WE WILL ROCK YOU (Linda Ronstadt)
"We Will Rock You" is a song written by Brian May and recorded and performed by Queen for their 1977 album News of the World. Rolling Stone ranked it number 330 of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" in 2004, and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) placed it at number 146 on its list of Songs of the Century. In 2009, "We Will Rock You" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 1996, American recording artist Linda Ronstadt performed a soft lullaby version for her album Dedicated to the One I Love. (More from Wikipedia)
In 2004, Linda Ronstadt quietly released Hummin' to Myself that was recorded with a jazz combo; it made #2 on the Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart. Linda Ronstadt created an album of lullabies crafted from rock standards in 1996 called Dedicated to the One I Love; remarkably, one of these was the Queen arena classic "We Will Rock You". Her holiday album, A Merry Little Christmas came out in 2000.
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