She garnered a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical and The Pirates of Penzance won several Tony Awards, including a Tony Award for Best Revival. Its members included Cajun fiddler Gib Guilbeau and John Beland, who later joined the Flying Burrito Brothers,[69] as well as Stan Pratt, Thad Maxwell, and Eric White, brother of Clarence White of the Byrds. [73] Although hesitant at first to work with her because of her reputation for being a "woman of strong opinions (who) knew what she wanted to do (with her career)", he nonetheless agreed to become her full-time producer,[75] and remained in that role through the late 1980s. "[53] She admires Callas for her musicianship and her attempts to push 20th-century singing, particularly opera, back into the bel canto "natural style of singing". Her guest appearances included the classical minimalist Philip Glass's album Songs from Liquid Days, a hit classical record with other major pop stars either singing or writing lyrics (Ronstadt's two tracks on the album saw her singing lyrics written by Suzanne Vega and Laurie Anderson). Selling over three million copies in the U.S. and winning them a Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, it produced four Top Ten Country singles including "To Know Him Is to Love Him" which hit number 1. ")[139], In December 1990, she participated in a concert held at the Tokyo Dome to commemorate John Lennon's 50th birthday, and to raise awareness of environmental issues. By December of that year, both "Blue Bayou" and "It's So Easy" had climbed into Billboard's Top 5 and remained there for the entire month. But being on the road took its toll both emotionally and professionally. That knack for choosing material served her well in the second half of the '70s, when she became a pop superstar interpreting songs by everyone from Dave Edmunds and Elvis Costello to Chuck Berry and Roy Orbison. Desperado 12. In 1991, she released Mas Canciones, a follow-up to the first Canciones. In 1982, Ronstadt released the album Get Closer, a primarily rock album with some country and pop music as well. She set records as one of the top-grossing concert artists of the decade. The production was part of the PBS Great Performances series. Although Ronstadt's duets, "Somewhere Out There" with James Ingram and "Don't Know Much" with Aaron Neville, peaked at numbers 8 and 2 respectively in 1987 and 1989, the single "Blue Bayou" was her only solo single to reach the UK Top 40. [31] Linda Ronstadt's great-grandfather, graduate engineer Friedrich August Ronstadt (who went by Federico Augusto Ronstadt) immigrated to the Southwest (then a part of Mexico) in the 1840s from Hanover, Germany, and married a Mexican citizen, eventually settling in Tucson. With the release of chart-topping albums such as Heart Like a Wheel, Simple Dreams, and Living in the USA, Ronstadt became the first female "arena class" rock star. Crazy 10. As was the case with their aborted 1978 effort, conflicting schedules and competing priorities delayed the album's release indefinitely. "[39], By the end of 1978, Ronstadt had solidified her role as one of rock and pop's most successful solo female acts, and owing to her consistent platinum album success, and her ability as the first woman to sell out concerts in arenas and stadiums hosting tens of thousands of fans,[29] Ronstadt became the "highest paid woman in rock". The duo won both the 1989 and 1990 Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal awards. Working with Ronstadt, Riddle brought his career back into focus in the last three years of his life. With the release of Don't Cry Now, Ronstadt took on her biggest gig to date as the opening act on Neil Young's Time Fades Away tour, playing for larger crowds than ever before. [148] Her RIAA certification (audits paid for by record companies or artists for promotion) tally as of 2001 totaled 19 Gold, 14 Platinum and 7 Multi-Platinum albums. [167] Ronstadt's comments, as well as the reactions of some audience members and the hotel, became a topic of discussion nationwide. [171] That same year, she drew criticism and praise[172] from Tucsonans for commenting that local city council's failings, developers' strip mall mentality, greed and growing dust problem had rendered the city unrecognizable and poorly developed. Linda Ronstadt - IT'S SO EASY 1977. Ronstadt's interpretation peaked at number 2 on the country chart. She has 15 albums on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, including four that hit number 1. At the time, she admired singers like Maria Muldaur for not sacrificing their femininity but says she felt enormous self-imposed pressure to compete with "the boys" at every level. Although "Dreams to Dream" failed to achieve the success of "Somewhere Out There", the song did give Ronstadt an Adult Contemporary hit in 1991. Mexican music also has an overlay of West African music, based on huapango drums, and it's kind of like a 6/8. Souther producing most of the album's tracks. Learning to play music together does all this and more. But it was too much fun to get scared. Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice is directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, produced by James Keach, Michele Farinola, Rob Epstein and Jefrey Friedman. In 1975, Ronstadt performed shows with Jackson Browne, the Eagles, and Toots and the Maytals. "Linda Ronstadt: Snow White in South Africa". Billboard Hot 100 Top Ten at the same time. [97], Ronstadt has remarked that she felt as though she was "artificially encouraged to kinda cop a really tough attitude (and be tough) because rock and roll is kind of tough (business)," which she felt wasn't worn quite authentically. And release yourself ... an exercise in exorcism. Are you glamorous? Faithless Love 07. Growing up, she listened to many types of music, including Mexican music, which was sung by her entire family and was a staple in her childhood. "[53] In 1997, Ronstadt sold her home in San Francisco and moved back to her hometown of Tucson, Arizona, to raise her two children. [155] In 1994, she adopted a baby boy, Carlos Ronstadt. Ronstadt herself has indicated that some of her 1970s hits were recorded under considerable pressure to create commercially successful recordings, and that she prefers many of her songs that were non-hit album tracks. [98] In 2004, she was interviewed for CBS This Morning[102] and stated that this image was not her because she did not sit like that. The album also received Grammy Award nominations. Linda Ronstadt; Informação geral Nome completo Linda Maria Ronstadt Nascimento 15 de julho de 1946 (74 anos) : Origem Tucson, Arizona: País Estados Unidos Gênero(s) Rock, música folclórica, country, country rock, ranchera, mariachi, rhythm & blues, Cajun, hard rock, art rock, rock acústico, operetta: Instrumento(s) voz, violão, percussão "My mother's side of my soul was the Nelson Riddle stuff. [125] Paul Simon was criticized for including her on his 1986 album Graceland, recorded in South Africa, but defended her: "I know that her intention was never to support the government there ... She made a mistake. According to jazz historian Peter Levinson, author of the book September in the Rain – a Biography on Nelson Riddle, Joe Smith, president of Elektra Records, was terrified that the Riddle album would turn off Ronstadt's rock audience. [75] Since her solo career had begun, Ronstadt had fought hard to be recognized as a solo female singer in the world of rock, and her portrayal on the Time cover did not appear to help the situation.[68]. She continued to tour, collaborate, and record celebrated albums, such as Winter Light and Hummin' to Myself, until her retirement in 2011. These performances were later released on DVD. In late 1977, Ronstadt became the first female recording artist to have two songs in the U.S. 1 With a Bullet", "Years after giving up singing, Linda Ronstadt is back on the charts with 'Live in Hollywood, "Pat Benatar: Rock's Reluctant Sex Symbol", "Rock Queen Conquers Broadway and Lives Happily Ever After", "Linda Ronstadt Live. She was the first female solo artist to have two Top 40 singles simultaneously on Billboard magazine's Hot 100: "Blue Bayou" and "It's So Easy" (October 1977). The world is tearing by you, real fast, and all these people are looking at you. Label: Asylum Records - K 13049 • Series: Treasured Tracks • Format: Vinyl 7 Linda Ronstadt - Desperado … As part of the album's promotion, a live concert was recorded for an HBO special in April. Ronstadt's singles have earned her a number 1 hit and three number 2 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, with 10 top-ten pop singles and 21 reaching the Top 40. Country Western Stars magazine wrote in 1970 that "Rock people thought she was too gentle, folk people thought she was too pop, and pop people didn't quite understand where she was at, but Country people really loved Linda." Posted by Simply Iowa at 5:33 PM. certified gold, platinum or multiplatinum, Linda Ronstadt, Stone Poneys and Friends, Vol. Have a look which song was played how often in 1977! The band is widely known for their hit single "Different Drum" (written by Michael Nesmith prior to his joining the Monkees), which reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart as well as number 12 in Cashbox magazine. She wanted "angels in the