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Holly Knight is a songwriter, vocalist and musician, who has written some of the biggest hits in pop and rock music. She was voted Best Songwriter in the 11th annual Rolling Stone songwriters poll.

She was born in New York and started playing classical piano as a young child. She soon became interested in rock music, and left home at about sixteen to pursue her dreams. Five years later, in the early 1980s, her band Spider got a record deal with Dreamland Records , released Spider: Between the Lines and was managed by Bill Aucoin of KISS and Billy Idol fame. She had a second band called Device in the mid-1980s, who had a hit with "Hanging On A Heart Attack" off the 22B3 album.



The Dreamland president, songwriter and producer Mike Chapman, urged her to leave the band and go to Los Angeles to pursue her songwriting career. She worked for his publishing company and then for EMI Publishing for many years.

Knight and Chapman worked together on "Better Be Good To Me" and "Love Is a Battlefield", each of which won a Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. On her own and in collaboration with others, Knight wrote songs for Heart, Aerosmith, Rod Stewart, and many more.

In recent years, Knight co-wrote (with Cami Elen and Jymm Thomas) the theme song for the popular Joss Whedon television show Angel (it is performed by Darling Violetta). She also wrote and produced the title theme for the sitcom Still Standing, and has been continuing to pursue a career as a record producer. Recently she was sampled by dance producers Scooter for a remix of her 1988 song "Howling at the Moon".

She currently resides with her two sons in Pacific Palisades.

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Owner Jann Wenner
Publisher Wenner Publishing
Editor Jann Wenner
Will Dana
Founded 1967
Language English
Headquarters New York City, NY
Circulation 1.2 to 1.
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State of New York

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Nickname(s): The Empire State
Motto(s): Excelsior!

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Capital Albany
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Spider was a rock group from New York City. They released two albums on Dreamland Records early in the 1980s and scored several hits on the US.

Members

  • Amanda Blue - vocals
  • Keith Lentin - guitar
  • Holly Knight - keyboards (later joined Device)

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William 'Gui' Aucoin (also known as Bill Aucoin) is a band manager that has managed several successful bands during the course of his career. He is known to have discovered Kiss and he then worked with them for the next 8 years; even owning a merchandising company, Niocua,
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Billy Idol (born William Michael Albert Broad, 30 November 1955 in Middlesex) is an English rock musician.

He first achieved fame in the punk rock era as a member of the band Generation X.
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Device was a short-lived pop-rock trio formed by keyboardist/bassist Holly Knight, vocalist Paul Engemann and guitarist Gene Black. Their only album, 22B3,was released in the spring of 1986. It produced a Top 40 single in the U.S.
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Released 1983
Format 7", 12"
Recorded 1983
Genre New Wave
Label Chrysalis Records
Writer(s) Pat Benatar
Producer(s) Neil Gerlardo
Peter Coleman
Peak chart positions
  • #1 (Australia)
  • #5 (US)

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The Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance has been awarded since 1980. From 1980 to 1993 the award was known as the Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female.
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Joss Hill Whedon (born Joseph Hill Whedon[1] on June 23, 1964 in New York) is an Academy Award-nominated American writer, director, executive producer, and creator/Head Writer of the well-known television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel
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Angel is a spin-off of the American television series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The atmosphere of the show was darker, and at times it performed better in the U.S. Nielsen Ratings than its parent series.
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Darling Violetta is a dark pop band based in Hollywood, California. Their name is taken from the salutation used by Bela Lugosi in letters to his mistress. The band released their first EP Bath-Water-Flowers
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Still Standing is an American comedy television series. It debuted on CBS on September 30, 2002, and ended March 8, 2006. Lifetime obtained the U.S. syndication rights to the show in February 2005 and now airs every weekday on Lifetime and in syndication on cable networks
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In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering
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Pacific Palisades is a district within the U.S. city of Los Angeles, California, located between Brentwood to the east, Malibu to the west, Santa Monica to the southeast, the Santa Monica Bay to the southwest, and the
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Aerosmith is a prominent American hard rock band, regarded by some as "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band".[1][2][3]

Although they are known as "the bad boys from Boston"[4]
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'Permanent Vacation'
Released 1988
Format Cassette, CD, Record
Recorded 1987
Genre Hard Rock
Length 04:24
Label Geffen
Writer(s) Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Jim Vallance, Holly Knight
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Angel is a spin-off of the American television series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The atmosphere of the show was darker, and at times it performed better in the U.S. Nielsen Ratings than its parent series.
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Animotion is a 1980s U.S. New Wave/synthpop band best known for their songs "Obsession" (originally written by Michael Des Barres and Holly Knight), "Let Him Go", "I Engineer" and "Room to Move".
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Released 1985
Format 7"
Genre New Wave, synth-dance
Length 3:11–6:18
Label Mercury
Writer(s) Holly Knight/Michael Des Barres
Producer(s) John Ryan
Peak chart positions
  • 6 (U.S.)
  • 5 (U.K.

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Michael Des Barres

Born January 24 1948 (1948--) (age 59)
London, England, UK

Spouse(s) Pamela Des Barres
(1977 - 1991)
Wendy Hamilton
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Jimmy Barnes is a popular Australian rock singer. He was born James Dixon Swan on April 28, 1956 in Glasgow, Scotland. His father Jim Swan was a prizefighter and his older brother John Swan is also a rock singer.
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Pat Benatar (born Patricia Mae Andrzejewski on January 10, 1953) is an influential four-time Grammy Award-winning American rock singer with many million and multi-million selling records worldwide.
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Cheap Trick is an American rock band from Rockford, Illinois, that gained popularity in the late 1970s. The band consists of Robin Zander (vocals, guitar), Rick Nielsen (guitar, vocals), Tom Petersson (bass guitar, vocals), and Bun E. Carlos (drums, percussion).
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