In 1972, the Queen of Soul recorded a live album at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in LA. After her death, the film has been released... Nearly a half-century ago at a Baptist church in ...

Until the discovery of the film of “Amazing Grace,” the genius of the work of Alexander Hamilton was not as well known as it is now. For those familiar, Hamilton’s co-starring role conducting the ...

Fifty years ago this week, Aretha Franklin went into a Missionary Baptist church in Los Angeles and recorded a transcendent two-LP album that became a landmark of American music. “Amazing Grace” went ...

Great albums are recorded and released every year, but I can make a very strong argument that 1972 saw more truly great albums released than any year before or since. To be more precise, I can make ...

The singer says the new film showing her 1972 performance violated her rights to name and likeness and invaded her privacy. By Eriq Gardner, Matthew Belloni After a 90-minute hearing in a Denver ...

Aretha Franklin documentary Amazing Grace, which tells the story of the singer’s 1972 gospel album, is subject of more legal issues. The film, which was mired in limbo for 46 years as a result of ...

The producer of the Aretha Franklin documentary Amazing Grace has agreed to a 30-day ban on showing the film. The move follows legal disputes over the picture, which resulted in an emergency 14-day ...

As a child, Aretha "Re" Franklin (Skye Dakota Turner) lives with her domineering father, the Rev. C.L. Franklin (Forest Whitaker), in Detroit, along with her siblings and their grandmother, Mama ...

Alexander Hamilton, who died Jan. 28 at age 77, was a conductor and arranger who was able to add “movie star” to his credits in the last years of his life. His work on Aretha Franklin‘s 1972 “Amazing ...