Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aretha Franklin was at the peak of her career and her creative powers when her gospel album “Amazing Grace” was released in 1972. ...

“Amazing Grace,” the much-anticipated movie of Aretha Franklin’s storied gospel concerts in 1972, will be shown in a one week run beginning Friday, April 19 at Frank Banko Alehouse Cinema at ArtsQuest ...

Music annals tell us about legendary lost projects that got released long after the fact. The Beach Boys' "Smile." Bob Dylan's "Basement Tapes." Prince's "Black Album." Now comes the holy grail: ...

The miraculous concert documentary “Amazing Grace” acts as a sublime tribute to the great Aretha Franklin. But the story behind its release is nearly as eventful and drama-filled as the final film.

It’s the closest thing to witnessing a miracle — just some cameras, a crowd and a voice touched by God. Over two days in January of 1972, Aretha Franklin got up to sing out her gospel at the New ...

Aretha Franklin bustled down the aisle of New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in her white dress and then slid behind a piano — an instant reminder of her formidable piano skills — for Marvin Gaye’s ...

Early in Amazing Grace, Reverend Dr. James Cleveland—the Grammy-winning choir director and, to many, the “King of Gospel”—reminds us why we’re here. This is a “religious service,” he says to the ...

(RNS) — Aretha Franklin, a singer who began her career with gospel music and was later crowned the “Queen of Soul,” died Thursday (Aug. 16) after battling a range of health issues. She was 76. Often ...

But “Amazing Grace” is not the greatest hits concert film you’d expect. “Amazing Grace” documents the two nights in January 1972, 47 years ago, that Franklin, at the height of her youthful fame, ...

Aretha Franklin was at the peak of her career and her creative powers when her gospel album “Amazing Grace” was released in 1972. (It sold more than two million copies and became her best-selling ...