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Aretha Franklin’s First Live Album Turns 50: How ‘Aretha in Paris’ Heralded a Queen

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In 1968, history’s most important female singer recorded her first live album, a collection of earth-shattering covers that tilted a musical paradigm—a full body blow of emotion.

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