Published: August 16, 2018
From her teenage recordings to her collaboration with John Legend more than 50 years later, here are Aretha’s finest hits and deep cuts
Taped live when the singer was 14, the noise of the congregation clearly audible over her voice and piano, Aretha Franklin’s debut album, Songs of Faith, remains a genuinely haunting, faintly eerie document of at least one side of life in her father’s New Bethel Baptist church. (David Ritz’s controversial 2014 biography Respect has a pretty hair-raising depiction of what went on there behind closed doors.)
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