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Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir
Linda Ronstadt
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Description for Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir
Paperback. Linda Ronstadt's charming memoir about her education as a singer, from humble origins in rural Arizona to performing at Madison Square Garden. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16-pp b-w photo insert. BIC Classification: AVGL; AVGP; AVH; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 252.
Linda Ronstadt was born in 1946 to a modest family outside Tucson. From an early age, she, her brother and sister began making their own music, eventually performing their own shows in the folk and Mexican traditions of the area. By the time Ronstadt was in community college, she realized the music scene in LA was where she wanted to be, just in time for the folk revival that was sweeping the nation. Despite some setbacks with her first band-the Stone Poneys-she quickly found her niche as a soloist with the new record label run by David Geffen. Soon she was touring with Neil Young, and soon after that was a major figure in her own right. By the time she retired in 2009, Linda Ronstadt had spent four decades as one of the most popular singers in the world. But throughout her career, as she writes, she stuck to one simple dream: to perform good music authentically. In her debut as a writer, she describes her journey with the same subtlety and gracefulness with which she has sung, so beautifully, longingly, and honestly.
Product Details
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781451668735
SKU
V9781451668735
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About Linda Ronstadt
Linda Ronstadt is the 11-time Grammy-winning singer of a number of rock and country standards. She lives in San Francisco with her family.
Reviews for Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir
A well-written glimpse into musical history as it was being made by Ronstadt and her peers.
Publishers Weekly
A personable and engagingly written memoir... consistently interesting.
Kirkus
Musical memories galore.
Boston Globe
Ronstadt revisits, with a mixture of fine-grained insight and personal modesty, one of the most remarkable and wide-ranging singing careers in the last century of American popular music.
San Francisco Chronicle
For anyone fascinated by the cross-pollination of musical talent in Los Angeles' buzzing pre-corporate rock scene, Ronstadt's front-row seat offers a prime view. . . . While this bird can no longer sing, on the page she can still fly.
USA Today
True to her subtitle, Ms. Ronstadt delivers a life story stitched to the sails of her eclectic musical voyaging. . . . She has found another way to tell a story: through this winning and informative book, in which her intelligence, passion, humor and commitment shine forth from every page.
Tom Nolan
Wall Street Journal
Engaging and interesting. . . . entirely winning.
Jonathan Yardley
Washington Post
Publishers Weekly
A personable and engagingly written memoir... consistently interesting.
Kirkus
Musical memories galore.
Boston Globe
Ronstadt revisits, with a mixture of fine-grained insight and personal modesty, one of the most remarkable and wide-ranging singing careers in the last century of American popular music.
San Francisco Chronicle
For anyone fascinated by the cross-pollination of musical talent in Los Angeles' buzzing pre-corporate rock scene, Ronstadt's front-row seat offers a prime view. . . . While this bird can no longer sing, on the page she can still fly.
USA Today
True to her subtitle, Ms. Ronstadt delivers a life story stitched to the sails of her eclectic musical voyaging. . . . She has found another way to tell a story: through this winning and informative book, in which her intelligence, passion, humor and commitment shine forth from every page.
Tom Nolan
Wall Street Journal
Engaging and interesting. . . . entirely winning.
Jonathan Yardley
Washington Post