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Linda Ronstadt, born & raised on the US/Mexico border: “There’s a real conspiracy of international fascism that wants to defeat democracy. They want all the power for themselves, and I think that suits Donald Trump right now. He’d like to be a dictator.”
newyorker.com/culture/the-ne…
newyorker.com/culture/the-ne…
Linda Ronstadt, now battling #Parkinson's and unable to sing anymore, once collaborated with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra with a compendia of old favorites:
Since that @NewYorker piece on Linda Ronstadt sent me to listening, here she is singing "Lush Life."
Written by the great Billy Strayhorn, whose life was complicated by being black and gay in the decades before Stonewall. He was a jazz genius.
Written by the great Billy Strayhorn, whose life was complicated by being black and gay in the decades before Stonewall. He was a jazz genius.
