The Queen: Aretha Franklin by Mikal GilmoreMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
This biography of The Queen of Soul feels weighted toward the Aretha's earliest years: pre-career to recording debut. Wow, a mother at 12 and again at 14 in a broken home. How did all this help form The Queen? That is not explored as much here, then the subsequent decades from crowning to death are briskly covered without analysis as if the author needed to quickly wrap up the project.
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