Aretha Franklin, Queen Of Soul, Dies At 76

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    Aretha Franklin has died at the age of 76. The legendary performer is perhaps most famous for her hit song "Respect," which she released in 1967. By the age of 18, she had secured a record deal and climbed the billboard charts. She was known as the "Queen of Soul" by the late 1960s. In 2005, President George W. Bush honored her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

     
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    She died in August 2018.
     
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    Mandela effect?
     
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    It wasn't my kind of music but the woman was certainly talented.
     
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    Well, you have to be pretty famous if your death is still being reported 2 years later.
     
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    Elvis is alive and well living in Hoboken N.J.
     
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    Otis Reading released RESPECT (as a groveling man) before Franklin did (as an emancipated woman.) The actual writer is a mystery.
     
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    Nobody in Hoboken is well living.
     
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    Verify how??

    You gonna poke her?
     
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    No mystery; written by Otis. Aretha simply "owned" it. :p

     
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    Oh, please.

    Besides, WIKI (The Fount of All That Is True and Righteous) says:
     
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