The Real Rock Follies : Pallas Athene : 9781999705404 : 1999705408 : 04 Aug 2023 : October 21, 1982. Three singers stand on the steps of the HighCourt with large cheques and broken dreams.The women are Annie (Annabel Leventon, the book&;s author),GB (Gaye Brown), and Di-Di (Diane Langton). Their dreamwas of a British three-woman rock band, unique and differentfrom anything that had gone before. They called themselvesRock Bottom. They were raunchy, rude and hilarious &; thecontemporary media described them as &;a cross between thefemale Rolling Stones and the female Marx Brothers&; &; and theynearly made it.Until Thames Television stole everything and made a majoraward-winning series called Rock Follies, about them, based onthem, but without them. It made stars of the three lookalikesplaying them. And they lost everything.A common enough tale of showbiz betrayal. Except that theyfought back. At the offset of the Court trial, the Head of Dramaat Thames TV sarcastically quipped, &;three l