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A Requiem For Miss Christine

Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 26 November 1972

THE DEATH OF Christine Frka has depressed me deeply. Miss Christine (she never used that troublesome last name) had her shining face on this page a few months ago in an article about the Sidewinders. She was in an all-girl group long before Fanny and Birtha. It was called the GTO's (Girls Together Occasionally), and it was wonderful but strange and well ahead of its time. The girls all looked like beautiful versions of Alice Cooper — before anyone knew who Alice was.

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