Lilian Roxon: Mother Of Rock

Lillian Roxon was a groundbreaking Australian rock journalist who took New York by storm. Her 'Rock Encyclopedia', published in 1969, changed the way rock music was perceived. A 600-plus page book on everybody who was anybody in the business, it showcased Lillian's witty and irreverent insights into trends and established legends.

Roxon also led the life she wrote about with such verve and insight - in the '60s, she sat on the throne of that infamous New York venue, Max's Kansas City. It was the club where Jimi Hendrix, Mick Jagger, Janis Joplin and other stars-in-waiting came to hang out. Roxon's knowledge of rock music's movers and shakers was unchallenged. The epithet "Mother of Rock" is a fitting accolade.

Now Robert Milliken tells her story, from her early bohemian days as a pioneering journalist through to her untimely and tragic death in 1973. Milliken has interviewed everyone from Rupert Murdoch to Richard Meltzer to assemble this fascinating portrait of an extraordinary spirit. Read it and understand why Germaine Greer dedicated her groundbreaking 'The Female Eunuch' to Lillian Roxon.