The Queen Has Passed….
Sad news. CNBC (and other venues) reports that Aretha passed yesterday, due to advanced pancreatic cancer.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/16/queen-of-soul-aretha-franklin-has-died-ap-citing-publicist.html
Who else in the world could make a long-term, memorable hit out of one word: R-E-S-P-E-C-T?
Who else celebrated being a woman decades before this current generation of Jugendipshits thought it was a ‘thing”?
Kids today… they don’t know nothin’!
See you next time around, Aretha. Gonna miss you!
Category: Geezer Alert!
She was truly one of the great ones!
By an astonishing coincidence, August 16th is also the day that Elvis Presley died (1977), Bela Lugosi (1956), and Babe Ruth (1948). A Queen, a King, a Count, and a Sultan.
All are missed in their own ways.
Now if in some future year Barack Obama should die on August 16th, we’ll have a Queen, a King and a Jackoff…
“a King and a jackass” FIFY RIP Aretha
Fair winds and following seas, Aretha.
When I saw the headline, I assumed this article was about Her Britannic Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
Am I the only one who thought that?
It was just recently that I heard Aretha’s version of “I say a Little Prayer” for the first time – it completely smokes Dionne Warwick’s still very good version –
Loved Aretha (but Otis wrote Respect).
On the highway last night, I tuned into the Mark Levin show. He started playing a song of hers, so I changed the channel. She was a good singer and had a few memorable tunes. She also had her first child at 12, her second at 14, and although she commanded huge sums to perform, didn’t pay her bills on time. But she was a good singer.
A truly talented woman, who became a star without dressing like a stripper and acting like a cheap whore on stage. A vanishing breed these days.
I sat on my deck late this afternoon with my laptop and speakers hooked up (with a few cold ones and cigar) and among the other music I like – I played “RESPECT” at least 10 times…plus some other Aretha songs.
She was head and shoulders above the rest.
Had just hitchhiked across France in 1971 (listening to French bubblegum pop…yuck) in every bar. Walking down a street in Le Havre near the port, heard the last bars of “Georgia” (Ray Charles fading away, and then thode classic opening chords to “Respect” started. Turned out to be a soul bar run by two gorgeous ladies from Martinique. Spent the next three days there…
I recall buffing the second floor of our tar paper barracks at Amarillo AFB (tech school days)in 1967..in our USAF issued white boxer shorts and white socks to “R-E-S-P-E-C-T” with the whole deck dancing and singing.I am
70 yrs old and still wake up AM’s thinking of those days with The Queen singing. She had a rough life early on but still never lost her sense of being a lady, a mother,and a professional. All done gracefully without tattoos, cheap outfits, image consultants and sex tapes. “All Hail the Queen”. God Bless You.. Aretha & teach them angels in Heaven to sing with soul.
CAPT Bones USN (ret)
God rest you in peace Ms. Franklin.