Get Closer (1982) is an album by singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt. It arrived two and a half years after the controversial Punk Rock Mad Love, in which Ronstadt departed from what had become her traditional blend of rock, country and pop music and sang straightforward rock 'n' roll, and a little over a year after her Tony Award-nominated turn on Broadway playing Mabel in the Joseph Papp production of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates Of...
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Get Closer (1982) is an album by singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt. It arrived two and a half years after the controversial Punk Rock Mad Love, in which Ronstadt departed from what had become her traditional blend of rock, country and pop music and sang straightforward rock 'n' roll, and a little over a year after her Tony Award-nominated turn on Broadway playing Mabel in the Joseph Papp production of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates Of Penzance.
Get Closer found Ronstadt returning to the genres that had resulted in her commercial and critical success throughout the 1970s, and working again with British musician and producer Peter Asher. It was noted by critics that, whereas she had spent the '70s channeling the music of then-upcoming songwriters such as Warren Zevon, Elvis Costello, Karla Bonoff and J. D. Souther, on Get Closer Ronstadt sang older songs, some originated by established artists such as Billy Joe Royal, George Jones and Ike and Tina Turner, and others...
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