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Happy 70th birthday to Darlene Love!

Darlene Love is one of the real showbiz survivors and if you only know her from playing Danny Glover’s wife in all the Lethal Weapon movies, then you really don’t know the half of it.

This great star, who is 70 years young today,  was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year and it was a well-deserved honor!

Darlene joined the singing group The Blossoms while still in high school and began working with producer Phil Spector in the early 60s singing back-up on such songs as Johnny Angel.

She sang lead on a string of hit singles includes He’s a Rebel, Today I Met the Boy I love, Da Doo Ron Ron, and He’s Sure the Boy I’m Going to Marry.

But the records were released under the name of The Crystals and Darlene was never given the proper credit for her work or the proper royalties. This led to hard times but she never game up on herself or her talent and by the 80s, she returned to the music scene and found that the audience had not forgotten her.


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