Author: Brown, Jenny. Jerrems, Carol.

Publisher: Melbourne: Dingo Books.

Format: Softcover octavo, illustrated wrappers, 160pp. 19.3 x 12.7cm.

Skyhooks formed in 1973 and quickly gained a reputation as Australia’s greatest glam-rock band. Published to coincide with their second album Ego Is Not a Dirty Word (1975), and sharing a cover art illustrator in Neil Curtis, the book charts the band’s history alongside several photographs by Carol Jerrems in her signature portrait style.

The colophon reads “Many thanks are extended to Carol Jerrems for most of the photographs included in the photographic sections.” She appears at the edge of a mirror reflection of Red Symons in one image.

Published just one year after her seminal A Book About Australian Women (1974), and not acknowledged as one of her publications. I firmly believe this book should receive second billing in Jerrems’ ouvre. The first major solo exhibition she had [at the NGA] was, after all, called “Living in the 70s” after the Skyhooks song.

Minor bumping to corners, small watermark to back cover lower left.