Gene Simmons “all those little girls out who are watching ‘America’s Got Talent’, shut up, get over yourself, sit down and listen to this music, because the new pop princesses have to understand that greatness once existed and her name was Aretha Franklin.”
Gene Simmons paid tribute to Aretha Franklin, the “Queen of Soul,” who died Thursday after it was reported earlier this week that she was “gravely ill” in Detroit. Her family said that the cause of death was advanced pancreatic cancer of the neuroendocrine type. During an appearance on HLN‘s Franklin tribute show on Thursday, the KISS bassist/vocalist was asked what Arethameant to him. […]