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All I Ever Wanted
Author: Kathy Valentine
Narrator: Kathy Valentine
Unabridged: 9 hr 38 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Published: 04/07/2020
Category: Music - Individual Composer & Musician
Synopsis
At twenty-one, Kathy Valentine was at the Whisky in Los Angeles when she met a guitarist from a fledgling band called the Go-Goâsâand the band needed a bassist. The Go-Goâs 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 âWe Got the Beatâ and âOur Lips Are Sealed.â 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 dreamâbut itâs only part of her story. All I Ever Wanted traces the path that took her from her childhood in Texasâwhere she all but raised herselfâto the height of rock nâ 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 alcoholâand the music that saved her every step of the way. Populated with vivid portraits of Valentineâs 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.