Fans pay last respects to Aretha Franklin
By DW
29 August 2018 |
1:24 pm
Thousands of people are lining up in Detroit where the singer's body is lying in state, in a gold-plated casket dressed completely in red, ahead of a private funeral on Friday. The 76-year-old singer died earlier this month from pancreatic cancer.
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