tonight, the first of two conversations with singer linda ronstadt. she has 11 grammys, and any, and a tony to her credit. her crystal invoice is permanently silenced due to parkinson's. she has explored a myriad of musical styles from her early folk rock days to heard rediscovery of the ranchero sound of her mexican-american roots and has written a memoir that chronicles her musical journey titled "simple dreams p -- "simple dreams." we are glad you have joined us. a conversation with linda ronstadt coming up right now. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: before she retired from performing in 2009, her impressive career founder collaborating with many outstanding artists including dolly parton, randy newman, aaron neville, and so forth. newhas written a wonderful memoir about her artistic journey called "simple dreams." here is a simple reminder of her beautiful voice. ♪ ♪ tavis: still sound good to you? >> i wonder where that came from. i think i got that blouse and downtown l.a.. tavis: i asked about

we have been told that linda ronstadt will not sing again. i knew for years i did not feel well. i knew i was really struggling with singing and apparently, it i didn your voice first. not know what was wrong. my back hurt and i thought it was because i fell off the horse so many times. if you go to the doctor and say you are tired, they look at you like you're an idiot. i'm tired, too. it occurred to me to go to a neurologist. finally, i was just completely shocked and i remember that my grandmother had it. luck of the draw. i am curious as to what you will call upon to help you in this fight. >> i have my own good sense and i believe in the empirical wisdom of science. i hope that there might be some treatment out there that might be helpful. the best promise is with stem cells and again, the religious right is not allowing such research and it shows promise for helping people not just with parkinson's, but diabetes and different kinds of cancers. that research will loosen up and i don't know if it will ever happen in our lifetime, but i wi

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they can see that there are certainly people with the right back ronstadt support was we do we have an announcement coming up next week with a look at martin a major u.s. aerospace company that has been involved in all the marsh missions did not and that's all mar so far so i think that the journalists from wired's might have to do is homework again well i guess only time will tell but from their home out of it thank you very much for your thoughts and if you like the show please join us again same. place same time here on a. gentleman i guess you all know ladies. good to see you even got in a few hundred a day come across it honestly i'm going to miss the faces i'm going to soak it all for the purpose of this if we've got people coming in with criminals we got people from it who knows where in the world this is the united states i'm very tough by the way you know the sure but i was worried that they may not know why they live on mars you know mars. so we pick up things like rand ob turbans prayer rugs so when we know they do they're coming from the middle east say concentration camp.

influenced the biggest names in rock music including the beatles, bob dylan, the beach boys and linda ronstadt >> they have had hit after hit after hit. >> here are the everly brothers. ♪ i've been made blue ♪ i've been lied to ♪ when will i be loved? >>reporter: the brothers went through difficult times and didn't speak for many years. that is until one famous duo brought the brothers back together as the opening act for their world tour. >> the everly's were our heroes and our models it's with enormous pleasure that i introduce you to don and phil the everly brothers. >>reporter: the everly brothers left an indelible mark on the music industry. it's no surprise they were among the first ten performers to be inducted to the rock and roll hall of fame. ♪ dream dream dream >>reporter: phil everly was seventy four. >> axelrod: barbara bush is now out of the hospital in houston. the 88-year-old former first lady had pneumonia. but will now be able to celebrate her 69th wedding anniversary at home with her husband on monday. >>> later, the long suffering spiderman musical. ending one life on broad

linda ronstadt writes about the passing of one of the everly brothers. >> and growing up and listeningof 11 and changing her life. a great little piece. >> it is great. passing of phil, of course. talk about janet yellen. why do we care so much about the 16 th 16 trillion dollar woman? >> the size of the economy. having met her husband at the fed cafeteria 36 years ago, kitchen table realism about her that comes from growing newspaper bay ridge and watching unemployed folks and they come to her father's clinic and sometimes not able to pay the bills and that is a somewhat different background than your average monetary policies are and she talks about in a series of interviews. >> what was the most impressive thing janet yellen told "time"? >> she was quite frank how optimistic she was for the u.s. economy and looking for perhaps 3% this year and quite focused on main street and talking in ways that central bankers don't normally about the importance of regulation going forward. >> you've got a big piece in the magazine about spike jones, maker of the movie "her" which is a masterpiece