architecture" – a reference to a lyric in the Paul Simon song "You Can Call Me Al" from Graceland. [49], Ronstadt has remarked that everything she has recorded on her own records – rock and roll, rhythm and blues, gospel, opera, country, choral, and mariachi – is all music she heard her family sing in their living room, or heard played on the radio, by the age of 10. She has lent her voice to over 120 albums and has sold more than 100 million records, making her one of the world's best-selling artists of all time. On Radio [advertisement]", "Linda Ronstadt to Play at Fantasy Springs", "What's New with Linda Ronstadt? [38] She remained a highly successful touring artist into the 1990s, at which time she decided to scale back to smaller venues. Ronstadt has remarked that in the beginning of her career she "was so focused on folk, rock and country" that she "got a bit bored and started to branch out, and ... [has] been doing that ever since. As for the singles, Rolling Stone pointed out that a whole generation, "but for her, might never have heard the work of artists such as Buddy Holly, Elvis Costello, and Chuck Berry. As a singer-songwriter, Ronstadt has written songs covered by several artists, such as "Try Me Again", covered by Trisha Yearwood; and "Winter Light", which was co-written and composed with Zbigniew Preisner and Eric Kaz, and covered by Sarah Brightman. Other participants included Miles Davis, Lenny Kravitz, Hall & Oates, Natalie Cole, Yoko Ono, and Sean Lennon. Along with the release of her Get Closer album, Ronstadt embarked on a North American tour, remaining one of the top rock-concert draws that summer and fall. Plow" and sang a duet, "Funny How Time Slips Away," with Homer Simpson on The Yellow Album. Heart Like A Wheel 19. [62] The Silk Purse album cover showed Ronstadt in a muddy pigpen, while the back and inside cover depicted her onstage wearing bright red. The project continued her streak of Top 10 hits with "How Do I Make You", originally recorded by Billy Thermal, and "Hurt So Bad", originally a Top 10 hit for Little Anthony & the Imperials. Ronstadt's natural vocal range spans several octaves from contralto to soprano, and occasionally she will showcase this entire range within a single work. But needing someone willing to work with her as an equal, Ronstadt asked Peter Asher, who came highly recommended to her by James Taylor's sister Kate Taylor, to help produce two of them: "Sail Away" and "I Believe in You".[73]. Ronstadt has served as producer on albums from various musicians that include her cousin, David Lindley, Aaron Neville and singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb. [76], —Linda Ronstadt, on reconciling her musical instincts with rock 'n' roll. She was right. [50], At age 14, Ronstadt formed a folk trio with her brother Peter and sister Gretchen. His flexible rubber ice cube tray earned him millions of dollars in royalties.[35]. With the release of Heart Like a Wheel‍—‌named after one of the album's songs, written by Anna McGarrigle‍—‌Ronstadt reached number 1 on the Billboard 200 chart;[91] it was also the first of four number 1 Country Albums, and the disc was certified double-platinum[92] (over two million copies sold in the U.S.). "[99], Her 1977 appearance on the cover of Time magazine under the banner "Torchy Rock" was also upsetting to Ronstadt, considering what the image appeared to project about the most famous woman in rock. Ronstadt was the first female artist in popular music history to accumulate four consecutive platinum albums (fourteen certified million selling, to date). PBS's Great Performances aired the stage show during its annual fund drives and the show was a hit with audiences, earning Ronstadt a Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program. She was diagnosed eight months prior to the announcement and had initially attributed the symptoms she had been experiencing to the aftereffects of shoulder surgery and a tick bite. [86] Cashbox gave Ronstadt a Special Decade Award,[87] as the top-selling female singer of the 1970s. The film also showed Ronstadt performing the songs "Poor, Poor Pitiful Me", "Love Me Tender", and "Tumbling Dice". I grew up singing Mexican music, and that's based on indigenous Mexican rhythms. "The (Mariachi music) was my father's side of the soul," she was quoted as saying in a 1998 interview she gave at her Tucson home. A Concert: Behind Prison Walls is the fifty-fourth overall album and a live album recorded by Johnny Cash at the Tennessee State Prison in 1974.The album features a total of seven performances by Cash with his backing band the Tennessee Three.It also features a total of nine performances by Linda