Introducing Darlene Love

Personnel: Darlene Love (vocals).Audio Mixer: Bob Clearmountain.Recording information: Renegade Studios, NYC; Star Trax Studio.Photographers: Scott Hueston; Paul Osmolskis.Arrangers: Chris Jahnke; Stan Harrison.Darlene Love has one of the strongest and most immediately recognizable voices in the history of pop and rock music, but she's never been much of a star on her own; Love's most memorable moments were as part of Phil Spector's Wall of Sound crew, where she sang as part of the Crystals and Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans, as well as cutting a few tracks under her own name and delivering the epochal version of "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" on Spector's legendary Christmas album. Love has always had the talent to be a frontwoman, but fate seemed to have other ideas, and none of Love's solo albums caught the ear of the larger public, despite her enduring talent. Superfan Steven Van Zandt, longtime member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, decided it was high time someone di