Commentary: Long live the Queen

The Queen is dead.

Aretha Louise Franklin, a preacher’s daughter who was broadly acclaimed as the greatest singer of the last half-century — indeed, one of the greatest singers in the history of American song — died of pancreatic cancer Thursday at her home in Detroit, surrounded by family and friends. She was 76.

Here’s a link to the editorial at the Chicago Tribune.

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