Alas she entirely lost me from the third paragraph onwards. I hate being dictated to what it means to be a "real" fan. Especially when much of the musical innovation and the working drive actually came from cuddly suburbia.
You should use the link to absorb a bit more of her writing, though. She was, thinking back on it, a bit too caught up in the fannish fandom wars of the time - but read the piece called 'A Mitcham Mint' to see just how inventively funny she could be.
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