INTRODUCTION
...Well, for one thing, you're not going to see us do a Men In Rock special—so that's probably the point. Inside these pages, CREEM Close-Up takes a look at the women who've been making waves since rock 'n' roll's early days. Writer Jim Feldman focuses on the '60s girl-group phenomenon”—a topic so interesting that, as Feldman points out, Alan Betrock recently wrote a book on the subject.
INTRODUCTION
...Well, for one thing, you're not going to see us do a Men In Rock special—so that's probably the point.
Inside these pages, CREEM Close-Up takes a look at the women who've been making waves since rock 'n' roll's early days. Writer Jim Feldman focuses on the '60s girl-group phenomenon”—a topic so interesting that, as Feldman points out, Alan Betrock recently wrote a book on the subject. We supply an overview of rock's leading women from the '60s—Lesley Gore, anyone?—through the 70s— Linda Ronstadt?—to current '80s champs, Pat Benatar, Joan Jett and more. Toby Goldstein has collected some interesting quotes made by—and about—women during the past few years, and gradually it becomes clear that what was once an oddity, a diversion, ("women in rock," indeed)—is in fact a tradition and, with every day, becoming the norm. In other words, the term "Women In Rock" is on the verge of becoming entirely redundant, and it’s about time.