My Rock 'n' Roll Friend
'Entertaining, affectionate and righteous' Guardian
'Says so much about being a woman' Cosey Fanni Tutti

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.

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. She asks what people see, who does the looking, and ultimately who writes women out of - and back into - history.

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My Rock 'n' Roll Friend
'Entertaining, affectionate and righteous' Guardian
'Says so much about being a woman' Cosey Fanni Tutti

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.

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. She asks what people see, who does the looking, and ultimately who writes women out of - and back into - history.

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My Rock 'n' Roll Friend

My Rock 'n' Roll Friend

by Tracey Thorn
My Rock 'n' Roll Friend

My Rock 'n' Roll Friend

by Tracey Thorn

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'Entertaining, affectionate and righteous' Guardian
'Says so much about being a woman' Cosey Fanni Tutti

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.

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. She asks what people see, who does the looking, and ultimately who writes women out of - and back into - history.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781786898234
Publisher: Canongate Books
Publication date: 09/13/2022
Edition description: Main
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.08(w) x 7.80(h) x (d)

About the Author

Tracey Thorn is a singer-songwriter and writer, best known for her seventeen years in bestselling duo Everything But The Girl. She has released four solo albums, one movie soundtrack, a large handful of singles, and three books, including the Sunday Times bestsellers Another Planet and Bedsit Disco Queen. She lives in London, with her husband Ben Watt and their three children.

@tracey_thorn | traceythorn.com

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Part 1

Boys' Games 9

Terrible Jazz 21

Never Wear Shoes You Can't Run In 25

Two Wimps and a Witch 31

Unkillable Energy 42

Christmas Dinner and The Birthday Parry 45

It's Like Dancing 54

I HATE England 62

Part 2

What Is the Problem? 71

Too Bloody Much 79

Some Perverse Librarian 84

Tapestry 89

Love Is Geography 94

You Will Walk Away 98

Spanish Steps 103

I'll Be Your Mirror 112

I Wouldn't Have Any Friends 120

I Wish I Was Pretty 127

Hell, But I Love Life 137

Part 3

Yoko Is in the Band 145

A Bad Influence 153

Blame the Girlfriends 162

I Am Just a Wreck 167

What Else Is New? 172

Leave Him 176

Don't Think I'm Mad 179

Part 4

Good Girl 193

A Liability 199

Part 5

Ex-Wives 217

The Drummer Is the Band 226

Minor Characters 232

I Want Everything 238

No Filter 241

Postscript 245

Bibliography 246

Acknowledgements 247

Permission Credits 248

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