Lillian Roxon interviewed by Jennie Blackton on radio show 'American Contemporary', broadcast 21 September 1968, New York

MLOH 630

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21 September 1968

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1 sound tape reel - 3 minutes 32 seconds

Short interview for radio, with Lillian Roxon talking about her assignment interviewing the Beatles in New York in 1968.

Lillian Roxon was a journalist, foreign correspondent and rock music expert. By the 1960s, she was part of the New York rock scene and became well acquainted with the major rock musicians of the period. She was the first full-time female employee at the Sydney Morning Herald's New York office, and her Rock Encyclopedia was published in 1969. By the early 1970s she had a regular column, 'The Top of Pop', with New York's Sunday News, and another, 'The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Sex' in Mademoiselle magazine.

Reference:
The Women's Pages: Australian women and journalism since 1850. http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/roxon.html (accessed 11 April, 2012)

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