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HELEN REDDY

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​Helen Maxine Reddy (25 October 1941 – 29 September 2020) was an Australian-American singer, actress, television host, and activist. Born in Melbourne to a showbusiness family, Reddy started her career as an entertainer at age four. She sang on radio and television and won a talent contest on the television program Bandstand in 1966; her prize was a ticket to New York City and a record audition, which was unsuccessful. After a short and unsuccessful singing career in New York, she eventually moved to Chicago, and subsequently, Los Angeles, where she made her debut singles "One Way Ticket" and "I Believe in Music" in 1968 and 1970, respectively. The B-side of the latter single, "I Don't Know How to Love Him", reached number eight on the pop chart of the Canadian magazine RPM. She was signed to Capitol Records a year later.
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May 10, 2023: Chaospin: The 10 Best Helen Reddy Songs of All-Time​
​The singer released her first album in 1968, and by the 1970s, she was enjoying international success. Helen Reddy went on to become one of the most successful female artists of the 1970s, and she won multiple awards. During her career as a singer and songwriter, Helen Reddy released 18 studio albums, 15 compilation albums, one live album, one video album, one soundtrack album, and 31 singles. Here are the 10 best Helen Reddy songs of all time.
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​My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music.   
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  • "I’d gotten involved in the Women’s Movement, and there were a lot of songs on the radio about being weak and being dainty and all those sort of things. All the women in my family, they were strong women. They worked. They lived through the Depression and a world war, and they were just strong women. I certainly didn’t see myself as being dainty."
    •      -Helen Reddy On her motivation to write a renowned song, "I Am Woman"

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  • As a moral issue, abortion will be debated as long as humankind is able to debate. I respect all points of view as being valid to the holder. What concerns me is abortion as a legal and political issue. I am against all reproductive laws for the same reason I am against the draft. I believe that legal ownership of one’s body is the most basic civil and human right. Without it, we are all slaves to whatever government is in power at any given time.                                                    --Reddy, Helen (2006). The Woman I Am. Penguin Books.On abortion, pg. 184.

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  • "History will be much kinder to Richard Nixon than his contemporaries have been. Truths will come to light that will reveal him to be a more honorable man than some who have come to that office after him."                                                  --Reddy, Helen (2006). The Woman I Am. Penguin Books.
  • On the legacy of then-American president Richard Nixon and his successors, pg. 217

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Apr-75 PROGRAMME CONCERT BOOKLET WITH PICTURES AND INFO UK
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