Hey I'm Brian Hyatt. This is Rolling Stone Music Now. I'm in the studio with David Brown and Angie Martosio and we were going to talk about Linda Romstadt, the subject of a new documentary, which is understandably causing people to reassess her legacy and take a new look at the career of really one of the biggest stars of the 70s who kept making music beyond and is still around and is still talking for the documentary

Talk to Angie recently and we have on the phone someone very important to her

producer and manager,

producer and manager, some of the biggest periods of her career.

Peter, are you there? Yes, I am.

Hi.

Welcome, thanks for being here. Oh, my pleasure. Thank you. So the documentary leaves a lot more to talk about and I just wanted to go back to the beginning. I was reading all the old Rolling Stone coverage of you and your work with Linda, you know, you can go back and read the Ben

Fong Torres cover story, which I think was their first one. I'd recommend everyone do that.

It's as usual for Ben F Tor is incredibly in depth it seems like

about half a book. Ben's really good at that stuff. Oh amazing so Peter

share if you will just how you first got involved with Linda what your first

impressions were all of that. Oh sure I was in New York and somebody and amazing. They said she's got this extraordinary voice, you know, she's a great

performance and they said, you know, she sings barefoot, she wears these really

short shorts and she's incredibly hot and it was all true, you know. And then when I

met Linda and discovered she's also one of the smartest, most brilliant, most thoughtful women I've ever met in my life, I was totally hooked.

And it so happened that we talked to some length and she first asked me if I would help finish

the album she was in the middle of which was that don't cry now because it had got a

little bit bogged down she'd worked with various different producers and various boyfriends had been involved in you know various people various She was terrific and I would love to help in any way I could.

So I did that first and then in the course of that she was also in the process of separating

herself from her manager at the time, Herbie Cohen.

And so she then asked me because she knew I was a manager obviously

I was managing James Taylor at the time she asked me if I would be a manager and I

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