April 1985 came at a fascinating time in the world of pop music, and these five albums were released 40 years ago this month.

There isn’t a single song Aretha Franklin couldn’t improve ... Featured on her gospel-tinged album, Young, Gifted and Black, Franklin meditates on this song’s hidden message: love and ...

Reginald Kenneth Dwight was a 20-year-old session musician when he applied for a job at a London record label, and was paired ...

Navigating single motherhood without much education ... “She wanted to be like Aretha Franklin so much, man,” her son Gregory told me. His mother, who’d grown up in a house without plumbing ...

Five years after the chart-smashing ‘Tragic Kingdom’ album, ‘Return Of Saturn ... on R&B and Adult Contemporary fare like Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Sheena Easton, and Wilson Phillips.

In the end, his second solo album – following the success of ... Mercury said that the opera star “has that same kind of emotion as Aretha Franklin” and, as the co-producer (with Moran ...

Davis also brought Pink Floyd into the Columbia fold shortly before the venerable British rock act released its definitive album ... soul and pop divas like Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick ...

On this day in 1987, George Michael and Aretha Franklin’s “I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)” went to #1 on the Billboard charts, proving that good things really can happen when gays get to meet their ...

There’s a photo of Franklin with Martin Luther King Jr., a signed Andy Warhol print from his artwork for the 1986 album “Aretha,” two outfits from the 2021 biopic “Respect.” And there ...