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All I Ever Wanted : A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir
The Go-Go's / Kathy Valentine - Book - by Kathy Valentine
(2022)
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.
