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Podcast: Liner Notes: Revealing Chats With Canada's Retro Music Makers
Episode: Lee Aaron - iconic vocalist, singer/songwriter
Description: Singer/songwriter, iconic vocalist and fearless re-inventor Lee Aaron is known as a trailblazer for women in rock thanks to her 1984 song ‘Metal Queen’, a shout out against sexism toward women in that genre. In this in depth talk with Dan Hare, Lee reveals: the challenges of being a pioneer woman hard rock musician, including objectification and her struggle to gain credibility; why she stopped including the song ‘Metal Queen’ in her live shows and why she started playing it again; how her popularity in Europe was influential in her career in Canada; the connection between hair product commercials and her ‘80s...