She was woman

In 2013, Unjoo Moon was at a screen-industry dinner ceremony in Los Angeles with Dion Beebe, her Oscar-winning cinematographer husband. The Australian couple had just made the documentary The Zen of Bennett about enduring crooner Tony Bennett, which had featured Aretha Franklin, Lady Gaga and the last recorded performance by Amy Winehouse.

Arriving at their table, Moon, a former ABC reporter, found herself facing another chapter in pop history.

Sitting quietly across the table was Helen Reddy. Moon quickly swapped seats to introduce herself. She may have been a child growing up in Sydney when Reddy ruled the easy-listening airwaves in the first half of the 1970s, but she well recalls the singer’s impact.

“I remember her music from sitting in the backseat of my parents’ yellow Volvo station wagon in the 1970s. When the music used to come on the radio, my mother and her friend used to wind down the window – from being sort of