When celebrity author Mark Bego originally wrote his 1989 biography, “Aretha Franklin: Queen of Soul,” he had no idea that it would be updated three times, the latest being the new “Tribute Edition” of the book by Skyhorse Publishing, which puts her career in perspective since her death at 76 in August....
RCA Records is the latest to try to spin another sign of the music industry's decline--the closing of imprints, Arista and Jive--into something positive....
