A forever fan of music, the writer began her career with a little help from her late husband, Richard Robinson, who wrote a syndicated column for the now-defunct London newspaper. By the early ’70s, he got bored, Lisa took over, Led Zeppelin took note of her work, and the rest was history. “He actually opened the door,” she says of her husband. “And I barged through it.”
I always had a feeling in the back of my head that I wanted to write about women, but I didn't know when. And I was busy writing the last book, and doing other work, and the last book had a chapter on Zeppelin and a chapter on the [Rolling] Stones."There Goes Gravity" was the title. That was from an Eminem song,"Lose Yourself," and it won the Oscar. And a chapter on Eminem, a chapter on Bowie, and New York, and that whole CBGB scene.
I got this trust, I think, because I just talk to people. We were having conversations. We were two women, really discussing similar themes. We were talking about men. We were talking about the treatment of business people. We were talking about the male bosses. We'd all experienced the same things. I realized after talking, whether it was Tina Turner, or Dusty Springfield back in the day, or Stevie Nicks, or Joni Mitchell—all these rich, famous women have the same problems that we all have.
Stevie Nicks does brand herself. I don't think Lorde will—we'll see what happens with her. But she told me—and I wrote about this in the book—at the age of 16, she'd direct, going into record executive company meetings and shooting down million-dollar ideas, because she said, she just knew what 16-year-olds would want to listen to, and she wasn't interested in the other stuff. Björk is still like that. Sade is still like that.
and it's Bob Dylan, and it's T Bone Burnett, and it's Allen Ginsberg, and all these people from a tour in 1974. Joni Mitchell arrived late for the tour, and she wrote a song about it called"Coyote." And you see a scene, where she's showing Dylan this song, and he's looking at her, trying to figure out her fingerings and her tunings on the guitar.
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