My Rock 'n' Roll Friend
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"An exploration of female friendship and women in music, from the iconic singer-songwriter and bestselling author of Another Planet and Bedsit Disco Queen. 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 ultimately who writes women out of - and back into - history."--Publisher information.
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PUBLISHED
Edinburgh : Canongate, 2021.
Year Published: 2021
Description: 247 pages ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1786898225
9781786898227
1838854045
SUBJECTS
Thorn, Tracey -- Friends and associates.
Morrison, Lindy, -- 1951- -- Friends and associates.
Female friendship.