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 Tracey Thorn, Everything But The Girl’s vocalist, has written a new book about her friendship with The Go-Betweens drummer Lindy Morrison. Titled My Rock ’n’ Roll Friend, after the influential Australian group’s 1988 song ‘Rock And Roll Friend’, it hits shelves April 1.

Thorn first met Morrison in March 1983 backstage at the Lyceum in London, when their bands Marine Girls and The Go-Betweens shared supporting duties for an Orange Juice gig. As women in a male-dominated rock music sphere, the pair became confidantes when the Australian band spent several years living in London in the mid-’80s in a small apartment shared with Nick Cave.

As the pair went on to achieve opposite levels of success (The Go-Betweens struggling to hit commercial highs), they remained in touch, sharing their lives in letters until an abrupt stop in 1998 with the advent of email. Pilot Indicator Mug

Thorn – who is also an accomplished author and columnist – began to write after she flew to Australia in 2019 and spent a week reconnecting with Morrison in person for the first time in 20 years. The book’s stories and intricate details were compiled from a mixture of interviews, kept letters, and diary entries provided by Morrison herself, as well as existing accounts of the band.

My Rock ’n’ Roll Friend provides context for Morrison’s mercurial character through her formative early 20s – when she worked for the first iteration of the Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service, embarked on a hitchhiking trip through Europe (where she played bridge with Roger Moore), and played in the punk band Zero.

It’s also at times a feminist retelling of The Go-Betweens story, re-litigating several key aspects of the band’s myth. “If Robert [Forster] and Grant [McLennan] (in their dreams) were Lennon and McCartney,” she writes, “then Lindy was Yoko – the woman in between the two men, creative in her own right, disrupting their friendship.”

NME spoke to Thorn about subverting existing myths about The Go-Betweens, navigating sexism in rock music and being careful about telling her friend’s story.

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