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Writing women into music history has taken some time.
Collections likeWoman Walk the LineandPretty Good for a Girlrub spines with memoirs from indie goddessesCarrie BrownsteinandKim Gordon.
We live our lives like fugitives, Cash writes, when we were born to live like queens.
Oftentimes, womens voices arent absent so much as erased.
Ono corrects the record with her new bookImagine John Yoko,a making-of documentary in book form.
The result gives new meaning to the line, Imagine all the people.
Ill be honest with you, she writes.
Im certainly trying to be honest with myself.
Collages and drawings from Mapplethorpe beautifully complement Smiths descriptionsof his distinctive aesthetic.
