beautiful

[marckee]

Like many people my age, I grew up in a house where my mum and dad played soul music all the time, so she felt like a part of my life even though I never lived through it.

I just got off the phone to my parents after they got back from their regular ballroom dancing group. They took along some old records and it turned into a soul night tonight.

[Lo-Pan]

What a fucking voice. Like so many we all grew up listening to her. Super fucking cool for so many reasons.
A proper Titan if music. Till next time Aretha!

[BodyInTheThames]

FOURTEEN years old, live in church

listen at her

[weeber]

That voice. Incredible.

[SenorDingDong]

Detroit Free Press (freep)

[Tiergarten]

My parents had this - https://www.discogs.com/Various-The-No-1-Classic-Soul-Album/release/3709243 - when I was 5. Stacked across all four sides. I Say A Little Prayer was the first one I learnt to sing.

Then one of my bosses said to me as we left work “She’s not dead, she’ll never die. Listen, she’s singing in my ear right now and that’ll never stop because people will never stop listening to her music”

Couldn’t have put it better.