Aretha Franklin is in Hospice care -- Update, she died this morning, Pancreatic cancer
Several sources are reporting she is in failing health and was moved from a hospital to hospice care. Link to BBC because they don't seem to have a lot of popup interference (and they're not CNN):
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-------------------------- Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. -- H L Mencken
I always prefer reality when I can figure out what it is. -- JALLEN 10/18/18
August 14, 2018, 01:03 PM
arfmel
I hate to hear this. Another icon from my youth.
August 14, 2018, 01:14 PM
nhtagmember
that is sad to hear but not surprising
[B] Against ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC
August 14, 2018, 02:17 PM
Sgt Neutron
Aretha is an American treasure:
August 14, 2018, 04:30 PM
sigmonkey
May her journey be eased.
"the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב!
August 14, 2018, 04:41 PM
Bisleyblackhawk
... We (some of us) are getting to that age where are loosing those that we never thought we would live long enough to loose
"we've gotta roll with the punches, learn to play all of our hunches Making the best of what ever comes our way Forget that blind ambition and learn to trust your intuition Plowing straight ahead come what may And theres a cowboy in the jungle" Jimmy Buffet
August 14, 2018, 08:31 PM
Fredward
So sad. An American icon indeed.
August 14, 2018, 08:51 PM
Jimbo54
Yep, an icon indeed. She opened up a trail in the music scene that many other musicians followed. She will be missed.
Jim
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"If you can't be a good example, then you'll have to be a horrible warning" -Catherine Aird
August 14, 2018, 08:56 PM
jtedescucci
I LOVE to hear that woman sing....
"...we have put together I think the most extensive & inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics." - Joe Biden
August 14, 2018, 10:34 PM
sigmonkey
"the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב!
August 15, 2018, 06:47 AM
greco
She is Motowns' greatest talent. The world will lose a treasure when she is gone.
Never be more than one step away from your sword-Old Greek Wisdom
August 15, 2018, 06:59 AM
NK402
Love her song , Tramp, sung with Otis Redding. My wife and I scored tickets to one of the Grammy Awards shows back in the nineties at Radio City Music Hall. Someone on the show was scheduled to sing an operatic aria and cancelled at the last minute. They announced that Aretha would sing it instead. It was an amazing performance in a genre she was not known for.
August 16, 2018, 09:19 AM
Oz_Shadow
She has passed
August 16, 2018, 09:20 AM
nhtagmember
a sad day for music
she was a great voice
[B] Against ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC
August 16, 2018, 09:21 AM
roberth
quote:
Originally posted by nhtagmember: a sad day for music
she was a great voice
Yes on both counts.
August 16, 2018, 09:38 AM
jhe888
We will all miss her.
The Queen of Soul.
The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything.
August 16, 2018, 09:43 AM
old rugged cross
May God rest her soul.
"Practice like you want to play in the game"
August 16, 2018, 09:53 AM
JALLEN
She could sing!
She picked a day to go. Elvis died on August 16, as did Babe Ruth. On a happer note, my parents were married today, in 1943.
Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.
When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown
August 16, 2018, 09:54 AM
parabellum
76 is not a bad run
August 16, 2018, 10:02 AM
shovelhead
Only saw her once live, at Pine Knob/DTE Energy Theater in 1996. Probably tenth row. I was not disappointed.
NK402, you may be mistaken about "Tramp". The original song was done with Carla Thomas, Rufus Thomas's daughter, unless there was a later cover done.
-------------------------------------—————— ————————--Ignorance is a powerful tool if applied at the right time, even, usually, surpassing knowledge(E.J.Potter, A.K.A. The Michigan Madman)
