Editing Linda Ronstadt (section)

==== ''Time'' and "rock chick" image ====
Ronstadt said she was "artificially encouraged to kinda cop a really tough attitude (and be tough) because rock and roll is kind of tough (business)".<ref name="wait wait"/> Female rock artists like her and Janis Joplin, whom she described as lovely, shy, and literate in real life and the antithesis of the "red hot mamma" she was artificially encouraged to project, went through an identity crisis.<ref name="wait wait" />

[[File:RonstadtTime.jpg|thumb|right|Ronstadt on the cover of the February 28, 1977, issue of ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'']]

By the mid-1970s, Ronstadt's image became just as famous as her music.<ref name="Goldmine589" /> In 1976 and 1977, she appeared on the covers of ''Rolling Stone'' and ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]].'' The ''Rolling Stone'' cover story was accompanied by a series of photographs of Ronstadt in a skimpy red slip, taken by [[Annie Leibovitz]]. Ronstadt felt deceived, not realizing that the photos would be so revealing. She says her manager Peter Asher kicked Leibovitz out of the house when she visited to show them the photographs prior to publication. Leibovitz had refused to let them veto any of the photos, which included one of Ronstadt sprawled across a bed in her underpants.<ref name="Goldmine589" /> In a 1977 interview, Ronstadt explained, "Annie [Leibovitz] saw that picture as an exposé of my personality. She was right. But I wouldn't choose to show a picture like that to anybody who didn't know me personally, because only friends could get the other sides of me in balance."<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Rockwell |first=John |date=October 14, 1977 |title=Linda Ronstadt: Her Soft-Core Charms |url=http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/artnt77.htm |url-status=live |magazine=New Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141013002554/http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/artnt77.htm |archive-date=October 13, 2014 |access-date=April 26, 2014}}</ref>

Her 1977 appearance on the cover ''Time'' under the banner "Torchy Rock" was also upsetting to Ronstadt, considering what the image appeared to project about the most famous woman in rock.<ref name="wait wait" /><ref name="rockwell">{{Cite book |last=Rockwell |first=John |url=http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/desertisle.htm |title=Stranded – Rock and Roll for a Desert Island |editor-last=Greil Marcus |chapter=Living in the USA |access-date=May 7, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071205083733/http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/desertisle.htm |archive-date=December 5, 2007 |url-status=live}}</ref> At a time in the industry when men still told women what to sing and what to wear,<ref name="Asherscomment">{{Cite web |title=Homecoming Queen, April 1995 |url=http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/artmojo.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927184728/http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/artmojo.htm |archive-date=September 27, 2007 |access-date=May 11, 2007 |website=Mojo}}</ref> Ronstadt hated the image of her that was projected to the world on that cover,<ref name="wait wait" /> and she noted how the photographer kept forcing her to wear a dress, which was an image she did not want to project.<ref name="wait wait" /> In 2004, she was interviewed for ''[[CBS This Morning]]''<ref name="cbs">{{Cite web |date=December 5, 2004 |title=Linda Ronstadt |url=http://www.lindaronstadt.com/files/CBSNSM/CBS_SundayAM.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070809005121/http://www.lindaronstadt.com/files/CBSNSM/CBS_SundayAM.html |archive-date=August 9, 2007 |access-date=July 12, 2007 |publisher=[[CBS News]]}}</ref> and stated that this image was not her because she did not sit like that. Asher noted, "Anyone who's met Linda for 10 seconds will know that I couldn't possibly have been her [[Svengali]]. She's an extremely determined woman, in every area. To me, she was everything that feminism's about."<ref name=Asherscomment /> Qualities which, Asher has stated, were considered a "negative (in a woman at that time), whereas in a man they were perceived as being masterful and bold".<ref name="negativequalities" /> 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.<ref name=backupband2 />

In 1978, ''Rolling Stone'' declared Ronstadt "by far America's best-known female rock singer."<ref name=RocksVenusSuccess /> She scored a third number 1 album on the Billboard Album Chart – at this point equaling the record set by Carole King in 1974 – with ''Living in the USA''. She achieved a major hit single with "[[Ooo Baby Baby]]", with her rendition hitting all four major singles charts (Pop, AC, Country, R&B). ''Living in the USA'' was the first album by any recording act in music history to ship double-platinum (over 2&nbsp;million advance copies).<ref name="doubleplatinum" /> The album eventually sold 3&nbsp;million U.S. copies.

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).<ref name="TopFemale">{{Cite magazine |date=December 23, 1978 |title=Congratulations |url=http://www.lindaronstadt.com/files/pwoi/BB_23Dec1978_Congrats.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070808224414/http://www.lindaronstadt.com/files/pwoi/BB_23Dec1978_Congrats.html |archive-date=August 8, 2007 |access-date=June 24, 2007 |magazine=Billboard}}</ref>

''Living in the USA'' showed the singer on roller skates with a newly short, permed hairdo on the album cover. Ronstadt continued this theme on concert tour promotional posters with photos of her on roller skates in a dramatic pose with a large American flag in the background. By this stage of her career, she was using posters to promote every album<ref name="Goldmine589" /> and concert – which at the time were recorded live on radio or television.

Ronstadt was also featured in the 1978 film ''[[FM (film)|FM]]'', where the plot involved disc jockeys attempting to broadcast a Ronstadt concert live, without a competing station's knowledge. The film also showed Ronstadt performing the songs "Poor, Poor Pitiful Me", "[[Love Me Tender (song)|Love Me Tender]]", and "[[Tumbling Dice]]". Ronstadt was persuaded to record "Tumbling Dice" after [[Mick Jagger]] came backstage when she was at a concert and said, "You do too many ballads, you should do more rock and roll songs."<ref name="MickJagger">{{Cite web |date=March 1978 |title=Tour Reflections and Simple Dreams |url=http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/arthp78.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151003011350/http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/arthp78.htm |archive-date=October 3, 2015 |access-date=December 29, 2010 |website=The Hit Parader Interview}}</ref>

Following the success of ''Living in the USA'', Ronstadt conducted album promotional tours and concerts. She made a guest appearance onstage with [[the Rolling Stones]] at the Tucson Community Center on July 21, 1978, in her hometown of Tucson, where she and Jagger sang "Tumbling Dice".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ronstadt and Rolling Stones, July 21, 1978 |url=http://www.iorr.org/talk/read.php?1,1222215,1222980 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613231122/http://www.iorr.org/talk/read.php?1,1222215,1222980 |archive-date=June 13, 2011 |access-date=December 9, 2010 |website=Photos |publisher=iorr.org forum}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=September 12, 2013 |title=Why Linda Ronstadt Still Matters to Tucson |url=http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/why-linda-ronstadt-still-matters-to-tucson/Content?oid=3872523 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150529030503/http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/why-linda-ronstadt-still-matters-to-tucson/Content?oid=3872523 |archive-date=May 29, 2015 |access-date=May 28, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=July 21, 1978 |title=Rolling Stones U.S. Tour 1978 |url=http://www.myetymology.com/encyclopedia/Rolling_Stones_U.S._Tour_1978.html0 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714143020/http://www.myetymology.com/encyclopedia/Rolling_Stones_U.S._Tour_1978.html0 |archive-date=July 14, 2011 |access-date=December 9, 2010 |publisher=MyEtymology.com/SpeedyLook}}</ref> On singing with Jagger, Ronstadt later said, "I loved it. I didn't have a trace of stage fright. I'm scared to death all the way through my own shows. But it was too much fun to get scared. He's so silly onstage, he knocks you over. I mean you have to be on your toes or you wind up falling on your face."<ref name=RocksVenusSuccess />