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How Helen Reddy sang to me – even as a 12-year-old boy – Sydney Morning Herald
Memories came flooding back as I watched the enjoyable, if predictable, biopic of the Australian superstar, ‘I Am Woman’. But its feminist rhetoric jarred me.
It confirmed me as a devoted fan of Helen Reddy. Which is how I ended up in a local radio competition the following year, standing on a rickety metal stairwell belting out Reddys Delta Dawn at The Newcastle Show. I got runner-up; my prize, a new product known as Cheezels.
These memories came flooding back as I watched the Helen Reddy biopic, I Am Woman. But its feminist rhetoric jarred me.
My associations had been personal and naïve. A moment in the film where Reddy sings Angie Baby took me back…
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