Ronstadt, Roy Clark and Foster Brooks.. "[81], Others have argued that Ronstadt had the same generational effect with her Great American Songbook music, exposing a whole new generation to the music of the 1920s and 1930s – music which was pushed aside because of the advent of rock 'n' roll. Toward the end of the show, as she had done across the country, Ronstadt spoke to the audience, praising Fahrenheit 9/11, Michael Moore's documentary film about the Iraq War; she dedicated the song "Desperado" to Moore. Period. Both albums were later deleted from the Elektra/Asylum catalog. Ronstadt faced considerable pressure not to record What's New or record with Riddle. This album was titled Frenesí. ", "When Will She Be Loved? Unfortunately, the attempt did not pan out. He's so silly onstage, he knocks you over. I learn more ... about singing rock n roll from listening to Maria Callas records than I ever would from listening to pop music for a month of Sundays. The Pirates of Penzance opened for a limited engagement in New York City's Central Park, eventually moving its production to Broadway, where it became a hit, running from January 8, 1981, to November 28, 1982. "I can do things with Aaron that I can't do alone. [92] It became her second in a row to go platinum, "a grand slam" in the same year (Ronstadt would eventually become the first female artist in popular music history to have three consecutive platinum albums and would ultimately go on to have eight consecutive platinum albums, and then another six between 1983 and 1990). "[104], Following the success of Living in the USA, Ronstadt conducted album promotional tours and concerts. Show some grace". She has also earned nominations for a Tony Award and a Golden Globe award. [96] Simple Dreams also made Ronstadt the most successful international female touring artist. [24][a] Since then, Ronstadt has continued to make public appearances, going on a number of public speaking tours in the 2010s. [44] In August 2013, she revealed to Alanna Nash, writing for AARP, that she has Parkinson's disease and "can no longer sing a note. [136] Her formative years were spent with her father's side of the family. Her success however did not translate across the Atlantic to the UK. 1.7 million as of 2010); and For Sentimental Reasons (1986‍—‌U.S. [98][100] At a time in the industry when men still told women what to sing and what to wear,[101] Ronstadt hated the image of her that was projected to the world on that cover,[98] and she noted recently how the photographer kept forcing her to wear a dress, which was an image she did not want to project. [55] An infrequent songwriter, Ronstadt co-composed only three songs over her long career. Asher attributed the long-term success of his working relationship with Ronstadt to the fact that he was the first person to manage and produce her with whom there was a solely professional relationship. Ronstadt has released 24 studio albums and 15 compilation or greatest hits albums. It was an album of roots music incorporating pop, Cajun, and early-20th-century music and released on the Vanguard Records label. The recording earned two Grammy Award nominations: Best Traditional Folk Album and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. [36] In 1976 and 1977, she appeared on the covers of Rolling Stone and Time, respectively. 3.7 million as of 2010); Lush Life (1984‍—‌U.S. Swampwater went on to back Ronstadt during TV appearances on The Johnny Cash Show[70] and The Mike Douglas Show, and at the Big Sur Folk Festival. in 1970s, Linda Ronstadt, Midnight Dreamer 2019/06/18 431 Views, Linda Ronstadt / Rare Live From LA 1977 / 1CDR / Midnight Dreamer, Live At Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, CA October 3rd 1977. In February 1980, Ronstadt released Mad Love, her seventh consecutive platinum-selling album. In 1979, Ronstadt went on an international tour, playing in arenas across Australia to Japan, including the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, and the Budokan in Tokyo. The album itself was nominated for the Album of the Year Grammy. It was climbing the pop and country charts but "Heat Wave", a rockified version of the 1963 hit by Martha and the Vandellas, was receiving considerable airplay. Since leaving Warner Music, Ronstadt has gone on to release one album each under Verve and Vanguard Records. [38] Her first Latin release, the all-Spanish 1987 album Canciones De Mi Padre, stands as the best-selling non-English-language album in American music history. [182] On August 17, 2008, Ronstadt received a tribute by various artists, including BeBe Winans and Wynonna Judd, when she was honored with the Trailblazer Award, presented