The unchallenged queen of the New York rock scene.

On her way to New York in 1959, a young Australian journalist Lillian Roxon, who’d grown up as an impressionable teenager in the town of Brisbane awash with American servicemen, stopped in Hawaii to interview Colonel Tom Parker. Symbolically this would mark the beginning of Lillian’s passion for Rock’n’Roll. Ten years later, she was the queen of New York’s coolest club, Max’s Kansas City, and would write the first ever Rock Encyclopedia. Roxon lived close to the Factory and was friends with Warhol and his superstars and the rock crowd who increasingly flocked to Max’s to be seen and to hear the new sounds of Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, and the New York Dolls. At Max’s, Pop Art collided with rock and roll and ultimately gave rise to the birth of Punk.

Mother of Rock: Lillian Roxon shines a light into the decadent world of Max’s, and Lillian’s place in documenting the emerging rock revolution as it rolled over the US in the 1960s and early 1970s. The film features an amazing cast including new interviews with Iggy Pop. Alice Cooper, Germaine Greer, Danny Fields, Lisa Robinson (Vanity Fair), Lenny Kaye (the Patti Smith Group) , friend Richard Neville (of the Old Bailey Oz magazine trial notoriety), her former boss Derryn Hinch, rock photographers Leee Black Childers and Anton Perich, and many of Lillian’s closest personal friends including Booker Prize nominated author David Malouf and film producer Margaret Fink.