If you haven't seen it already, check out the recent documentary on Australian ‘Mother of Rock’ Journo Lillian Roxon. LOVE it, ROCK it.
Lillian Roxon was a journalist living in the US in the mid-1960s and was fascinated by popular music and the rise of groups like The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Through her writings and her interest in pop, she became one of the leading lights of the social and musical scene that centred on the fabled New York music club Max’s Kansas City, which was frequented by members of the Andy Warhol circle, Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground, Jim Morrison and many others. Her articles about the burgeoning rock scene are now credited as being foundation stones of serious rock writing, and she has since been described by other leading critics as "the mother of rock". She also published the book Lillian Roxon's Rock Encyclopaedia in 1969.
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