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Kathy Valentine Interview: "The Go-Go's Were Very Dysfunctional and Very Toxic". Musician and songwriter Kathy Valentine made music history as a member of the Go-Go’s, 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 ...
- Emotional Reunion
- Mother Valentine’s Day
- For The Record
- Battle of The Bands
- Becoming A No-Go
- By The Book
- No End in Sight
Along with the success, though, there were lawsuits, breakups, financial entanglements, excessive alcohol/drug use and general discord that made them salacious Behind the Music fodder on VH1. And their third album — 1984’s Talk Show — failed to capture the magic of that Beauty and the Beat monster debut in 1981 (with mega-hit “Our Lips Are Sealed”)...
“Pushing myself out to the forefront at 61 is exhilarating and fun and frightening and exciting and really fulfilling,” Valentine says of her latest project. She also admits the experience was cathartic. “Very much so. I’d say it was probably the most intensive and cheapest therapy that I’ve ever had,” Valentine says, laughing. “And there were a lo...
Sharing common interests of artists who were in her book such as punk pioneers X, Phil Seymour (who gave Valentine “my first big break” by including her song “We Don’t Get Along” on his solo debut album) and the Tourists’ Dave Stewart and his musical partner billed as “Ann” Lennox before Eurythmics, Valentine mentioned that the Textones once opened...
Female singer-songwriters of groups from another generation are showing some love for current projects by a grateful Valentine and the Go-Go’s. Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna appeared in the documentary and Throwing Muses’ Tanya Donnelly and the Breeders’ Kelley Deal are planning to participate in the book tour. When going back to the ’80s, though, V...
As thorough and colorful as the passages in her book, Valentine covered a lot of ground during this lengthy interview, even while cleaning up in the backyard at one point. (“I’m a multitasker,” she boasts.) The Go-Go’s didn’t even come up during the first 20 minutes until Valentine was asked about contacting all of the book’s primary subjects befor...
Choosing then to look on the bright side, Valentine enjoyed spending time at home with Audrey and, while taking college classes, started thinking about writing a memoir around 2013-14. On a panel at the Texas Book Festival, she was approached by Gianna LaMorte from UT Press, and a deal was eventually done. Knowing it was “a big endeavor,” Valentine...
Even if the Go-Go’s can no longer be that, sustaining a relationship with her bandmates is the hope for Valentine, who concludes the book’s epilogue with three words: “Not the end.” “I do have another memoir in me. Yeah, there’s a lot more story to tell,” promises Valentine, who as a teenager left Greenbriar Community School in Bastrop, Texas, to a...
Aug 14, 2024 · The Go-Go's were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2021, just a year after Kathy Valentine released her memoir, All I Ever Wanted, which chronicles the band's wild journey. Guitar World 's full interview with Kathy Valentine will be published later this month.
Mar 23, 2020 · “The live Go-Go’s sounded raucous, full of attitude and energy, not wimpy and clean like this,” Kathy Valentine writes in her new memoir, All I Ever Wanted, which will be released on March 31 st. “We put our trust in Richard [Gottehrer, the album’s producer] and then he had gone and turned us into a ‘60’s lightweight watered-down ...
May 3, 2023 · Kathy Valentine Season 10 Episode 25 | 26m 46s | Video has closed captioning. Known for being part of the all-female band the Go-Go’s, she wrote or co-wrote many of the band’s most renowned...
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May 28, 2020 · Ahead of her virtual book event at ONCE this Sunday, Valentine talks about the art of memoir writing, visibility for women in music, and honoring rock's early icons that are all too often...
Musician and songwriter Kathy Valentine discusses her widely acclaimed memoir All I Ever Wanted: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir. Valentine tells her story and experiences that took her from her...
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