News about Aretha Franklin

CRAIG HOPE: The journey that brought Mark Clattenburg on board with the Daily Mail began in the foyer of a social club in Seaham in 2017. He was - not for the first time and, as this week shows, not for the last - at the centre of a media storm. The best referee in the world, he was quitting the Premier League for Saudi Arabia halfway through the season. It was back-page news. Clattenburg, however, had a commitment to give a talk to raise money for a junior football club close to his County Durham home. I bought a ticket and sat at the back of the room. Moments before the scheduled start, he was made aware of my presence and left the stage. He wanted a chat in the foyer. Was I about to get a red card?

MailOnline's Jess Hamilton recalls a whirlwind weekend in Nashville. Drawn in by loud music, studded cowboy boots and bright lights, she found herself not only wanting to stay for that but everything else too. She writes: 'I knew it was nicknamed Music City, due to its long and influential history in the music industry, but I assumed this began and ended with country tunes. I couldn't have been more wrong.'

The largest animal welfare charity in the UK said we need to 'radically' rethink our relationship with all animals as it launches a new campaign to mark its 200th year. The video features various different animals singing Respect by Aretha Franklin as spiders are swatted and a bee is caught in a landmower. In comparison, the second half of the video shows people treating the animals with respect, for example by removing a snail from the pavement. Gareth Wyn Jones, a Welsh hill farmer, said the video was 'a kick in the teeth', and had left 'a lot of angry farmers'.

Since moving to concentrate on being a single mother and a grandparent, the legendary RnB icon, 54, is restarting her career.

Dear Bel, I'm a truck driver who works a 15-hour day at 73. I married a posh girl I adored in my twenties because she was skinny. (I hate myself for this), but if a woman put on weight I'd engineer a split.) We had two children that I loved, but she had an affair. Pat, a 7-year-old girl, became my st., so we split up but stayed friends. I went to Thailand with a friend to enjoy bachelor life, but I started a four-year relationship. It was because I didn't marry because I wasn't interested.

I'll never forget watching a young, working-class Liverpool girl take the spotlight in 2010. Rebecca Ferguson was her name. This week, Rebecca appeared before the cross-party Women and Equalities Committee to testify for the Misogyny in Music investigation. Women in the music industry face 'endemic' discrimination,' according to the report, which was described as a "boys' club." Ferguson had some success with her debut album and a few TV appearances. In 2012, she announced that she would be suing her management company; they had been doing her jobs until she died.

He's back with a bizarre new comedy special, which includes the admission that he attended Aretha Franklin's funeral in 2018 while high on ketamine. Turbo Fonzarelli, Pete Davidson's latest Netflix stand-up special, is strangely lacking in content based on his late father, Scott Matthew Davidson's. Although the 30-year-old former Saturday Night Live actor makes a quip about his father's tragic death in the latest iteration, he has included some quips mocking him for not getting back to the dating game decades after his father's death.

Pete Davidson has admitted that he was high on ketamine when he attended Aretha Franklin's funeral in 2018. In his Netflix special Pete Davidson: Turbo Fonzarelli, the comedian, 30, who has previously revealed that he took the dissociative drug every four years, said he was embarrassed by the event.

Laura Lynch, the founder of Dixie Chicks, had an obituary by mistakenly using a photograph of a living CBC producer with the same name. Laura Lynch of the 'Chicks,' also known as 'Dixie chicks' died on Friday after a head on collision in Texas on Friday at the age of 65. The crash happened about 5:40 p.m., just south of El Paso. Laura Lynch, a journalist with CBC, has no connection with 'The Dixie Chicks.'

The television schedule for December 25 has been leaked ahead of the big day, with BBC One planning to air Toy Story 4 straight after the King's address. According to The Mirror, the Pixar film will be shown on BBC One on Christmas Day.

Last week, the black and white jacket, which was sported by the actor in the Pepsi commercial in 1984, was one of more than 200 pieces of music memorabilia auction in London. George Michael's leather and denim La Rocka jacket he wore to duet with Aretha Franklin in I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) was worth £93,750. Amy Winehouse's beehive hairpiece for her 2007 film You Know I'm No Good sold for £18,750.

In three stunning photographs, the model, 36, collaborated with Tiffany & Co. to show a necklace, bracelet, ring, and earrings, all gold. She nipped her hand inside her massive white jacket, bringing her focus to her stunning gold necklace. Rosie then appeared only in the bottom half, crossing her hands on her thigh so that the gold ring and bangle took center stage. The mother-of-two wrote the article: 'Daydreamin' and I'm thinkin' of you.' Take a look at my heart floating away from Aretha Franklin's 1972 song Day Dreaming.

Legend Aretha Franklin's childhood home in Detroit has been auctioned and sold for $355k, nearly $24,000 less than the asking price despite being re-listed in May.

Aretha Franklin's childhood home in Detroit has officially sold for $355k after being listed on the market earlier this year. In August 2018, Respect, the Queen of Soul, died at the age of 76 following a battle with pancreatic cancer. Per TMZ, the actress was born in Tennessee in 1946 but moved to a three-story Detroit home in the La Salle Gardens neighborhood at five years old and lived in the house until she was 18.

