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Today Warner announce the release of the Aretha Franklin boxed set, A Portrait Of The Queen, featuring five classic albums from the early 70s, plus bonus material of session alternates, outtakes, B-sides, and demos.

The set features the Lady Souls five original studio albums from the first half of the 70s This Girls In Love With You, Spirit In The Dark, Young, Gifted And Black, Hey Now Hey (The Other Side Of The Sky) and Let Me In Your Life and tracks her evolution as a singer/songwriter, showcases the fearlessness of her craft freely exploring genres and sounds, experimenting with writing and arranging various types of songs. The CD set includes bonus material collecting session alternates, outtakes, B-sides, and demos compiled with their accompanying albums, while the LP set includes a sixth LP of highlights from the bonus material.

The albums in both the vinyl and CD sets are remastered from the original analog master tapes by GRAMMY Award-winning engineers Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering and Michael Graves at Osiris Studio, respectively. Produced by Grammy Award-winning Cheryl Pawelski, the sets boasts extensive liner notes from Billboards Gail Mitchell and the British Ambassador of Soul David Nathan.