Linda Ronstadt’s singing voice has been silenced in recent years by Parkinson’s Disease, but listening to her on a long-lost concert recording was a very pleasurable flashback — with quite a back story, too.
My review of a new documentary about one of the all-time great singers who not only hit it big with rock and roll and ballads, but standards, traditional Mexican music, and Broadway, too.
I just re-listened to the live album Linda Ronstadt recorded in 1980, and noticed something I missed the first time.
So sad to hear that Linda Ronstadt will never sing again. She said in an interview yesterday that she has Parkinson’s Disease, which makes it impossible to control the muscles that let her sing. She also suffers from hand tremors and has to use a wheelchair. My father died of a disease related to Parkinson’s, […]
Here are seven documentaries from this year I heartily recommend to you, with subjects including Bill Russell, Albert Brooks, Yogi Berra, and why we should look again at nuclear power.
If you bought rock albums during the singer-songwriter era of the 1970s, you often saw the names of four extraordinary musicians on the back covers. Here’s my review of a new documentary about them.
You might not think recent performances by Lady Gaga and Marc Maron could have anything in common, but they did. Let me explain.
Seeing Pat Benatar in concert again last night, I had the same question as when I first saw her 42 years ago: “How does such a huge sound come out of someone that small?” Here’s my review.
Here are the five best documentaries I saw this year. The top three were so good they could have been included on my overall Best Of 2019 list.
My review of “Rocketman,” based on the life of Elton John — child prodigy, brilliant musician, great showman, and rock megastar.