Say A Little Prayer for Aretha :(

pancreatic cancer :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STKkWj2WpWM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_localdtw/20101208/ts_yblog_localdtw/aretha-franklin-stricken-with-cancer

Yikes. Hope Aretha can beat this.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/15/ArethaAmazingGrace.JPG
this album is incredible.

really sad :(

she's one of those ppl i couldn't imagine not being here

and you learn something new everyday: "Amazing Grace", the documentary/ Concert film directed by Sydney Pollack for Warner Bros., was set to be released as part of a double bill with Super Fly in 1972. However the film ended up in the studio vaults for over 38 years. While producer Alan Elliott is overseeing the project after Pollack's death in 2008, the credit on the film will read "a film by Sydney Pollack." Elliott has worked since 2008 to piece together the backstory of "Amazing Grace." As of September 2010[update], no date has been set for the release. Elliott says, "Maybe because it's history now. Here is one of the most famous artists in the world, as she was then, doing something that nobody had ever done, or has really done since. So I think the film is going to find a wider audience, not just because of its gospel roots, but because of its historical value."

I actually felt really sad when I heard this, and I normally don't really care that much about celebs... :( Hope she can live through this, but the statistics for pancreatic cancer survival are kind of grim

yeah her vocals on Amazing Grace are otherwordly

:(

^^^^^^^^^^^^

she's one of those ppl i couldn't imagine not being here

― EIEIoOoOO (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, December 8, 2010 10:43 PM (2 minutes ago)

OTM.

:(

http://disgrasian.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/aretha-hat-poster.jpg

classic hat

Aretha is also hilariously shady when it comes to other female performers, she out-does Mariah in that category. Remember her beef with Tina Turner & Beyonce? LMAO

http://i.min.us/iVMEM.jpeg

^ one of my favourite photos ever

Remember her beef with Tina Turner & Beyonce?

i don't think i knew about this!!

i also forgot this coat. i don't know how many nieces, granddaughters etc aretha has, but i'm sure they're all lobbying to be left this amazing item

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/03/article-0-0772FF71000005DC-516_468x696.jpg

I don't know how many minks died to create that robe.

But the news isn't entirely bleak. While actors Michael Landon and Patrick Swayze succumbed to pancreatic cancer, Apple CEO Steve Jobs and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg have, so far, survived it

Hopefully she'll be a lucky one. Seeing her sing gospel the night before the Obama inauguration at the Kennedy Center is a very fond memory of mine. And that hat the next day...

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Don't know if "shady" is the word. Aretha just considers herself the supreme diva. Etta James is the same way.

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are you guys that fashion police thing on the back page of people?

she's a really good piano player too, beautiful vers. of bridge over troubled water

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DBl5gAs6WI

Her best piano album is Spirit in the Dark, to my ears.

Get well Rere. I know Young, Gifted and Black isn't slept on or anything, but I think this is one of my favorite underheard Aretha songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6xySNB07pQ&feature=related

saying a little prayer over here...

still banned?

guess not.

terrible news

joke noted of course

Sucks, poor woman.

She's the original and I am not going to blame her for all the bad copycats that have invaded the hitlists lately.

lately?

I mean, don't name them (not the thread for it), but really?

Don't worry guys, she can't die. The only person worthy of singing at her funeral would be herself, ergo she is immortal.

lately?

The first bunch were during the 70s disco explosion, but the hitlists were largely devoid of them again by the 80s. Until this late 90s/early 2000s pop-RnB explosion.

oh. Hardly "lately" tho.

And I guess Loletta Holloway was the one who really started the cliche.

As in.... Aretha Franklin is a great singer and no doubt about that (even though personally I think she'd been better off with different material). But Loletta Holloway is to blame for a lot of very, very, very, very bad music.

Don't worry guys, she can't die. The only person worthy of singing at her funeral would be herself, ergo she is immortal.

man ain't that the truth. Ray Charles sang at Sam Cooke's funeral. who will Aretha get? Beyonce? Mariah?

Minnie Riperton is sadly already dead 30 years go :( She was great.

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/04/amazing-grace-aretha-franklin-telluride

Lots of Aretha threads...wasnn't sure where to put this. I wanna say a little prayer that a deal can be worked out with Aretha to show this movie doc of her Amazing Grace church gig

A Telluride Film Festival showing of a documentary about Aretha Franklin’s historic album Amazing Grace has been canceled, due to a lawsuit filed by the singer herself.

