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went as far as the album’s title. Introducing Darlene Love is a Claudia Lennear, and Judith Hill. The title is a both an introduc- rather ironic title for an artist that tion to Darlene Love as a lead was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011 and singer and an ode to the famous album titles of the sixties like whose voice has been on the air- Meet The Beatles. It’s the perfect waves since the sixties, but it’s a name for a record that evokes first heard of her from the Oscar one in which Love was so in- From Stardom, which turned the just how much those songs reso- very apt title. Millions of people the spirit of that time period, winning documentary 20 Feet spotlight on backup singers like grained. It surprised her to learn nated with guys like Van Zandt Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, and Springsteen. Watch Darlene Love perform “A Fine Fine Boy” With E Street Band NewJerseyStage.com 2016 - ISSUE 2 Table of Contents 16