*In a fur coat and pom-pom hat supporting her hometown Detroit Lions, Aretha Franklin sat at a piano in Ford Field before her team’s Thanksgiving Day game against the Vikings and delivered what just ...

DETROIT — Aretha Franklin is the Queen of Soul, and while her rendition of the national anthem was soulful before Thursday's NFL game between Detroit and Minnesota, some critics believed the song was ...

When Franklin recorded the song, she wasn't trying to make it into a political anthem, David Ritz, author of the biography "Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin," said in an interview with The Post.