Respect
The Life of Aretha Franklin
$34.15
- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
12 January 2016
Summary
Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother, she was a gospel prodigy who gave birth to two sons in her teens and left them and her native Detroit for New York, where she struggled to find her true voice. It was not until 1967, when a white Jewish producer insisted she return to her gospel-soul roots, that fame and fortune finally came via ‘Respect’ and a rapid-fire string of hits. She has evolved ever since, a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780316196819 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0316196819 |
| Author: | David Ritz |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown & Company |
| Imprint: | Back Bay Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Release Date: | 12 January 2016 |
| Weight: | 480g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 138mm x 42mm |
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Critics Review
A remarkably complex portrait of Aretha Franklin’s music and her tumultuous life. - Rolling Stone
An honest and genuinely respectful portrait of a true diva by a writer who feels the power of her art. - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Only someone who had the complete confidence and trust of Aretha’s family and the elite of the Gospel and Rhythm and Blues communities could have gotten this story. An intimate and thorough account of this phenomenal woman’s talent and life as only David Ritz could capture. - Tommy LiPuma, Grammy-winning producerAbout The Author
David Ritz
David Ritz is a Grammy Award winner and the only four-time winner of the Gleason Music Book Award. He won the 2013 ASCAP Timothy White Award for outstanding musical biography for When I Left Home, written with Buddy Guy. He has collaborated with Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye, B.B. King, Etta James, and Smokey Robinson. Ritz lives in Los Angeles with his wife.
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