Phyllis, Janice Chapple's mother, told her that she would inherit all of her worldly possessions by the time she arrives. And when her mother died in 2012, leaving her estate to Janice's stepfather Vic, she was positive the family fortune would come to her one day. Phyllis had made up a mirror with Vic, and had told Janice that whoever died first would pass their estate to the other. Then, when the first partner died, the couple's joint finances would be sent to Janice, the couple's only child. So, when Vic died the following year, Janice, 74, was devastated to learn that Phyllis' possessions, including her home, had been left to her cleaner. Vic had written his will in an unnoticed manner to Janice.

This is the dramatic moment when late, great Tony Bennett left Yankee Stadium with a stunning interpretation of 'America the Beautiful' ahead of Game 1 of the World Series in 1998. Fans reminiscing on some of his most popular times after the American crooner and jazz singer died on Friday at the age of 96. One of them was a spectacular night at Yankee Stadium in 1998, when New York native Bennett stepped out in front of a full house to perform in the World Series's first game.

A jury has found a valid Michigan will on a paper handwritten by Aretha Franklin and discovered in her couch after her 2018 death. The controversy, which has pitted the legendary singers' sons against each other, has been a victory for Kecalf Franklin and Edward Franklin, whose lawyers had argued that papers from 2014 would overrule a 2010 will that was discovered in a locked cabinet at the Queen of Souls' house in suburban Detroit. When Aretha Franklin died at the age of 76, she did not leave behind a formal, typewritten will. Both documents, with scribbles and hard-to-decipher passages, only became available in 2019 when a niece scoured the house for records.

On Monday, Aretha Franklin's sons appeared in Pontiac, Michigan, to determine which of two wills is legal. Franklin died in August 2018, at the age of 76. Franklin had four sons. Ted, 60, was the executor of her estate's in 2010, according to a contract signed by Franklin in 2010. However, a handwritten version from 2014 emerged after being found stuffed down a couch, in which Ted's name was crossed out and Kecalf's name was introduced as executor. Kecalf will inherit her home in Bloomfield Hills, an upscale suburb north of Detroit.

Despite years of health issues and attempts to get one done, the Queen of Soul, who had four sons, did not have a formal, typewritten will in place. However, it's still possible to treat other documents - with scribbles, scratch-outs, and hard-to-read passages as her instructions (one informal will be pictured inset). One son is fighting two others in this conflict. Ted White II (pictured right) believes that newspapers dating back to 2010 should mainly control the estate, while Kecalf Franklin (pictured bottom right on his mother's 72nd birthday) and Edward Franklin favor a 2014 chart. Both were discovered in Franklin's suburban Detroit suburb, months after she died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 76.

In the poll, the top chart in 1976 found which tracks we can't get to, and that we shouldn't resist having one. Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson's Uptown Funk, the most recent song on a list dominated by golden oldies, is 2015's Uptown Funk, the most recent song in the top ten. Tina Turner has two songs on the list: Proud Mary at 11 and Simply the Best at 13, while Aretha Franklin rounds off the 30 with her 1967 hit Respect. According to the survey, respondents ranked modesty aside, 46 percent of those polled say they are a natural dancer, breaking into a boogie an average of eight times a week.

Sumeke Rainey, West's high school crush, was still dating him when he first began dating him. Her father was the one who gifted West with a box of Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, and Aretha Franklin records, which he later sampled on his 2004 debut album, "The College Dropout." When a girl asks West if he knows Kweli, it's actually Sumeke's voice. In "Never Let Me Down," he raps about the promise he made to her father on his deathbed that he'd eventually marry her: "Nothing sad" as the day her girl's father passed away "I promise to marry your daughter." Their friendship didn't last, and he speculated at the reasons for "Late Registration"'s "Touch the Sky." "I sent the plane tickets right away, but when she decided to kick it, it became different," he says. "I cheated on, sheets. I skeeted on, and I couldn't keep it at home." I thought I needed a Nia Long." The exact date of their breakup is uncertain, but it is likely that it occurred in the late 1990s.

Prue MacSween, a controversial Australian social commentator, has been suspended for quoting Aretha Franklin's song Respect in a tribute post to Tina Turner. MacSween, 71, thanked Turner for 'bringing such joy' on Twitter before ending the post with 'R.E.C.T.' MacSween told Daily Mail Australia that the radio star was'mistaking' the two artists.

The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese has been Oprah's new addition to her book club. She told DailyMail.com that she knew it was making her coveted list within the first three pages. I usually go through like ten-12 books before I get to the real thing,' says the former show host, 69.

The cancer, which has claimed the lives of celebrities such as Alan Rickman, Aretha Franklin, and Patrick Swayze, has been diagnosed late, with only 7 percent of those diagnosed living for five years or longer. However, thousands of people's lives could be saved by a breath test that detects molecules created by tumors, according to experts. Imperial College London researchers conducted the experiment, which was carried out with a breathalyser-type device in a GP surgery. 64 patients were tested during the study, the results of which were published in the British Journal of Surgery. The test revealed that 81 percent of patients with pancreatic cancer had an 81% risk.