Female Artists I Wish Would Have Had Longer Careers

What happened?

Linda Ronstadt performing in 1981. She was probably singing a track from “Mad Love,” an album largely composed of Elvis Costello songs. Ronstadt is NOT on this list! She gave and gave until she could give no more. Photo by Circacies on Wikimedia Commons.

I’m not sure what it is about the ladies of pop and rock, but females have always appealed to me more than male artists or male-oriented bands. I bet 75% of my catalog is comprised of female artists.

That’s not to say that I didn’t like, for instance, Led Zeppelin, my favorite rockers of all time. (It could have had something…