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 t...
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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