Linda Ronstadt had her second hit in 1975 with an old song, “When Will I Be Loved.” The song was written by Phil Everly. The Everly Brothers had a Top 10 hit with the song in 1960. Linda would make the song her own with her great delivery.

“When Will I Be Loved” got up to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for two weeks (June 15 -28). It got up to the top spot on the Cash Box Top 100 chart for the week of June 15 – 21.

Linda would release her version of “Heat Wave ” later in 1975. It managed to get up to #5 on the Billboard chart.

Linda’s rock-and-roll image was as famous as her music as she appeared six times on the cover of Rolling Stone and on the covers of Newsweek and Time. Linda was said to be the “highest-paid woman in rock” in the late 1970s. In the early 1980s she did a stint as the lead of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance plus release more successful albums.

Linda retired in 2011 and in 2013 she revealed she had Parkinson’s disease and could “no longer sing a note.”