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Franklin surgery a success

By | Published on Friday 3 December 2010

Aretha Franklin underwent “highly successful” surgery in Detroit yesterday for an undisclosed health problem, a spokesman has confirmed. The medical treatment follows an announcement the queen of soul would be cancelling all live performances between now and next May. 

No details about the illness have been given, though a statement from Franklin yesterday said: “I had superb doctors and nurses whom were blessed by all the prayers of the city and the country”. 

That was certainly true, Detroit council woman JoAnn Watson had organised a prayer vigil in the city on Wednesday to ask God to, erm, I don’t know, guide the surgeon’s hands perhaps.



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