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The Linda Ronstadt Coverup!

Tom Nolan, Phonograph Record, November 1974

IN 1970 DAN Wakefield, who had just published his first novel, Going All the Way (a heartbreakingly hilarious chronicle of America's dismal sex life in the '50s), was persuaded by a music-youth-and-ecology magazine to write an article about a young female singer whose voice and visage happened to be particular preoccupations of his that summer.

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