Word: ronstadt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What fascinated reporters in Africa more than Brown's remarks, however, was his traveling companion: Rock Star Linda Ronstadt. For some time, the bachelor politician, 41, and the singer, nine years his junior, have been linked in gossip columns, and it was even rumored that they were going to the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro to get married. The singer's arrival in Africa guaranteed enormous press coverage for Brown -but perhaps not entirely the kind he wanted. Reporters and photographers camped outside hotel rooms and mobbed the couple whenever they appeared. (Their hotel cottage in Kenya...
...presented Brown with a check for $1,000 made out to the "Jerry Brown for President Committee." The Governor gave it back, saying that he was not yet a candidate. At week's end he was off on another trip, this time with a close friend, Singer Linda Ronstadt, and to a presumably friendlier destination: Africa, for a ten-day tour...
...outside the Lost Horizon disco at the Wailea Beach Hotel; the Royal Lahaina's Foxy Lady packs in upper teenagers and the Tommy Dorsey set in equal numbers. The island's hottest spot is the Bluemax, in the town of Lahaina, where visiting Elton John and Linda Ronstadt have done their stuff off the cuff; the place is packed nightly in hopes that other drop-in stars may relieve the resident combo...
...answering questions spontaneously, whether from newsmen or his varied audiences. He dazzled a crowded auditorium of students at Washington's Georgetown University, even though the noisiest applause came when one of the students unfurled a sign asking HOW'S LINDA? Brown, who has been seeing Singer Linda Ronstadt, looked away in embarrassment, then replied: "She's in Australia, working. Beyond that...
...Stones, the Beatles, the Who all carry the weight of tradition with ease. But Elton John, performing in concert, sounds as if he's singing in a record-your-voice booth; Janis Joplin, desperate to please, sings blues with the synthetic soul of a Broadway belter; Linda Ronstadt's coy version of a great Jagger-Richards tune might more appropriately be retitled Fumbling Dice. Thoughts of decadence and decline occur; Donna Summer appears. But then Jimmy Cliff shows up, singing The Harder They Come, and the balance is redressed. By the time the show ends, with a flourish...