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All I Ever Wanted - A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir (Paperback)
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All I Ever Wanted - A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir (Paperback)
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Loot Price R360
Discovery Miles 3 600
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At twenty-one, Kathy Valentine was at the Whisky in Los Angeles
when she met a guitarist from a fledgling band called the Go-Go
s?and the band needed a bassist. The Go-Go s became the first
multi-platinum-selling, all-female band to play instruments
themselves, write their own songs, and have a number one album.
Their debut, Beauty & The Beat, spent six weeks at the top of
the Billboard 200 and featured the hit songs We Got the Beat and
Our Lips Are Sealed . The record s success brought the pressures of
a relentless workload and schedule culminating in a wild, hazy,
substance-fuelled tour that took the band from the club circuit to
arenas, where fans, promoters, and crew were more than ready to
keep the party going. For Valentine, the band s success was the
fulfilment of a lifelong dream?but that s only part of her story.
All I Ever Wanted traces the path that took her from her childhood
in Texas?where she all but raised herself?to the height of rock n
roll stardom, devastation after the collapse of the band that had
come to define her, and the quest to regain her sense of self after
its end. Valentine also speaks candidly about the lasting effects
of parental betrayal, abortion, rape, and her struggles with drugs
and alcohol?and the music that saved her every step of the way.
Populated with vivid portraits of Valentine s interactions during
the 1980s with musicians and actors from The Police and Rod Stewart
to John Belushi and Rob Lowe, All I Ever Wanted is a deeply
personal reflection on a life spent in music.
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