Linda Ronstadt takes us through the highlights of her back catalogue in the current issue of Uncut, out now.
The country-rock chanteuse discusses how she effectively formed the Eagles, why she took left-turns into mariachi and jazz, and how she copes today with Parkinson’s disease.
“I really was terrible in the beginning,” laughs Ronstadt. “I had no idea what I was doing. It wasn’t until about 1980 that I really started to learn how to sing.
“Life got a little bit more isolated then,” she explains, recalling the huge success of albums such as 1974’s Heart Like A Wheel. “It became a little bit more difficult to go to the market and shop because people would say, ‘Sign your autograph’, while I was trying to buy chicken.”
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