Singer Linda Ronstadt turned 80 yesterday. She’s been a fixture for my entire life, though I have to admit that I don’t know her musical output very well at all. In retrospect I kind of wonder why this is; she sang in genres of music that my parents listened to a lot when I was a kid, and she sang those genres very, very well…and yet, somehow, I don’t recall any of her music ever getting played much at home, so she was relegated to whatever got played on the radio when we were out and about. It’s a shame, then, that for me she’s always been a person of whom I think, “OMG, who is that singing?!” and the answer, supplied by a DJ, is along the lines of, “That was Linda Ronstadt.” Apparently she is now permanently retired from singing, due to an ailment that has rendered her unable to do so, which is very sad; we could use a musical elder stateswoman or two right now.
I am also belatedly discovering what a stunningly beautiful woman she is and always has been!
Here she is with one of her best-known performances. This song is just stunning.
And finally, how could I not feature this image? I think I need to track down a photo book of Linda Ronstadt’s looks in the 70s and 80s….
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I have been championing Linda for decades: she has done folk, country, pop, musical theater, great American songbook, Mexican…
When she lost her voice, she FINALLY got into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which I had been championing years before.
And yeah, she’s long been gorgeous!