An exploration of female friendship and women in music, from the iconic
singer-songwriter and bestselling author, Tracey Thorn.
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 37 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 audiobook asks what people see, who does the
looking and ultimately who writes women out of - and back into -
history.
'Though Thorn tells us sharp truths, we gobble them up because she
delivers them in such a deceptively pretty, poignant way.'
Miranda Sawyer, Financial Times
'She's a brilliant writer.'
The Spectator
