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    Years after giving up singing, Linda Ronstadt is back on the charts with 'Live in Hollywood'

    by Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times Feb 13, 2019 5 minutes

    The recent release of the first official live recording of Linda Ronstadt's career, coming more than a decade after Parkinson's disease forced her to abandon singing, is surprising on at least two fronts.

    For starters, this celebrated perfectionist is not a fan of live albums in general, much less any with her voice front and center.

    "In the studio, you can do it right," Ronstadt, 72, said in a rare interview from her Bay Area home shortly before last week's release of "Live in Hollywood," a session that was captured in 1980 at Television Center Studios for an HBO special that aired the same year.

    "I also start to sing better after I've been on stage for a while."

    Whatever qualifiers Ronstadt feels compelled to's CD sales ranking and on Monday, it entered Billboard's 200 Albums national sales chart at No. 7.

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