Helen Reddy
12 articles
Audio interviews
Interview by Jeff Apter, Rock's Backpages audio, 30 November 2012
The Australian icon on her hardscrabble early years in America; her friendships with journalist Lillian Roxon, Liza Minnelli and with songwriter Peter Allen; her first hit 'I Don't Know How to Love Him', and her massive 'I Am a Woman'; feminism and her Grammy speech; her retirement, and her fascination with hypnotism and spiritualism.
File format: mp3; file size: 45.1mb, interview length: 1h 36' 07" sound quality: ** (wind, background noise)
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Helen Reddy: Helen now a star in demand
Profile by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 27 June 1971
THEY invited 20 people for a quiet little get together back at their Hilltop home after her show closed — and 280 turned up. ...
Helen Reddy: Weekend Ever Reddy
Interview by Penny Valentine, Sounds, 5 February 1972
A VERY HEAVY American biography on Helen Reddy comes on with excessive amounts of material on the supernatural, her beliefs in ESP and parapsychology* until ...
Interview by Jacoba Atlas, Melody Maker, 12 February 1972
"I STARTED singing my own songs because no one else was saying what I wanted to say," explains Helen Reddy, the Australian born singer who ...
Comment by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 26 November 1972
THE DEATH OF Christine Frka has depressed me deeply. Miss Christine (she never used that troublesome last name) had her shining face on this page ...
A Rock Critic's Rough and Reddy Life
Report by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 29 April 1973
THE LIFE of a rock and roll writer, as I have said all too often before, is not all sunshine and roses. The Friday night ...
Kim Fowley: The Solid Gold Whipping Boy of Sunset Strip
Interview by Radio Pete, Rocky Mountain Musical Express, June 1977
COUNTLESS PEOPLE in the music business have called Kim Fowley everything from a "rancid little pimp" to a "cheesey hustler who pushes shit groups out ...
Helen Reddy: Palladium, London
Live Review by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 20 May 1978
THERE IS something about Helen Reddy which just gets up my nose. I didn't know that, mind you, before I went to the first of ...
Kim Fowley: Prince Of Dog Food
Profile and Interview by Radio Pete, New York Rocker, July 1979
KIM FOWLEY has been called everything from "a rancid pimp" to "an egomaniac hustler who pushes shit groups out of the toilets of pop music." ...
Sandy Robertson's Hollywood Confidential
Report by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 1 September 1979
"On my first visit to Los Angeles I was conventionally prepared for almost anything except for what it really looked like – a quite beautiful ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, The Faber Companion to 20th-Century Popular Music, 2001
b. 25 October 1941, Melbourne, Australia ...
Obituary by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 30 September 2020
Australian singer who enjoyed huge success with her 1972 feminist anthem 'I Am Woman' ...
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