Aretha Franklin

Year:
1987
Inducted by:
Keith Richards (Rolling Stones)
Category:
Performers

Introduction

Lady Soul.

The first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Aretha Franklin was an artist of passion, sophistication and command, whose recordings remain anthems that defined soul music. Long live the Queen.

Keith Richards Inducts Aretha Franklin

Keith Richards Inducts Aretha Franklin at the 1987 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

Keith Richards Inducts Aretha Franklin

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Clive Davis and Cecil Franklin Accept on Aretha Franklin's Behalf

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"Respect"

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"Think"

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"Theme from 'New York, New York'"

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"Chain of Fools"

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"Make Them Hear You"

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"Don't Play That Song"

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"Baby I Love You"

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"(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman"

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"Spirit In The Dark"

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"Until You Come Back To Me"

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"Spanish Harlem"

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"One Step Ahead"

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"It Hurts Like Hell"

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"He Never Lost A Fight"

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"Precious Memories"

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"Don't Play That Song"

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"I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Loved You)"

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"A Song For You"

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"A Change Is Gonna Come"

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"I Came to Lift Him Up"

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Hall of Fame Essay

1987

Michael Hill

Aretha Franklin was only twenty-five when she clinched the title of Lady Soul with her unforgettably proud, sexy, candid and confident 1967 version of Otis Redding’s ‘‘Respect.”

Franklin had already given notice of the sound of things to come with her first Jerry Wexler-produced single for Atlantic Records, “I Never Loved a Man (the Way l Love You),” cut at Rick Hall’s Fame Recording Studios, in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

That legendary one-day session marked not only the emergence of a prodigious talent but the start of a new era of fresh, forthright soul music.