I Am the Warrior: My Crazy Life Writing the Hits and Rocking the MTV Eighties

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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. I’m a child of the 80’s so hearing about how some of the classic songs of that time were written and pitched was so interesting. Holly Knight’s singular music career included crafting a good part of the soundtrack to the MTV 80s 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. I'm also a huge Mike Chapman fan (her songwriting partner for a time and one of my favorite music producers).

I Am the Warrior: My Crazy Life Writing the Hits and Rocking

And when the video for Device’s “Hanging on a Heart Attack” debuted on MTV, I recognized her to my delight. Season 4, Episode 6 "Open Mic": Patrick performs an acoustic version of the song (arranged by actor Noah Reid).Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful.

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Writing songs for Turner “always came from a place of strength and being fierce and just true to oneself. Although Spider and Device both had Top 40 hits, only Device received heavy-rotation on MTV for four consecutive months.S. hit " Better Be Good to Me" (1984) by Tina Turner and " Love Is a Battlefield" (1983) by Pat Benatar, each of which won a Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. I Am the Warrior takes readers on a wild ride through the eighties world of rock 'n' roll from a strong female's perspective.