Unabridged. Compact discs. In container (14 x 17 cm.). Read by Mel Foster.
Contents:
All hail the Queen! -- Detroit, 1989 -- The Queen of Soul -- The gospel years -- Aretha sings the blues -- Aretha arrives -- Young, gifted, and Black -- Trouble in mind -- Aretha jumps to it -- The freeway back to the top -- The spirit of Detroit -- Denouement, 1989 -- A rose is still a rose : the 1990s and beyond -- So damn happy -- How does Aretha keep the music playing?
Summary:
Mark Bego documents the beloved singing star's rocky personal life and internationally acclaimed show business career. An in-depth and frank examination of Aretha, Bego traces her career from her beginnings as a twelve-year-old member of a church choir in the early 1950s, recording her first album at the age of fourteen, a major recording contract at eighteen, and stardom in her twenties, right up through her headline-grabbing 2010 health scare, to her triumphant return singing to cheering Detroit hometown fans in the summer of 2011.
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