2026-08-27
14 分钟This is The Guardian.
Meeting Dolly Parton, it's like, the only way I could describe it, it must be like meeting the Pope if you're Catholic.
She recorded over 3,000 songs.
Whoa, really?
And I've been writing songs all of my life and this beats the heck out of standing
up on a hill above the barn singing to the cows and the chickens and the pigs.
49 albums.
I mean, the body of work.
I think it's important to say that the fashion was very much an armour, essentially performed in drag.
I think her songs from the very beginning were just...
Deeply political and I think most of her kind of rawness and honesty came through in her songwriting.
From the Guardians today on Focus, this is The Latest with me, Lucy Hart.
Dolly Parton, an icon and one of our greatest ever singer-songwriters,
has died very suddenly at the age of 80 after what we're told was a short battle with cancer.
Jenny Stephens, you're our deputy features editor.
You are known in Guardian Towers as possibly the biggest Dolly Parton superfan.
Is that fair to say?
I mean, there are bigger Dolly superfans.
For what it's worth.
But yes, I am an enormous fan of her.