STATEMENT FROM THE REDDING FAMILY ON THE PASSING OF ARETHA FRANKLIN
Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, was the perfect complement to Otis Redding, the King of Soul. Label mates, friends, and friendly competitors, each helped propel the other to new levels of artistic merit. Otis Redding released “Respect” to modest success in 1965. He wrote and performed it as an intimate conversation between a domestic […]