Whitney Houston at Madison Square Garden in her first concert appearance here since the fall of 1985. Fans who couldn't get their hands on tickets have been snapping up her current album, "Whitney," which already has logged 3 million sales. (Photo by Richard Corkery/NY Daily News via Getty Images)
MEMPHIS, TN – 1965: Soul singer Otis Redding poses for a full length portrait in Memphis, Tennessee in 1965. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
Singer Aretha Franklin rehearsing for Inaugural Eve program for newly elected US President Jimmy Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale at the Kennedy Center. (Photo by Sahm Doherty/Getty Images)
