Carl Q On The Eagles And Don Henley -- 1969 -- 1970 -- June 1, 2024

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As long-term readers know: the best year for music was the 18-month period around 1969. 

I can tell it is going to be another one of those nights. Sometimes I wonder: what would it have been for music had the Beatles been the back-up band for Linda Ronstadt? Not just for one tour, but from the beginning to the end. Just one look, Billy Payne on keyboard:

Carl Q on the Eagles and Don Henley -- link here.

One can't discuss the Eagles / Don Henley without talking about Linda Ronstadt. Period. Dot.

Wow, I miss those days.

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Taylor Swift

For those of us who don't "know" Taylor Swift, it's time to read her bio over at wiki.

Yeah, it's going to be one of those nights.

The Taylor Swift generation begin in 2006. 

At an industry showcase at Nashville's Bluebird Cafe in 2005, Swift caught the attention of Scott Borchetta, a DreamWorks Records executive who was preparing to form an independent record label, Big Machine Records.

She had first met Borchetta in 2004. She was one of Big Machine's first signings, and her father purchased a three-percent stake in the company for an estimated $120,000. [Sounds like "Shark Tank."]

She began working on her eponymous debut album with Nathan Chapman. Swift wrote or co-wrote all album tracks, and co-writers included Rose, Robert Ellis Orrall, Brian Maher, and Angelo Petraglia.[

Released in October 2006, Taylor Swift peaked at number five on the US Billboard 200, on which it spent 157 weeks—the longest stay on the chart by any release in the US in the 2000s decade.

Swift became the first female country music artist to write or co-write every track on a US platinum-certified debut album.

Gen Z: the mid-to-late 1990s as starting birth years and the early 2010s as ending birth years. Most members of Generation Z are the children of Generation X or older Millennials.

Folks born in 1996 are now 28 years old; those born in 2014 are ten years old. Coming-of-age years, ten years to 28 years of age. The Gen Z generation is the Taylor Swift generation. 

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Divas

Blondie -- a "10" on my list.

But not a diva.

Divas? Cher was a diva.

I have to check again, but I believe Debbie Harry was born in 1945, Cher, 1946. And in 2002, Cher, was as good as she ever was. Debbie Harry not so much. Link here. On her "Believe" album. Wow, she knew her audience.

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Divas

Linda Ronstadt is not on the list.

I agree. 

Linda Ronstadt is on a list of her own -- a list with one name. Hers. In a  class of her own.