to her by Plácido Domingo at the 2008 ALMA Awards,[183] a ceremony later televised in the U.S. on ABC. Ronstadt, who had already paid for studio time‍—‌and owed her record company a finished album‍—‌removed Parton's individual tracks at Parton's request, kept Harris's vocals, and produced a number of the recordings, which she subsequently released on her 1995 return to country rock, the album Feels Like Home. [122][123][124] At the time, she stated, "the last place for a boycott is in the arts" and "I don't like being told I can't go somewhere". As Staples Center Senior Vice President and general manager Bobby Goldwater said, "It was our goal to present a spectacular event as a sendoff to the 20th century", and "Eagles, Jackson Browne, and Linda Ronstadt are three of the most popular acts of the century. Aladdin casino president Bill Timmins and Michael Moore each made public statements about the controversy.[168]. "[174], On January 16, 2010, Ronstadt converged with thousands of other activists in a "National Day of Action". [187] Mix magazine stated that "Linda Ronstadt (has) left her mark on more than the record business; her devotion to the craft of singing influenced many audio professionals ... (and is) intensely knowledgeable about the mechanics of singing and the cultural contexts of every genre she passes". 2:34. Get the Linda Ronstadt Setlist of the concert at Tanglewood Music Center, Lenox, MA, USA on August 23, 1977 and other Linda Ronstadt Setlists for free on setlist.fm! [169] Following the incident, many friends of Ronstadt's, including the Eagles, immediately cancelled their engagements at the Aladdin. The following year, she stepped outside of the mariachi genre and decided to record well-known Afro-Cuban songs. Mine just happened to resonate over the years, in one way and another, with a significant enough number of people so that I could do it professionally. [36] In a 1977 interview, Ronstadt explained, "Annie [Leibovitz] saw that picture as an exposé of my personality. [24], On April 10, 2014, Linda Ronstadt was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It included an ethereal cover of Neil Young's "After The Gold Rush" which became a popular music video. It is a valuable excavation live sound source of the 70s popular climax period of the album ‘Only one dream-simple ・ Dreams’ announcement time. It also included an interpretation of Willie Nelson's ballad "Crazy", which became a Top 10 Country hit for Ronstadt in early 1977. This album fared slightly better than its predecessor, reaching number 75. She voiced herself in The Simpsons episode "Mr. Many of these rhythms and sounds were part of her Southwestern roots. She credits her mother for her appreciation of Gilbert and Sullivan and her father for introducing her to the traditional pop and Great American Songbook repertoire that she would, in turn, help reintroduce to an entire generation.[48][50]. III. On November 25, 1982, her "Happy Thanksgiving Day" concert was held at the Reunion Arena in Dallas and broadcast live via satellite to NBC radio stations in the United States. mimivar83. [166] Accounts say the crowd's initial reaction was mixed, with "half the crowd heartily applauding her praise for Moore, (and) the other half booing. The same year, she completed a concert tour around Europe. The duets earned several Grammy Award nominations. In the decade prior to Beatlemania, most of the great band singers and crooners of the 40s and 50s codified a half-century of American pop standards on dozens of albums ... many of them now long out-of-print. [55], Ronstadt captured the sounds of country music and the rhythms of ranchera music – which she likened in 1968 to "Mexican bluegrass" – and redirected them into her rock 'n' roll and some of her pop music. They toured with her for a short period in 1971 and played on Linda Ronstadt, her self-titled third album, from which the failed single, Ronstadt's version of Browne's "Rock Me on the Water", was drawn. Her 1976 Greatest Hits album would sell consistently for the next 25 years and in 2001 was certified by the RIAA for seven-times platinum[92] (over seven million U.S. copies sold). ... She's the greatest chick singer ever. She appeared on Paul Simon's Graceland, where she sang a duet with Simon, "Under African Skies." Oct. 3, 77 Recorded at the Los Angeles Universal Amphitheater from the high-quality audience recording master, and until now the performance on September 29 at the same venue was known, but the date is different this time It is a valuable excavation live sound source that has not been sold until now. [90] The disc's first single release was "Love Is A Rose". In 2012, the category was