Readers won't be scandalized or even surprised by Bego's ( Aretha
Franklin ) "unauthorized biography" of the pop singer extraordinaire.
The author is obviously a big fan of Ronstadt's, and his biography
intersperses the facts of her life with effusive praise of her musical
accomplishments. Bego takes us from Ronstadt's childhood in Tucson,
Ariz., where she first became "mesmerized by music," through the
mid-1960s in Los Angeles as the lead singer for the Stone Poneys, her
superstar period as "the most successful female singer of the 1970s,"
and her forays into opera, jazz and mariachi music during the last
decade. Along the way, we learn, rather sketchily, about Ronstadt's
affairs with singer J. D. Souther, actor Albert Brooks, former
California governor Jerry Brown and filmmaker George Lucas, among
others. Bego relies on past interviews from a multitude of magazines and
newspapers, and although he has done a capable job of pasting together
quotes from various sources to create a coherent chronology, rarely does
he attempt to probe beneath the surface of Ronstadt's California cool.
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