All I Ever Wanted

A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir

Kathy Valentine (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2020
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-1233-9 (ISBN)

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Runner-up, Carr P. Collins Award for Best Book of Non-Fiction, 2021

Go-Go’s bassist Kathy Valentine’s story is a roller coaster of sex, drugs, and of course, music; it’s also a story of what it takes to find success and find yourself, even when it all comes crashing down.

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 and 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-fueled 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 fulfillment of a lifelong dream-but it’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.

Kathy Valentine is a working musician and songwriter known for being part of the all-female band the Go-Go’s. She wrote or cowrote many of the band’s most renowned songs, including “Vacation” and “Head Over Heels.” In addition to playing music and writing songs, Valentine has worked as an actor, public speaker and spokesperson, and producer. In 2017 she created “She Factory,” an event series to raise money for women-centered nonprofits. She currently lives in her hometown of Austin with her daughter, where she plays in a band and is completing her first college degree.

Preface
Prologue: Hullabaloo
Chapter 1. The Stars Start Falling
Chapter 2. Magic Cloak
Chapter 3. Liquid Forget
Chapter 4. Vacation
Chapter 5. Teenage Babylon
Chapter 6. Just Do It
Chapter 7. Greenbriar
Chapter 8. Earthquake
Chapter 9. Carnations
Chapter 10. Clubland
Chapter 11. Throwing Shapes
Chapter 12. Virtuosity
Chapter 13. Red Head
Chapter 14. Nut Whites
Chapter 15. Tropicana
Chapter 16. Chino Jam
Chapter 17. Regular Format
Chapter 18. Good Mojo
Chapter 19. Wild Jokers
Chapter 20. Unforgiven
Chapter 21. Next to Merle
Chapter 22. Balance the Buzz
Chapter 23. Little Scissor
Chapter 24. Private Jet
Chapter 25. Don’t Leave
Chapter 26. Tutus and Tiaras
Chapter 27. Bash and Crash
Chapter 28. Giant Baby
Chapter 29. Diversions
Chapter 30. Helicopter
Chapter 31. Convertibles
Chapter 32. Shrinking, Sinking
Chapter 33. Let’s Have a Party
Chapter 34. Falsity
Chapter 35. Camouflage
Chapter 36. The Same Union
Chapter 37. Queen Bees
Chapter 38. The Right Way
Chapter 39. Gold and Platinum
Chapter 40. Cheerleader
Chapter 41. Fried and Raw
Chapter 42. Cookies
Chapter 43. Ultras
Chapter 44. Thingy in the Sky
Epilogue-a-Go-Go
Acknowledgments
A Note on Sources and Identifications
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.04.2020
Zusatzinfo	22 b&w photos
Verlagsort	Austin, TX
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	513 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
ISBN-10	1-4773-1233-1 / 1477312331
ISBN-13	978-1-4773-1233-9 / 9781477312339
Zustand	Neuware