Holly Knight's singular music career included crafting a good part
of the soundtrack to the MTV eighties with mega-hits for Tina
Turner ("The Best"), Pat Benatar ("Love Is A Battlefield"), and
Patty Smyth ("The Warrior")-songs that celebrated female
empowerment and shaped pop and rock for years to come. "Holly
Knight wrote some of the best and toughest songs for female
artists. Her songs helped pave the way for women in rock. Not to
mention a few dudes." -Patty Smyth As a writer and musician, Holly
Knight worked hard and played hard with the likes of KISS, Rod
Stewart, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, and Heart. She showed the boys how it
was done when many women were still struggling to get a foot in the
door. Starting in the late 1970s in post-punk New York, Knight, a
gifted keyboardist, joined the band Spider-which quickly ascended
to buzzworthy status before things began to disintegrate.
Fortunately, her song "Better Be Good to Me" found its way to Tina
Turner and became the second single on her landmark solo album,
Private Dancer, launching Holly into rarified air. Soon she was
being sought out to write for other artists in search of the big
hit or their lead single. Coinciding with the birth of MTV,
Knight's powerful lyrics, hooks, and melodies became a staple on
the channel as it exploded into a cultural force. "People who grew
up in the eighties tell me that MTV was the soundtrack to their
lives. Holly Knight deserves much of the credit. Few songwriters
have written such a diverse collection of songs for such a broad
range of superstars." -Alan Hunter But it was an often lonely
journey to success. Not only was Holly a woman in a male-dominated
industry that didn't welcome women warmly into the inner sanctum,
she carried with her the baggage of a difficult childhood and a
fraught relationship with her mother, the substance of which
informed the themes that made her songs so anthemic. I Am the
Warrior is a story of survival, perseverance, and triumph laced
with ample amounts of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. Backstage,
onstage, in the studio, and on the road, this book is a revealing,
bang-bang tale that welcomes you along for a look back at one of
the most adventurous and colorful periods in music history. "I Am
the Warrior takes readers on a wild ride through the eighties world
of rock 'n' roll from a strong female's perspective. Songwriters
Hall of Fame-inductee Holly Knight delivers the goods and stands
out as a creative, gutsy woman who made her way through a field
dominated by men, ultimately coming out on top. If you love music
like I do, this is a must-read!" -Cassandra Peterson (AKA Elvira,
Mistress of the Dark)
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