Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The new biopic "Respect" runs through two decades of Aretha Franklin's life in 2½ hours, starting at age 9 and culminating with ...

Aretha Franklin, the long-reigning Queen of Soul, is a benevolent and generous monarch. On top of every other accolade that's been laid at her feet over the last half-century, a prestigious collective ...

Even for a Grammy and Oscar winner like Jennifer Hudson, singing live as Aretha Franklin in the new biopic “Respect” was a daunting prospect. “It’s tricky,” Hudson, 39, told In Style. “You don’t want ...

Musical biopics are catnip for the Academy actors' branch. Actors will love Liesl Tommy’s Aretha Franklin biopic “Respect.” Thirteen years after the Queen of Soul first approached Jennifer Hudson, who ...

A 1967 classic by Aretha Franklin took the top spot on a list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time." The track also marks a major personal record for Franklin after it became her No. 1 best-selling ...

You probably already have this soulful legend's iconic tune in your head before I even have to type it. That's right; on this day, 59 years ago, Aretha Franklin's cover of "Respect" took the top spot ...

Give her the proper respect: Jennifer Hudson stuns with her performance singing and inhabiting the life of musical royalty, even if the new Aretha Franklin biopic leans conventionally commonplace.

(WTRF) – Rolling Stone has released its latest list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and the Queen of Soul is at the top. Aretha Franklin’s “Respect” topped the list as the No. 1 song, according ...