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1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 min. 11 sec.) ; 315846903 bytes |
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On her way to New York in 1959, a young Australian journalist Lillian Roxon, who'd grown up as an impressionable teenager in the town of Brisbane awash with American servicemen, stopped in Hawaii to interview Colonel Tom Parker. Symbolically this would mark the beginning of Lillian's passion for Rock'n'Roll.Ten years later, she was the queen of New York's coolest club, Max's Kansas City. When Andy Warhol's Factory superstars collided with the underground music scene at Max's, punk rock was born. It would be the new sound of the world, and was defined by the Velvet Underground, the New York Dolls and Iggy Pop, whose attitudes and sounds still influence us today.Lillian was a music visionary who understood before anyone else how important music would be in shaping popular culture. She became known as 'the mother of rock' and celebrated the world of popular music in her book, The Rock Encyclopedia, first published in 1969. Lillian was a funny, bitchy, passionate woman 30 years ahead of her time - appropriately the following year in 1970 Germaine Greer would dedicate The Female Eunuch to Lillian.The program features an amazing cast including interviews with Iggy Pop, Alice Cooper, Germaine Greer, Danny Fields, Lisa Robinson (Vanity Fair), Lenny Kaye (the Patti Smith Group) , friend Richard Neville, her former boss Derryn Hinch, rock photographers Leee Black Childers and Anton Perich, and many of Lillian's closest personal friends including author David Malouf and film producer Margaret Fink. (Commissioned by SBS) (Documentary) M (L,N,S) CC |
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Closed captioning in English |
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Broadcast 2011-01-26 at 20:30:00 |
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Classification: M |
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Journalists -- Biography.
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Music journalists.
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Rock music.
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Roxon, Lillian.
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Women music critics.
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United States.
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Streaming video
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Clarke, Paul, director
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Davis, Judy, cast
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