Aretha Franklin has recruited Andre 3000 and Babyface for her new album. Franklin says we can expect songs like Donna Summer’s “Last Dance” and Barbra Streisand’s “People” on the album. But she’s also considering tackling Beyonce. (Yes, please.) I’d kill to hear Auntie Ree take us to church with “Halo” or dig deeper and go the Destiny’s Child route. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
Dishing what’s sweet, and sour, from the week in music. By Gerrick Kennedy
Fans waiting 14 years for D’Angelo’s comeback album got treated to a previously unreleased track last week. The soul crooner spun Al Green’s “I’m Still in Love With You” into a six-minute meditation of jazzy R&B. The track was recorded during a 1995 show in London, part of which became a Japan-only live album. As for that studio album? Who knows at this point. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
A trove of drawings and writings by John Lennon is going up for auction to further cash in on the latest surge of Beatlemania. The collection will include doodles, gibberish poems and a manuscript for a Sherlock Holmes parody that Lennon penned in 1965; it’s expected to go for as much as $60,000. (Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images)
