{"id":172984,"date":"2022-01-13T08:09:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T13:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=172984"},"modified":"2022-01-13T08:17:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T13:17:25","slug":"r-i-p-ronnie-spector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=172984","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Ronnie Spector"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI can’t keep up. Just one month has brought so many losses, so many people who shaped our culture and our world in indelible ink. From Sondheim to Bogdanovich. And now Ronnie Spector, inspiration to three generations, from the Stones to Amy Winehouse. Joey Ramone revered her above all others. <\/p>\n

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\nWhile it’s difficult to measure the impact of someone like Ronnie Spector – and the Ronettes – at least in a specific way, all you can really say is: before the Ronettes the world was one way. After, the world was another. <\/p>\n

One of the best things ever written about Ronnie Spector is in the book Here She Comes Now: Women in Music Who Have Changed Our Lives <\/a><\/i>, made up of different writers writing essays on different musicians, as varied as Aretha, Liz Phair, Dolly. and Mary J. Blige. Kim Morgan (a friend of mine, and co-screenwriter of Nightmare Alley<\/i>) writes about Ronnie Spector. I highly encourage everyone to buy the book (part of the Mixtape Series), Kim’s essay is a standout, and crucial to expressing the thesis of the book, its central concern, to pay tribute, to contextualize the artist, in terms of what they did, what they brought, and how they “changed our lives”. Kim Morgan does that, in her specific-as-a-fingerprint unforgettable writing.<\/p>\n

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