‘US’ photo piece

[rick]

www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/pictures/linda-ronstadt-through-the-years-her-life-in-photos/

[fabtastique]

I’m really not sure about that lead photo …. Each time I see it, I feel like it doesn’t really look a lot like Linda

[RobGNYC]

Agree. Aaron Rapoport somehow managed to make her look like Marie Osmond. Linda didn’t always come out so great working with the big-name photographers—Milton Greene’s TIME cover session is another one that I thought missed. Ethan Russell and Jim Shea got her.

[MokyWI]

Jan 21, 2024 12:36:29 GMT -5 fabtastique said:

I’m really not sure about that lead photo …. Each time I see it, I feel like it doesn’t really look a lot like Linda

The photos by A. R. completely miss in my opinion. Are they pretty, yes. But they are all wrong at the same time. Never cared for them. Missing her essence. The jawline looks fake.

[eddiejinnj]

I do like the lead off photo. It is gorgeous though I get what others are saying about capturing her essence. Are the photos where she looks like a Star Wars princess by AR also? Those I dislike. eddiejinfl

[Biff McFly]

The US lead off photo is my all-time, number one favorite photo of Linda. I also like the photo of Linda singing wearing the brown Members Only jacket.

[warren]

Jan 21, 2024 17:52:36 GMT -5 RobGNYC said:

Agree. Aaron Rapoport somehow managed to make her look like Marie Osmond. Linda didn’t always come out so great working with the big-name photographers—Milton Greene’s TIME cover session is another one that I thought missed. Ethan Russell and Jim Shea got her.

I don't know about that. Marie Osmond doesn't look like Marie Osmond.

www.yahoo.com/entertainment/marie-osmond-not-worry-her-172159812.html

and Linda has looked like 10 or 15 different people through her life but I know what you mean.

[eddiejinnj]

I have to look up those photos I referenced and see if it is AR who took them. Welcome warren to the forum. I think you have posted before.

We going out and about today for my 39th bday (Milton Berle reference) to see what havoc we can wreak (really just going to yard sales, doing a few hr day trip with friends then dinner with different friends). eddiejinfl

PS: My Mom bought my bro and I Members Only jackets for Christmas one year. Mine was a slightly off-white wool one with kind of a prairie collar. As the Bunkers sang "Those were the Days".

[erik]

This is just my opinion, but I think Linda had this tendency to be like a chameleon not only in terms of her music, but in terms of how she appeared in public from year to year, sometimes even appearing different in different photographs from the same calendar year. For instance, in the final four months of 1977, there were pictures of Linda with straight hair and dressed in her famous Cub Scout uniform, and then her hair was frizzy (e.g., her concert in Houston in November 1977 that was filmed for part of the film F.M.). Even at the beginning of her career, up until 1971-72, Linda's hippie look was consistently shifting, from the Betsy Johnson dress to the shawl she wore for the cover of Hand Sown, Home Grown.

Linda just loved doing this kind of fashion shift of hers because it was just part-and-parcel of who she was. I always felt that she was a beautiful person in a completely normal way; who and what you saw in Linda was actually Linda, regardless of the musical style she was involved in, be it rock, country, American standards, or mariachi.

[RobGNYC]

Linda in her Playboy interview (April 1980): “Kenny Edwards said he hadn't heard any music that made him want to change his hair style and I thought, Well, if I cut my hair, it might inspire me.”

[Richie]

And Linda was born in 1946, not 1947. Just sayin.

[eddiejinnj]

Welcome to the forum, Richie!! eddijeinfl