Barnes & NobleI Am The Warrior: My Crazy Life Writing the Hits and Rocking the Mtv Eighties by Holly Knight

Holly Knights 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 Spiderwhich 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, Knights powerful lyrics, hooks, and melodies became a staple on the channel as it exploded into a cultural force.