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Helen Reddy songs: a lifeline to a kid struggling to belong – Los Angeles Times
The women who populated many of Helen Reddy’s hit songs were outcasts and pariahs. A writer, then a young boy, found solace in them.
Helen Reddy, the Australian-born pop singer who died on Tuesday in Los Angeles at the age of 78, has justly been celebrated and mourned for her groundbreaking, then nigh-radical hit I Am Woman, which reached the top of the charts late in 1972.
True, hearing it now, it seems almost quaint in its bald polemicism if you can describe as polemicism the rather mild notion that a woman, or rather all women, are as strong, powerful and ready to roar as men. Women of the era naturally propelled the song…
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