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Helen Reddy obituary – The Guardian
Australian singer who enjoyed huge success with her 1972 feminist anthem I Am Woman
Every social movement has its definitive song, and feminism got its anthem in 1972, when the Australian singer Helen Reddy released the single I Am Woman. In three elegant minutes, it hewed a portal through which schoolgirls and their mothers saw an empowered future. Reaching No 1 in the US and selling 1m copies there, it also established Reddy, who has died aged 78, as one of the top-selling female vocalists of the decade.
In her pomp during the early 1970s no woman sold more records or scored…
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