Historical clue formulations

• Aretha Franklin hit ranked #1 on a Rolling Stone magazine "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list — 2024-01-08
• 2021 Aretha Franklin biopic — 2022-07-10
• Reason to bow — 2018-06-30
• Word repeatedly spelled out by Franklin — 2016-07-15
• Word spelled out in an Aretha Franklin hit — 2015-05-06
• Honor ... and #5 on a list by 40-/46-Across of the 500 greatest songs of all time — 2013-07-30
• 1967 hit for 42-Across — 2012-03-21
• 1967 #1 hit whose lyrics begin "What you want / Baby, I got it" — 2009-05-31
• 1967 #1 hit whose title is spelled out in the lyric — 2006-06-18
• Abide by — 2003-05-09
• Look up to — 2003-02-10
• Hero worship — 2002-08-09
• #1 song hit whose title is spelled out in the lyrics — 2001-07-01