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Tracey Thorn

My Rock 'n' Roll Friend

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'An instant feminist classic' Andrew O'Hagan 'I honestly wanted to stand up and cheer' Melissa Harrison In 1983, backstage at the Lyceum in London, Tracey Thorn and Lindy Morrison first met. Tracey's music career was just beginning, while Lindy, drummer for The Go-Betweens, was ten years her senior. They became confidantes, comrades and best friends, a relationship cemented by gossip and feminism, books and gigs and rock 'n' roll love affairs. Morrison — a headstrong heroine blazing her way through a male-dominated industry — came to be a kind of mentor to Thorn. They shared the joy and the struggle of being women in a band, trying to outwit and face down a chauvinist music media. In My Rock 'n' Roll Friend Thorn takes stock of thirty-seven years of friendship, teasing out the details of connection and affection between two women who seem to be either complete opposites or mirror images of each other. This important book asks what people see, who does the looking, and…
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    The conversation is about sexism, and the man is wearing lipstick, but she’s the one doing all the work
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    ‘It means’ – she breathes a deep heavy sigh – ‘it means that I want to feel totally free as a woman. And not feel in any way oppressed by old attitudes that men have forced upon us.’
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    Bands fall apart due to the tensions of personality conflict, but those same antagonisms can also keep them together, providing a kind of internal tension and friction, a jostling for power, an irritating spark.

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