Aretha Franklin Dead: Paul McCartney, Chance the Rapper, Diana Ross, More React

Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, died today at the age of 76. The music world has reacted to her passing. Below, see tributes and remembrances from Paul McCartney, Chance the Rapper, Diana Ross, Carole King, Clive Davis, Arcade Fire’s Win Butler, Liam Gallagher, John Legend, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and more.

In the days leading to her death, Franklin was reported to have been “gravely ill.” Her family revealed, in a statement via her publicist, that she died due to advanced pancreatic cancer of the neuroendocrine type.

Read Pitchfork’s Sunday Review of Aretha Franklin’s 1970 record Spirit in the Dark, as well as the Afterword feature “How Aretha Franklin Earned Her Crown as the Queen of Soul.”