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Aretha Franklin celebrates 74th birthday in Manhattan

NEW YORK (AP) — Aretha Franklin does not let her birthdays pass quietly.


The Queen of Soul celebrated her birthday with some 100 of her friends Thursday at the Ritz-Carlton in Manhattan for an evening of music and tributes. Franklin turned 74 on March 25.

She sat at a corner table with record executive Clive Davis and the Rev. Jesse Jackson among others, nodding her head along to performances by the Dizzy Gillespie All Stars and Dennis Edwards of Temptations fame.

All that was missing was Aretha Franklin music. Franklin herself let other singers have the stage, and the material ranged from the Gillespie band's cover of "Body and Soul" to Edwards' emotional performance of "Some Enchanted Evening."

A cake was wheeled out to a tape recording of Stevie Wonder's "Happy Birthday."

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-- (c) Associated Press 2016-04-15

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Thanks for this - wonderful.

In her old age, she has good shows and bad shows; on this one she put all the pretenders in their place.

So many modern female singers shake their bums and boobs for attention; Aretha just takes off her coat and knocks then all dead when she hits the high notes!

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