'Simple Dreams' LP review: Village Voice

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from The Village Voice, November 7, 1977

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There's a part that is difficult to read-- this is what I see:

Ronstadt works in the midst of a large community of girl singers in L.A. who support and encourage one another's work. She should be given credit ...

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Tony--that's how I read it too. I wasn't familiar with Susan Lydon, here is her NY Times obituary:

Susan Gordon Lydon, 61, Feminist Author and Rolling Stone Editor, Dies
By The Associated Press
July 26, 2005

OAKLAND, Calif., July 25 - Susan Gordon Lydon, a founding editor of Rolling Stone magazine who wrote a benchmark feminist essay and turned her struggle with drug addiction into a memoir, died on July 15 in Boca Raton, Fla. She was 61.

The cause was cancer, her family said.

Ms. Lydon and her former husband, Michael Lydon, were among the first journalists Jann Wenner asked to work for Rolling Stone. Ms. Lydon covered fashion and music and in 1970 wrote the feminist essay "The Politics of Orgasm," now required reading in women's studies classes at many American universities.

By 1971, Ms. Lydon quit the magazine to raise her daughter Shuna, and she and her husband divorced. She later wrote for Ramparts, a left-wing publication.

Susan Lydon was born Nov. 14, 1943, in the Bronx, N.Y., and grew up on Long Island. She received a full scholarship in 1961 to Vassar, where she studied history.

After her marriage broke up, Ms. Lydon began a romance with Dave Getz, the drummer for Big Brother and the Holding Company, and lived with him in Marin County.

In 1975, Ms. Lydon moved with her daughter to New York City, where she wrote for The Village Voice, The Daily News and The New York Times.

Ms. Lydon struggled with drug addiction in the 1980's but eventually recovered at a facility in Massachusetts, her daughter said.

Ms. Lydon later moved back to the Bay Area, worked for The Oakland Tribune and wrote several books, including her memoir "Take the Long Way Home," published in 1993.

She was a passionate knitter and wrote two books on the subject: "The Knitting Sutra: Craft as a Spiritual Practice," was released in 2004 and its sequel, "Knitting Heaven and Earth: Healing the Heart with Craft," was released this summer.

In addition to her daughter, Ms. Lydon is survived by her mother, Eve Gordon, her sisters, Lorraine Garnett and Sheila Wolff, and her brother, Ricky Ian Gordon.

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Ramparts Magazine. I had forgotten that publication. I used to read that back when I was in high school. and Rags. and Cheetah. and Eye. and Rolling Stone. and Creem. Unfortunately all gone because I had no room for such a hoard.

I grabbed this Village Voice review from Google Books. They have many, but not all, issues of the Village Voice available online. I was looking to buy this issue for the website because I knew it had Ronstadt content but every copy I found for sale was offered for about $50.