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The Post Pride 2024 playlist: From Diana Ross and Janet Jackson to Lady Gaga and Beyoncé
It’s the second weekend of Pride Month, so we got a whole lotta shaking and celebrating to do before the end of June. Let’s get this party started with some...
Aretha Franklin only wanted her own music played during photo shoots according to her personal photographer
Franklin's photographer is honoring the Queen of Soul with a new art book, "Aretha Cool." There's even a Spotify playlist.
Aretha Franklin once hired three make-up artists to paint her face for one event
Franklin's former publicist revealed the story in a tribute to celebrity makeup artist Reggie Wells, who died on Jan. 8.
Pete Davidson was high on ketamine at Aretha Franklin's funeral: 'I have to live with that'
"It’s embarrassing. I’m so high, I thought it would be a good idea to go up to her family and go, 'Hey, I’m just here to pay my R-E-S-P-E-C-T…S,'" Davidson...
Pete Davidson was high on ketamine at Aretha Franklin's funeral, told family he'd like to 'pay his R-E-S-P-E-C-Ts'
"I'm embarrassed I was out and about like that. That's not cool," the stand-up comic says in his new Netflix special, "Turbo Fonzarelli."
Aretha Franklin's abandoned Detroit Mansion sold years after her death
At 18261 Hamilton Road, this mansion had remained empty for years -- and all the while remained privately owned.
Aretha Franklin's handwritten will found in sofa ruled valid by jury
The 2014 document settled the debate over how the Queen of Soul's estate will be divided amongst her sons.
Handwritten 2014 document discovered in Aretha Franklin's couch cushions is legal will: jury
Aretha Franklin's 2014 handwritten will that was found in the singer's couch cushions was deemed to be valid by a Michigan jury following a two-day trial.
Jury decides on Aretha Franklin's barely legible handwritten wills at center of legal battle over her estimated $6M
The two wills at the center of a years-long legal battle over Aretha Franklin's estate are handwritten and barely legible -- and one must be deciphered by a jury.
Jury to decide if note found in Aretha Franklin's couch cushions is legal will for estimated $6M estate
A Michigan jury must decide whether a handwritten document found stuffed in Aretha Franklin's couch cushions is a valid will.
Aretha Franklin's sons battle over handwritten wills five years after her death
Five years after her death, ArethFranklin's final wishes are still unresolved.
Zoomin' Biden invokes Aretha Franklin when asked about visiting Ohio train derailment site
Biden made the remarks Friday afternoon while departing the White House for his vacation home in Wilmington.
How Aretha Franklin saved the Grammys
It had already been one hell of a night before the Queen of Soul stepped in.
Aretha Franklin 'Natural Woman' diss was 'satire,' trans 'activists' now claim
"This is satirical," said a direct message sent to The Post on the group's Twitter account. That contradicts a now-deleted tweet in which they claimed it was not a parody...
Trans activists want Aretha Franklin song 'A Natural Woman' yanked from streaming platforms
One activist group is calling for Aretha Franklin's hit 1968 song "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" to be removed from both Apple Music and Spotify after they...
My Christmas-in-NYC playlist: Tunes keeping the city singing and hanging on
In a city that’s somehow still singing and wobbling along this holiday season after two tough years, love’s really the only way for New Yorkers to measure a year.
King Curtis was the greatest musician you’ve never heard of
King Curtis was at the peak of his career when he died, at 37, in 1971. He had backed Aretha Franklin at her landmark shows at the Fillmore West, and...
FBI tracked Aretha Franklin for 40 years, declassified documents show
Aretha Franklin was tracked by the FBI for 40 years as the agency repeatedly sought -- but ultimately failed -- to tie her to "extremists" and "radicals," newly declassified documents...
TikTok star Gayle on her foul-mouthed hit 'abcdefu': 'I was pissed'
Dropping the F bomb all over her viral hit “abcdefu,” 17-year-old TikTok sensation Gayle has the pop world buzzing.
Inside Whitney Houston’s secret torment for being gay, falling for a woman
Ten years after her death, a new book details Whitney Houston's inner torment over being gay — and her secret love affair with Robyn Crawford.