December 9, 1972 -- Nothing in her professional credentials suggested the Australian pop singer Helen Reddy as a feminist icon prior to 1972. Shed made her way to the United States from her native Australia on her own to pursue stardom, and shed paid her dues working on the periphery of the music business for a number of years before making a breakthrough. Yet when that breakthrough came, it was in the form of a 1971 cover version of I Dont Know How To Love Him from Jesus Christ Superstar—hardly a song about womens liberation. But a feminist icon is exactly what Helen Reddy would become the very next year, when the anthem-to-be I Am Woman charged up the pop charts, reaching the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 14:05:19 +0000
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