NEW YORK (AP) --- When I got the chance to interview Aretha Franklin for the first time in 2001, I was already a bundle of nerves: Even though it was just over the phone, I'd be talking to THE Queen of Soul! You could get no closer to rock 'n' roll royalty than the Queen herself. So my trepidation was magnified when a colleague told me not to expect much: Franklin was famously guarded and known for giving short, to-the-point answers and little in the way of introspection. Sure enough, when we spoke on the topic at hand --- a VH1 Divas concert honoring her music --- Franklin didn't offer much at first. But then, I remembered that she was a huge "The Young and the Restless" fan, ...
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