In this editorial about the trouble with album covers, Lillian Roxon is clearly addressing her audience as one rock fan to another (‘You can say it’s irrelevant, but you know and I know that it isn

Fond of a pun, Lillian Roxon’s background as a tabloid journalist shows in the headline for this radio story, ‘Has Jim Morrison Closed The Doors?’.

Known as ‘the Mother of Rock’, Lillian Roxon effectively presents herself here as being at the epicentre of music and culture in New York City in the 1970s.

Lillian Roxon champions ahead-of-their-time band The Velvet Underground and lead singer Lou Reed, who is about to strike out on his own.

‘The most exciting people in music are the writers at the moment’, says rock journalist Lillian Roxon boldly in 1973.

In this report about female rock groups Fanny and Pride of Women, Lillian Roxon’s passion for the advancement of women in rock shines through.

Restaurant and music venue Max's Kansas City in New York City was legendary in the 1960s and 1970s.

Lillian Roxon boldly declares ‘I love [David] Bowie’.

It’s obvious from this recording that Lillian Roxon prides herself on being able to identify which acts will make it big.

This episode of Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey includes an overview of Sydney’s ‘high life’ down through the decades from the Lord Mayor’s 1844 Fancy Dress Ball to dancing at t