One of the best, the Queen of soul has died from cancer. She had a set of pipes on her that will never be equaled.
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One of the best, the Queen of soul has died from cancer. She had a set of pipes on her that will never be equaled.
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She was the real deal. So much more than that, but my first vision of her is singing “Think” in The Blues Brothers movie.
https://youtu.be/WY66elCQkYk
Incidentally, her husband in that scene, Matt ‘Guitar’ Murphy, a blues legend in his own right, died in June. John Lee Hooker, who sang his great Boom, Boom, Boom in the scene right before Aretha’s, died in 2001. The Blues greats are disappearing making way for new ones.
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“You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.” — Too fundamental to have an attribution
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RIP
From this mornnng's WSJ:
Painfully insecure, fearful of flying and perennially distrustful of those surrounding her, Ms. Franklin never let her psychological challenges overtake her performances. With her head reared back slightly, her mouth open in a smile and her voice effortlessly rising to sing in any octave, she became transformed in front of a microphone.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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Rip.
Fred
"Everyday I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've
stayed alive."
'Take care of yourself, and each other.'
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She was unmatched, an icon. An underappreciated pianist and songwriter as well, since her voice took center stage. RIP
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She was one of my dads favorites and he died 50 years ago
This is your mind on drugs!
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