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Last night Andrew Denton interviewed Chrissy Amphlett on Enough Rope. An interesting interview but one was better framed if you have read her autobiography Pleasure and Pain. Pleasure and Pain is almost a cautionary tale for those wanting to stride the rock’n’roll stage. Alcohol, drugs, volatile personal and professional relationships, getting ripped off and underpaid via ill-advised publishing, recording and touring contracts. Chrissy’s account of her time with Divinyls is of rock’n’roll legend. And an Australian rock’n’roll legend she is. Her Divinyls persona was both confronting and alluring (When I first say the video for The Boys in Town she became my first rock’n’roll crush. Kelly Johnson from Girlschool was my second). Chrissy’s attitude was ground breaking for Australian rock’n’roll as this segment from the transcript of Enough Rope reveals (Patrica Amphlett, Chrissy’s cousin, may be known better to some as Little Pattie): CHRISSY AMPHLETT: Well, I sort of needed something to free me up because I’d stand back at the drums, with Harve, and often at the back, and I sort of thought the audience was my enemy. I’d stand there like this, and I just couldn’t free myself. I couldn’t connect. I’m singing these songs, ‘I’m Through with Hanging Around all the Boys in Town’, and I felt really vulnerable because it was true. But I needed some sort of wall to separate me between singing these really personal lyrics, so I went out and bought a school uniform and I put suspenders and stockings on and it just gave me this character that freed me up to have a bit of this character and this St Trinians girl that I could just offset this vulnerable me. It just gave me this wall and this costume to express myself with, and all of a sudden I’m running up and down the audience, the stage, and this whole persona emerged.