The Latest Breaking News from Aretha Franklin

From a slice of cucumber to a sticky cuddle, celebrities reveal their essential companion for a blue-sky day

‘Horrified’ reader tracks down Indigenous leader to explain harsh words are not hers. Plus: tabloids smell blood as Michael Rowland takes a break

The double bass loyalist who rejected the rising wave of electric basses in the '70s worked with Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Gordon Lightfoot and more, and scored Spike's first four feature films

The music legend has just released a fabulously filthy album. He looks back on his incredible life in songwriting, and his friendships with Marvin Gaye, Berry Gordy and Aretha Franklin

Those Sydney Sweeney Glen Powell dating rumors are flooding social media. But are they just close co-stars or something more?

“Eat, Pray, Love” is so over — ladies, we’ve officially entered the “Threaten, Extort, Kill” era. This unusual new ethos of empowerment is the guiding theory behind Catherine Hardwicke’s crime comedy/feminist manifesto “Mafia Mamma,” starring Toni Collette as Kristin, a harried American mom and marketing exec who discovers her own…

What could have been a cheap final cash-in turns out to be a rich origin story for the nostalgic singer

“Liverpool, it’s great to be back”

Former BET Chief Executive Debra Lee is getting candid about her tenure at the cable network in her new memoir, "I Am Debra Lee," sharing advice for women who want to succeed in corporate America, details about her extramarital affair with BET co-founder Bob Johnson and how she stood up…

Ain't Nobody hit singer Chaka Khan has unleashed a furious rant as she branded those who ranked her at number 29 on the 200 best singers of all time Tolling Stone list

The singer and musical star on her role as suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst in a hip-hop stage show, her contempt for the home secretary and her ambition to play Aretha Franklin