BOYS CLUB

Women divas dominate the Australian pop charts. But the power in pop music is still male. “For a business that sells itself as hip, liberal and progressive, key aspects of the music industry remain as much of a boys’ club as they were when Elvis Presley moseyed into Memphis and signed up with Sun Records. It begs the question: if 50 per cent of all record producers since Rock Around The Clock had been women, how different might the catalogue of western pop sound? Would we have landed elsewhere musically in 2000?” – Sydney Morning Herald