Lillian Roxon’s Rock Encyclopedia~Lillian Roxon~1970~First Edition~3rd Printing~Very Good Condition~Very Rare~Free Shipping

Lillian Roxon’s Rock Encyclopedia~Lillian Roxon~1970~First Edition~3rd Printing~Very Good Condition~Very Rare~Free Shipping.

This very rare classic of the first rock encyclopedia is in very good condition. No markings or inscriptions. Clean pages. Very nice dust jacket. Unclipped price. This is truly a collectible find for any rock fan.

In the mid-1960s Roxon became fascinated by pop music and the rise of groups like The Beatles, The Byrds and The Rolling Stones and she began to write regular articles on the subject. In early 1967 she visited San Francisco and was one of the first mainstream journalists to write about the nascent hippie movement, filing a landmark story for The Herald on the subject. She also contributed to Oz magazine along with the short lived Eye magazine in the late 1960s.

Through her writings and her interest in pop, she became one of the leading lights of the social and musical scene that centred on the fabled New York music club Max’s Kansas City, which was frequented by members of the Andy Warhol circle, Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground, Jim Morrison and many others.

Her articles about the burgeoning rock scene are now credited as being foundation stones of serious rock writing, and she has since been described by other leading critics as “the mother of rock”. She was friendly with many leading music stars but rarely became personally involved. Although she looked young enough to mix easily with the rock crowd, she was at least ten years older than most of the musicians she wrote about.

Roxon appears briefly, as an interviewed member of the audience in the film Celebration at Big Sur, filmed at the 1969 Big Sur Folk Festival.

During 1968-69 Roxon was commissioned to write what became the world’s first rock encyclopaedia, published by Grosset & Dunlap in late 1969 and the work for which she is best remembered.

The work had to be written concurrently with her regular duties as the Herald correspondent and other press commitments. The punishing schedule took a heavy toll on her health and she developed asthma. - From Wikipedia

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