(Some of) the Women on My Musical Journey
Thank you friends, wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for you…
All through March, Three Imaginary Girls has been highlighting stories of its writers’ musical journeys, and they’ve been a blast to read. Because mine has largely taken the same trajectory as most people’s my age — older siblings, radio, MTV, and my similarly music-obsessed friends — I thought I’d tie in the fact that March is also National Women’s Month and trace my story through some of the women along the way.
Rozann
My older sister, by 12 years.
Frequently played me Beatles records as an infant and toddler.
Had an LP and 45 collection, which fascinated me as objects at least as much as they did for the music they contained. (Record labels alone are fascinating.)
Wouldn’t let me play her single of “The Letter” by The Box Tops, leading me to buy their Super Hits album from our dad’s store when I was five, my first LP.
Handed down my first record player, a mid-’60s Westinghouse portable that I believe had first belonged to our eldest brother Jay.
Subscribed to Rolling Stone in the late 1970s, then gave me a gift subscription for my birthday so I’d stop stealing hers.
