Respect. The Life Of Aretha Franklin

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2014
Edition: Reprint

Description:

Publishers Description: "A remarkably complex portrait of Aretha Franklins music and her tumultuous life." --Rolling StoneAretha 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. After fame and fortune finally came via "Respect," and a rapid-fire string of hits, she has evolved ever since, amidst personal tragedy, surprise Grammy performances, and career reinventions.Arethas hold on her crown is tenacious, and in RESPECT David Ritz gives us the decisive and definitive study of one of the greatest American talents of the twentieth century.

ISBN: 9780316196819