merged back into, Most successful female singer of the 1970s, Returning to the contemporary music scene, Arizona Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame. [29] "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" included Heart Like a Wheel (1974) at number 164 and The Very Best Of Linda Ronstadt (2002) at number 324. And I had to do them both to reestablish who I was. Meanwhile, the album became Ronstadt's most successful up to that time, selling 300,000 copies by the end of 1974. Blue Bayou 04. Three years later, she ranked number 40 in CMT's 40 Greatest Women in Country Music. Music is meant to lighten your load. .. get people to go and see them, and make a record that you think properly presents their music to the public and some of which you can get on the radio. [156] In more recent years, Ronstadt moved back to San Francisco while continuing to maintain her home in Tucson. [64] In a 1976 Rolling Stone interview with Cameron Crowe, Ronstadt said, "they haven't invented a word for that loneliness that everybody goes through on the road. ", "Faith Hill, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt Getting Stars on Hollywood Walk of Fame", "Powerful Country Women Getting Stars on Hollywood Walk of Fame", "Disc 2, October 1969: Featuring Linda Ronstadt, Joe Cocker, Billy Eckstine, Mort Sahl, and Sid Caesar, God Bless the Child Linda Ronstadt and Billy Eckstine Duet", "Linda Ronstadt Guest Appearances and Unique Recordings", http://lyricswww.ronstadt-linda.com/guestapp.doc, "Borderman: Memoirs of Federico José María Ronstadt", http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/ford_times.html, "LloydCopeman.com Prolific U.S. [27], Ronstadt was raised on the family's 10-acre (4 ha) ranch with her siblings Peter (who served as Tucson's Chief of Police for ten years, 1981–1991), Michael J., and Gretchen (Suzy). By 1983, Ronstadt had enlisted the help of 62-year-old conductor Nelson Riddle. [58] Kimmel had already begun co-writing folk-rock songs with guitarist-songwriter Kenny Edwards, and eventually the three of them were signed by Nik Venet to Capitol in the summer of 1966 as "the Stone Poneys". [45][46] Having sold in excess of 100 million records worldwide[47] and setting records as one of the top-grossing concert performers for over a decade, Ronstadt was the most successful female singer of the 1970s and stands as one of the most successful female recording artists in U.S. history. Ronstadt's album sales have not been certified since 2001. [3] On July 28, 2014, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts and Humanities. He's an idiot. She also appeared on Glass's follow-up recording 1000 Airplanes on the Roof. Ronstadt has collaborated with artists in diverse genres, including Bette Midler, Billy Eckstine,[20] Frank Zappa, Carla Bley (Escalator Over the Hill), Rosemary Clooney, Flaco Jiménez, Philip Glass, Warren Zevon, Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons, Dolly Parton, Neil Young, Paul Simon, Earl Scruggs, Johnny Cash, and Nelson Riddle. In the 1980s, Ronstadt performed on Broadway and received a Tony nomination for her performance in The Pirates of Penzance,[42] teamed with the composer Philip Glass, recorded traditional music, and collaborated with the conductor Nelson Riddle, an event at that time viewed as an original and unorthodox move for a rock-and-roll artist. In 2007, Ronstadt contributed to the compilation album We All Love Ella: Celebrating the First Lady of Song – a tribute album to jazz music's all-time most heralded artist – on the track "Miss Otis Regrets".[143]. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1977 Gatefold Vinyl release of Greatest Hits on Discogs. [55], Media related to Linda Ronstadt at Wikimedia Commons. Ronstadt appointed the Land Institute as recipient of all proceeds from her signature guitar. Still contractually obligated to Capitol Records, Ronstadt released her first solo album, Hand Sown ... Home Grown, in 1969. The album design for What's New by designer Kosh was unlike any of her previous disc covers. In 1983, Linda Ronstadt dated comedian Jim Carrey for eight months. At the end of that year, Billboard magazine crowned Ronstadt with three number-one Awards for the Year: Pop Female Singles Artist of the Year, Pop Female Album Artist of the Year, and Female Artist of the Year (overall).[103]. Simple Dreams spawned a string of hit singles on numerous charts. The song also received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Song and achieved high sales, earning a million-selling gold single in the U.S. – one of the last 45s ever to do so. Love Is A Rose 15. 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