Franklin filed the lawsuit seeking “emergency injunctive release” earlier Friday, claiming that the film, also titled Amazing Grace, violated her contractual and intellectual rights, her right to privacy, and her rights to use and control her name and likeness. U.S. District Judge John Kane granted Franklin an emergency injunction against the film, a representative at the judge’s office told EW on Friday. In the court order, Judge Kane cited Franklin’s original agreement with Warner Bros., which required her consent for commercial use of the footage.

Amazing Grace, from producers Alan Elliott, Stefan Nowicki and Joey Carey, is composed heavily of 1972 footage shot by the late Sydney Pollack of Franklin’s historic performance at a church in Los Angeles. Pollack planned to use the footage for a movie for Warner Bros., but the project was shelved, and the footage stayed in Warner Bros.’ vault for more than 40 years.

In the order granting the injunction, Judge Kane noted that Franklin says she has not given permission for the film’s producers or for Telluride to screen the footage. The order also heads off fair use claims, reading, “a film that essentially recreates the entire concert experience is not fair use of the footage.”

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sydney-pollacks-amazing-grace-tortured-820294

Maybe if they come up with some extra bucks for Aretha, this can be worked out so it can be released

that's a tough one; she really should have control over this but the fan in me just wants to see the performance

is her problem just that they didn't pay her idgi

just guessing but she probably wants cash now to do promo, a cut of the gross and a modicum of creative control wrt release, marketing, final cut, etc

which are all things she's certainly grown accustomed to in her past several decades as a genre defining artist but prob were not part of her original contract

it's just weird, you would think the filmmakers would have worked this out beforehand

Seems like they just thought that once they found the old contract with her, they could do what they wanted.

Not too smart.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/04/aretha-franklins-american-soul

a group of kids at the high school across from my apartment are eating lunch outside and about thirty of them are rehearsing some sort of musical number (maybe for a talent show?) where two of them are belting the lead vocals to "Think" and the rest are doing backup and it is fucking awesome.

i hope aretha franklin lives forever of course

i was gonna say, very glad this wasn't a post-mortem revive

rehearsal sounds great tho!

yeah, they are fucking killing it. it's kind of amazing.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6053735/Aretha-Franklin-gravely-ill-76-Queen-Soul-surrounded-family-Detroit.html

Man, just came here to post more or less the same thing. Hope she pulls through. Feel lucky I was able to take my whole family to see her perform around a year ago.

Not the kindest euro paper

"Fatty Aretha Franklin is back alert and even shares 'tease'"

https://www.hln.be/showbizz/doodzieke-aretha-franklin-is-terug-alert-en-deelt-zelfs-plaagstootjes-uit~a9159b5c/

"On Tuesday Stevie Wonder visited 'The Queen of Soul' to give her a final greeting. Possibly it caused a miracle"

hope she pulls thru!

You might want to find a better translator, because nowhere does it say 'fatty' in the original article.

When you go into the article, the automatic Google Translate brings it up as "fatty" in English. It seems to mean something like "ill patient" or "afflicted" though.

With my limited ability to use a Dutch dictionary I can hazard a guess that the first word means “terminally ill” - literally “deathsick.”

Damn, I hope she pulls through so I can snatch that as my next ILX username.

Perhaps Google Translate thought the word was a compound or derivative of “dikte” which, like its German equivalent “Dicke” means thickness, but can also mean “fatty,” perhaps, I guess.

Recently came across this, which may be relevant. Het middel is erger dan de kwaal.

Cant we get some flemish speakers up in here to weigh in

ALSO - RIP Aretha I owe you much respect

Adjective
deadly
bent shape of the setting staircase of death sickness

https://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/doodzieke

You still used Google Translate or something to translate part or all of that, which is where the “staircase” arose.

My wife and I saw her in Chicago in the spring of last year and she still brought down the house. She sat for most of the concert, and had to take a bit of a break with a set that featured her band, but man was her voice a star. Rev. Jesse Jackson was two rows in front of us, and she saw him and declared, "what are you doing way back there, Jesse?, come right up front right now!" It was a magical night for sure. Rest in Power - R.E.S.P.E.C.T. Aretha!

Okay, sorry to belabor the point but hey ilx: forgot the iPhone has a Dutch dictionary - two actually- which translates the word as “mortally ill.”

That's what it means, yes, but that was already well established iirc

Aretha Franklin -- RIP

If anyone deserves her own RIP thread its Aretha. Locking this one temporarily.