PHOTOS: Fans attend viewing for Aretha Franklin

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PHOTOS: Fans attend viewing for Aretha Franklin

Fans attend viewing for Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin, who died of pancreatic cancer. She will be buried in Detroit on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2018.

DETROIT, MI - AUGUST 28: Fans of Aretha Franklin attend a viewing for the soul music legend at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History on August 28, 2018 in Detroit, Michigan. Franklin will lie in repose at the museum today and tomorrow for the public to pay their respects. Franklin's funeral will be held Friday at Greater Grace Temple. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

DETROIT, MI - AUGUST 28: Fans of Aretha Franklin attend a viewing for the soul music legend at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History on August 28, 2018 in Detroit, Michigan. Franklin will lie in repose at the museum today and tomorrow for the public to pay their respects. Franklin's funeral will be held Friday at Greater Grace Temple. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Swanson Funeral Home's 1936 LaSalle hearse is parked outside the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018, in Detroit. The hearse transported the gold casket of Aretha Franklin to the museum where she will lay in state for two days. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

DETROIT, MI - AUGUST 28: Fans of Aretha Franklin attend a viewing for the soul music legend at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History on August 28, 2018 in Detroit, Michigan. Franklin will lie in repose at the museum on August 28 and 29 for the public to pay their respects. Her funeral will be held August 31 at Greater Grace Temple. (Photo by Paul Sancya-Pool/Getty Images)

DETROIT, MI - AUGUST 28: Fans of Aretha Franklin attend a viewing for the soul music legend at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History on August 28, 2018 in Detroit, Michigan. Franklin will lie in repose at the museum today and tomorrow for the public to pay their respects. Franklin's funeral will be held Friday at Greater Grace Temple. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

DETROIT, MI - AUGUST 28: Fans of Aretha Franklin attend a viewing for the soul music legend at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History on August 28, 2018 in Detroit, Michigan. Franklin will lie in repose at the museum today and tomorrow for the public to pay their respects. Franklin's funeral will be held Friday at Greater Grace Temple. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

DETROIT, MI - AUGUST 28: A fan of Aretha Franklin sits inside a vintage Cadillac after viewing the soul music legend's body as it lies in repose at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History on August 28, 2018 in Detroit, Michigan. Franklin will lie in repose at the museum today and tomorrow for the public to pay their respects. Franklin's funeral will be held Friday at Greater Grace Temple. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

A woman poses for a photo with a pink Cadillac parked in front of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in honor of a public viewing of Aretha Franklin, in Detroit, Aug. 28, 2018. (Laura McDermott/The New York Times)

Visitors take photos of a pink Cadillac parked in front of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in honor of a public viewing of Aretha Franklin, in Detroit, Aug. 28, 2018. (Laura McDermott/The New York Times)

DETROIT, MI - AUGUST 28: Fans of Aretha Franklin attend a viewing for the soul music legend at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History on August 28, 2018 in Detroit, Michigan. Franklin will lie in repose at the museum today and tomorrow for the public to pay their respects. Franklin's funeral will be held Friday at Greater Grace Temple. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

DETROIT, MI - AUGUST 28: Fans of Aretha Franklin attend a viewing for the soul music legend at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History on August 28, 2018 in Detroit, Michigan. Franklin will lie in repose at the museum today and tomorrow for the public to pay their respects. Franklin's funeral will be held Friday at Greater Grace Temple. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Aretha Franklin's casket arrives at the Charles H. Wright museum in Detroit on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018. Franklin will lay in state for 2 days. (Kimberly P. Mitchell/Detroit Free Press/TNS)

Fans attend the viewing for Aretha Franklin at Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, Aug. 28, 2018. (Paul Sancya/Pool via The New York Times) -- FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. --

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DETROIT, MI - AUGUST 28: Fans of Aretha Franklin attend a viewing for the soul music legend at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History on August 28, 2018 in Detroit, Michigan. Franklin will lie in repose at the museum today and tomorrow for the public to pay their respects. Franklin's funeral will be held Friday at Greater Grace Temple. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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