To find her stories, she reads endless old books, biographies, interviews and newspaper reports, and watches hours of long-forgotten movies and retrospective documentaries.
We live in a world where the obsession with music's past threatens to overwhelm its present, where the only music magazines that sell in any quantity deal in heritage rock, where virtually the only TV coverage of music comes via retrospective documentaries: the story of modern pop has been told and retold until it's been reduced to a series of tired anecdotes and over-familiar landmarks.
That year also saw the release of the retrospective documentary Crossfire Hurricane.
Anyway, in the latest chapter of his story, a retrospective documentary film, simply called Hockney, it's impossible not to get a bit drunk all over again on the clothes, whether they're from his 60s heyday or right now.
Izzard will be fitted with a lightweight camera so BBC3 viewers get a "real-time" experience of his superhuman efforts, which previously would have been shown as a retrospective documentary.
Elsewhere, the retrospective documentary "9/11: 10 Years Later" on CBS averaged a strong 12.3 million viewers over a two-hour period, good enough to put the network in second place for the night in total viewership.
But their friendship quickly soured when Temple became part of the clique around the Sex Pistols, about whom he went on to make three films: 1977's Sex Pistols Number One, 1979's Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle and 2000's retrospective documentary, The Filth and the Fury.
A thought prompted because, as a birthday gift, there are effectively three MOTDs this week, with the two highlights programmes joined by Match of the Day at 50 (Friday, 10.35pm, BBC1), a retrospective documentary, which has the advantage over the rest of the franchise of being available in advance to critics.
Kenney Jones replaced Moon and the group resumed activity, releasing a film adaptation of Quadrophenia and the retrospective documentary The Kids Are Alright.
All of the above, along with producer Andre Ptaszynski, also feature in a 45-minute retrospective documentary, After the Chalk Dust Settled.
EMI reissued expanded/remastered editions of all Hoodoo Gurus albums (from February 2005); also released was Tunnel Vision (2005), a two-DVD set compiling every Gurus' video, never-before-seen live material and a retrospective documentary, "Be My Guru".
