Aretha Franklin: Queen for life and in death
Music’s greatest royal demanded ‘Respect’ — and earned it.
5 min readAug 16, 2018
The first two months of 1992 will go down in my personal history as a time of legends. I was several months into my first professional gig out of school, covering music as a reporter for People magazine. That January 21, my editor sent me to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony…