# Hottest 70's era rocker chick? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 15, 2008, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-70s-era-rocker-chick/445441 "2008-04-15T14:21:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-70s-era-rocker-chick/445441/41 "2008-04-16T02:00:31Z")
Grace Slick ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-70s-era-rocker-chick/445441/42 "2008-04-16T02:13:02Z")
Just in case anyone’s wondering where us Linda Ronstadt people get our notions: [Still one of the most beautiful faces I’ve ever seen](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6d/LindaRonstadt.jpg) [Legs](http://www.vinylrecords.ch/L/LI/Linda_Ronstadt/Lving_USA/linda_ronstadt_usa_11.jpg) (I tend to think of this as Linda’s “Desiree Cousteau” period) Nipples \<– crap, the link broke … Google the “Hasten Down the Wind” album cover art [General come-hither-ness](http://www.audiography.com.au/images/Albums/S_A070417-03_Linda%20Ronstadt_What's%20New.jpg) (yes, I know that’s from the 80s, bite me) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-70s-era-rocker-chick/445441/43 "2008-04-16T02:26:50Z")
Your missing [link](http://cdcovers.iespana.es/cdcovers/coversl/linda_ronstadt-hasten_down_the_wind-front.jpg), sir. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-70s-era-rocker-chick/445441/44 "2008-04-16T03:00:50Z")
I don’t think it’s really fair I do this since there are people on this board who are much bigger fans of this woman’s music while my interest in her is mostly for … ahem … physical reasons but they haven’t shown up in this thread yet so I’ll take it on myself to name [Kate Bush.](http://fourfour.typepad.com/fourfour/images/kate.jpg) Also, if we broaden the definition of “rocker chick” a bit, [Carly Simon.](http://www.followthemusic.com/album%20covers/antic.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-70s-era-rocker-chick/445441/45 "2008-04-16T03:20:47Z")
[QUOTE=Christopher] Mariah Carey was totally hot in the 70’s. Why has that police car been parked outside my house for so long? [/QUOTE] What about Janet Jackson? ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-70s-era-rocker-chick/445441/46 "2008-04-16T03:46:31Z")
[QUOTE=NDP] Also, if we broaden the definition of “rocker chick” a bit, [Carly Simon.](http://www.followthemusic.com/album%20covers/antic.jpg) [/QUOTE] Beaten. Another not-so-hard-rocking babe more commonly associated with the 1980s, but who started releasing albums in the 1970s: Kim Carnes. ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/zyjGfU7Zgao/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/zyjGfU7Zgao?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque Video from 1980, pre-MTV Laurie Anderson looked kinda’ cute on the [album cover of “United States”](http://www.payer.de/neobuddhismus/neobuddh1715.gif), but it would be a stretch to consider her “hot”. Patti Smith – well, it depends on what angle you look at her. [She tried](http://blogs.caller.com/amped_up/archives/Images/Patti_Smith_Easter.jpg). Still, I love [her music](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz6YExufb1k), and it would be a sin to leave her off of any list of “1970s rocker chicks.” ---
**Author:** ![pprgrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f6c823/32.png) [@pprgrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pprgrl)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-70s-era-rocker-chick/445441/47 "2008-04-16T04:03:46Z")
Ann and Nancy Wilson are still pretty [hot](http://www.hopeheart.org/events/images/wilsons.jpg). I’ve seen them play a couple of times in the last few years and lemme tell you, those chicks can smex up the stage big time. I so want to be the creamy center in a Wilson sister sandwich. What? ---
**Author:** ![IdFindAnAAnswerForThat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3d9bf3/32.png) [@IdFindAnAAnswerForThat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IdFindAnAAnswerForThat)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-70s-era-rocker-chick/445441/48 "2008-04-16T05:10:58Z")
I agree with NPD there was no rocker chick hotter than Carly. It depends on how you define rocker. Clearly Olivia Newton-John was among the prettiest singers in the 70s, probably ever, but she was very soft pop and country oriented. Linda Rondstat too was very country at first, even edging closer to disco with “How Do I Make You,” (one of her few top ten songs that wasn’t a remake) Once Blondie broke with Heart of Glass Harry was totally identified with Disco. Real rocker chicks were along the lines of Patti Smith, even Fleetwood Mac was a bit too 70s soft sound to be a real “rocker chick” So I guess it’s how you define it. Interestingly no African American chicks really as they were all disco or R&B or though Ammi Stewart and Anita Ward were very hot. (and very disco) ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-70s-era-rocker-chick/445441/49 "2008-04-16T05:23:49Z")
[QUOTE=pprgrl] Ann and Nancy Wilson are still pretty [hot](http://www.hopeheart.org/events/images/wilsons.jpg). I’ve seen them play a couple of times in the last few years and lemme tell you, those chicks can smex up the stage big time. I so want to be the creamy center in a Wilson sister sandwich. What? [/QUOTE] Looks like Ann’s had more than her share of sandwiches. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-70s-era-rocker-chick/445441/50 "2008-04-16T11:07:00Z")
[QUOTE=Koxinga] Looks like Ann’s had more than her share of sandwiches. [/QUOTE] [Eaten … uhhh I mean beaten](http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/08KC6eW41ycPH/610x.jpg). [QUOTE=IdFindAnAAnswerForThat] I agree with NPD there was no rocker chick hotter than Carly. It depends on how you define rocker. [/quote] Carly was pretty attractive, but if you define her as a “rocker”, you might as well throw Maria Muldaur, Karen Carpenter and Helen Reddy in there too. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-70s-era-rocker-chick/445441/51 "2008-04-16T11:15:36Z")
[QUOTE=elmwood] No love for little [Suzi Quatro](http://youtube.com/watch?v=lk6kvVGPURA)? [/QUOTE] Yeah. Am I going to be in trouble for suggesting Toyah Wilcox? She was a bit mentally manic, but she had that oddly nice speech impediment. ---
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-70s-era-rocker-chick/445441/52 "2008-04-16T11:28:25Z")
What about Tina Turner? I saw Chrissie Hynde at a Neil Young concert about 6 years ago, and she was _still_ hot. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-70s-era-rocker-chick/445441/53 "2008-04-16T13:45:03Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] Yeah. Am I going to be in trouble for suggesting Toyah Wilcox? She was a bit mentally manic, but she had that oddly nice speech impediment. [/QUOTE] At age 10 I thought she was scary, but hot- what type speech impediment did/does she have, I don’t recall? And I didn’t know she’s married to Robert Fripp. Rachel Sweet was also a looker, even at age 14. 😉 and apparently still is. ---
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-70s-era-rocker-chick/445441/54 "2008-04-16T14:21:33Z")
I had a thing for Stevie Nicks back when, it was a thrill to see Fleetwood Mac live and sit close enough to almost touch the stage. She was a little strange, but… My crush on her from afar lasted until the early 80’s and I saw The Bangles. ---
**Author:** ![flickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@flickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flickster)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-70s-era-rocker-chick/445441/55 "2008-04-17T00:31:30Z")
Another vote for Ronstadt Along the same genre - The Delta Lady, [Rita Coolidge](http://www.geocities.jp/hideki_wtnb/rita3rd.jpg) Something a little harder (and crustier) - [Ruby Starr](http://www.geocities.com/themods1966/ruby_starr.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Prize](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Sir\_Prize](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Prize)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-70s-era-rocker-chick/445441/56 "2008-04-17T00:54:49Z")
Lot’s of good one’s already mentioned. Let me add Wendy O. Williams. [QUOTE=IdFindAnAAnswerForThat] Interestingly no African American chicks really as they were all disco or R&B or though Ammi Stewart and Anita Ward were very hot. (and very disco) [/QUOTE] They had A Taste of Honey on one of those PBS specials not long ago. Even though their hit was disco, those woman rock and looked great. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-70s-era-rocker-chick/445441/57 "2008-04-17T02:11:48Z")
[QUOTE=Koxinga] What about Janet Jackson? [/QUOTE] Oh yeah, back in the day 😃 (It’s cool - Janet is one day _older_ than me) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-70s-era-rocker-chick/445441/58 "2008-04-17T03:16:18Z")
I’ve got a certain hardne… errr, fondness for Pat Benetar, 1978. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-70s-era-rocker-chick/445441/59 "2008-04-17T03:45:59Z")
[QUOTE=An Arky] OK, this one is like one year outside the 70s, but [Kim Wilde](http://www.wilde-life.com/gallery/00002/04850/) was pretty cute. But I noticed that she has a website currently, and I have to say that [oh, yeah](http://www.wilde-life.com/gallery/00017/00247/), I’d [definitely](http://www.wilde-life.com/gallery/00017/00248/) hit [that](http://www.wilde-life.com/gallery/00017/00249) . [/QUOTE] :eek: I think she looks better now than she did in 1981! How is that even possible? ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-70s-era-rocker-chick/445441/60 "2008-04-17T04:02:21Z")
[QUOTE=NDP] I don’t think it’s really fair I do this since there are people on this board who are much bigger fans of this woman’s music while my interest in her is mostly for … ahem … physical reasons but they haven’t shown up in this thread yet so I’ll take it on myself to name [Kate Bush.](http://fourfour.typepad.com/fourfour/images/kate.jpg) [/QUOTE] [Oh](http://gaffa.org/wow/k229.jpg) [yes](http://gaffa.org/wow/k242.jpg), [my](http://gaffa.org/wow/k91.jpg) [God](http://gaffa.org/wow/k41.jpg) [Yes!](http://gaffa.org/wow/k255.jpg) [Yes](http://gaffa.org/wow/k227.jpg) [Yes](http://gaffa.org/wow/k231.jpg) [Yes](http://gaffa.org/wow/k64.jpg) [Yes](http://gaffa.org/wow/k70.jpg) [Yes](http://gaffa.org/wow/k_c.jpg) [Yes](http://gaffa.org/wow/k45.jpg) [Yes](http://gaffa.org/wow/k28.jpg) [Yes](http://gaffa.org/wow/k169.jpg) [Yes](http://gaffa.org/wow/k181.jpg) [Yes](http://gaffa.org/wow/k160.jpg) [Yes](http://gaffa.org/wow/k170.jpg) [Yes](http://gaffa.org/wow/k199.jpg) [Yes](http://gaffa.org/wow/k173.jpg) [Yes](http://gaffa.org/wow/k234.jpg) Those are just a few of the reasons why, before Princess Diana came along, Kate was the most photographed woman in the world (the world not including the United States). I’m pure het and I think she’s besottedly beautiful. And the thing is, she was even more beautiful in the 80’s and 90’s. What’s endearing is that even with those glamor shots, she could also often look dorky and geeky. Of course, it’s the music that matters most of all, and I was in love with her music long before I ever saw a photo of her. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-70s-era-rocker-chick/445441.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-70s-era-rocker-chick/445441.md?page=4)