I was able to let go of some of the leftover crap from my childhood,” she said. “It was very cathartic." Our servers are getting hit pretty hard right now. To continue shopping, enter the characters as they are shown

Holly Knight on songwriting for Tina Turner, Pat Benatar Holly Knight on songwriting for Tina Turner, Pat Benatar

I loved how she constructed the book too --almost as if it were one of her songs. It had all of the elements such as a good intro, excellent lyrics (the words) and the build up and crescendos that are all hallmarks of HollySongs.

So I thought I would give it a shot," she said. "And as it turns out, it came very naturally to me, like it was oozing out of every pore.”

Holly Knight - Wikipedia

In 2013, she was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. She has won thirteen ASCAP Awards, and has co-written hits for numerous successful recording artists, including Tina Turner and Pat Benatar who each won Grammy Awards for their recordings of her songs. Holly joined a list of other trailblazing women by contributing her story to the 2017 book Because I Was a Girl: True Stories for Girls of All Ages, published by Henry Holt and Company. Better Be Good to Me" with Tina Turner (from Miami Vice episode "Give a Little, Take a Little") (1991)Tina Turner - " The Best"; " Better Be Good to Me"; " One of the Living"; "You Can't Stop Me Loving You"; " Be Tender with Me Baby"; "Ask Me How I Feel"; " Love Thing"; " In Your Wildest Dreams"; "Do Something" Knight has written hits for some of the most successful artists in music, both on her own and in collaboration with others. For Pat Benatar, in addition to "Love Is a Battlefield", she wrote " Invincible". " The Best"—first recorded by Bonnie Tyler—became an international No. 1 single for Tina Turner. Knight wrote songs with Heart, Aerosmith, Rod Stewart, Bon Jovi, and many more. Tina Turner has recorded nine of her tunes, including "The Best", "Better Be Good to Me", and " In Your Wildest Dreams" (1996). Holly Knight was voted the Best Songwriter in Rolling Stone magazine's 11th annual poll, along with Phil Collins, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, and Bruce Springsteen. This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately. In 1988, Knight was listed in the "Best Songwriter Category/Readers Poll" of Rolling Stone along with Bruce Springsteen, Phil Collins, Paul Simon, and Billy Joel. The inside dish was...dishy and fun. Rod Stewart is lazy and will throw you under the bus? Honey he lives in Palm Beach, we all know that! It's hard to be woman in the music industry in any capacity, I think we all know that. One could say Holly makes too big a deal of meeting other famous musicians and not being introduced as an A-list songwriter by whatever man she's with. However, I think ANY woman will know that some men (especially in the cutthroat entertainment industry) are threatened by a woman's success. Gee, in any other industry as well.

The Woman Behind Tina Turner’s “The Best” and Many More

Knight learned of the legend’s abuse at the hands of Ike Turner while reading “I, Tina,” the memoir that became the basis for the biopic “What's Love Got to Do With It.” And Knight never discussed the abuse she endured at the hands of her own mother with Turner. As to why, of all her famous songs, Holly chose I Am the Warrior as the title of her book, she says that when she first wrote this song, she didn’t know that it would be a big hit, nor did she know that it would “serve as a kind of theme song for the rest of my life. It didn’t feel autobiographical when I wrote it, but as I’ve learned, sometimes we don’t write songs – the songs write us.”Find sources: "Holly Knight"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( August 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) In 1980, Knight's first big break came when she played keyboards (uncredited) on Kiss' Unmasked album. [3] In the early 1980s, she helped form Spider (featuring Anton Fig of Late Show with David Letterman). Managed by Bill Aucoin ( Kiss and Billy Idol), they signed a recording contract with Dreamland Records, an RSO-distributed label. They released two albums: Spider (self-titled; 1980) and Between the Lines (1981). Asked by an interviewer once why so many of her songs are about fighting or going into battle, Holly, realizing he was right, reflected: “…my songs were more about fighting for something, rather than with someone.” The book is dedicated “to anyone who ever had a dream and was told ‘no.’” And she chose that lyric from “The Warrior” as a title because she's had to fight to make her own way in this world.

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The Best" was featured at the end of Joe Biden's victory speech following his election to the presidency of the United States in 2021. [ citation needed]Full of sex and drugs and so much fun name-dropping, this is a breezy, readable look at an era that simultaneously seems distant and not that long ago. The name dropping isn't terribly gratuitous, in that there really were so many connections among people in the industry, and she clearly explains her relationships to them and each other. Her relationship to three members of KISS was of particular note! Holly Knight - "Heart Don't Fail Me Now"; "Howling at the Moon"; " Love Is a Battlefield"; "Sexy Boy"; "Nature of the Beast" "Palace of Pleasure"; "Howling At The Moon"; "It's Only Me"; "Why Don't You Love Me Like You Used To" Holly Knight’s self titled project is one of my all-time favorite albums so I was looking forward to hearing a bit about it. I was surprised to read that: “If I could find every copy and burn it to the ground I would”. Wow! Tina Turner documentary: A survivor's tale of 'She wanted to just tell it and forget it' Holly Knight says she and Tina Turner were 'very simpatico' The one thing I'll disagree with her about is in regard to her solo CD. I was astounded to read how much she hated it, how much she couldn't see herself as a lead singer and how she wishes she could buy up every copy and destroy them. I loved the album. It was a gem of a find in my trip to Canada. "Baby Me," "Howling at the Moon," even "Sexy Boy" were fantastic pop songs. And I, for one, am glad she didn't give "Heart Don't Fail Me Now" to Darryl Hall.