Brisbane's flame-haired powerhouse singer songwriter Carol Lloyd – the woman who gave Australia the great 1970s rock song A Matter of Time – has died in Brisbane's Wesley Hospital.

Lloyd was described last year as the "mother figure" of the Brisbane and Queensland music scene by Queensland Music Festival director Katie Noonan as a benefit concert was organised for her health.

A 2015 portrait of Carol Lloyd from the A Matter of Time Project, released in 2016. Credit:Heather Faulkner

"Carol is like the mother figure of the Brisbane and Queensland music scene," Noonan said in October, before the Ruby Tuesday benefit concert.

"And the fact that she has paved the way for countless women in Brisbane, in Queensland, in Australia and around the world as well.