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My Rock 'n' Roll Friend

By: Tracey Thorn
Narrated by: Gina Murray, Taryn Ryan
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Publisher's Summary

In 1983, backstage at the Lyceum in London, Tracey Thorn and Lindy Morrison first met. Tracey's music career with the Marine Girls had just begun, while Lindy, drummer for The Go-Betweens, was 10 years her senior. They became confidantes, comrades and best friends, a relationship cemented by activism and agitprop theatre, lesbian punk bands and rock 'n' roll love affairs.

Morrison came to be a kind of mentor to Thorn, a strong female role model in a male dominated industry. They both faced a chauvinist music media wanting them to behave to type.

In My Rock 'n' Roll Friend, Thorn takes stock of 37 years as friends, teasing out the particular challenges and commonalities of being women performers and performing women. This important book asks what people see, who does the looking and, ultimately, who writes women out of - and back into - history.

©2021 Tracey Thorn (P)2021 Canongate Books Ltd

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Wonderful story

I was a huge fan of the band, but always wanted to know more about Lindy Morrison. Had loved Tracy Thorn’s other books, so was fizzing at the bung to read this one. It doesn’t disappoint, a fascinating story of friendship and what feels like a deep insight into an extraordinary woman . Well done!

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Myopic

A piece that took me back to a time in Brisbane and Australia. A little myopic in its portrayal- but it was Lindy’s view
And Tracey did her best to call out the position

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