Helen Reddy, the Australian-born singer who scored an enduring hit with her feminist anthem “I Am Woman,” has died at 78 in Los Angeles. ‘I Am Woman’ singer Helen Reddy, ’70s hitmaker, dies at 78 She’s cripplingly afraid of catching the coronavirus, fearing that going on a ventilator would leave her hoarse and ruin her voice. She’s also decided that she wants to make another solo album and plans to spend the rest of quarantine turning the poetry from her journals into lyrics.īut with touring on hold, she’s bored and depressed, conditions she’s claimed to never before suffer from. Two projects due out this month have, she says, offered a vestige of normalcy: “24 Karat Gold: The Concert,” a cinematic version of her 2017 solo show, and a politically minded new single, “Show Them the Way,” which will be accompanied by a Cameron Crowe-directed music video. Which is why, in part, this pandemic has hit her so hard. But ultimately, her father pretty much got it right: She has yet to feel more devoted toward a man than her muse. She would have considered taking another spouse, had she met the right person - someone who wasn’t jealous of her, who got a kick out of her crazy girlfriends. She did get married once, back in 1983, an ill-fated three-month relationship with the husband of her best friend, who had just died of leukemia. Some we know about - Lindsey Buckingham, Don Henley, JD Souther - and many we don’t.
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