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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 1469266" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p>Dec. 9, 1972</p><p>Nothing in her professional credentials suggested the Australian pop singer Helen Reddy as a feminist icon prior to 1972. She'd made her way to the <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/states" target="_blank">United States</a> from her native Australia on her own to pursue stardom, and she'd paid her dues working on the periphery of the music business for a number of years before making a breakthrough. Yet when that breakthrough came, it was in the form of a 1971 cover version of "I Don't Know How To Love Him" from <em>Jesus Christ Superstar</em>—hardly a song about women's liberation. But a feminist icon is exactly what Helen Reddy would become the very next year, when the anthem-to-be "I Am Woman" charged up the pop charts, reaching the #1 spot on the <em>Billboard Hot 100 </em>on this day in 1972.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 1469266, member: 1246"] Dec. 9, 1972 Nothing in her professional credentials suggested the Australian pop singer Helen Reddy as a feminist icon prior to 1972. She'd made her way to the [URL='http://www.history.com/topics/states']United States[/URL] from her native Australia on her own to pursue stardom, and she'd paid her dues working on the periphery of the music business for a number of years before making a breakthrough. Yet when that breakthrough came, it was in the form of a 1971 cover version of "I Don't Know How To Love Him" from [I]Jesus Christ Superstar[/I]—hardly a song about women's liberation. But a feminist icon is exactly what Helen Reddy would become the very next year, when the anthem-to-be "I Am Woman" charged up the pop charts, reaching the #1 spot on the [I]Billboard Hot 100 [/I]on this day in 1972. [/QUOTE]
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