THE VIDEO BELOW IS MY FIRST BAND, SPIDER...WE CUT BETTER BE GOOD TO ME FIRST...AND THEN TINA CUT IT FOR HER PRIVATE DANCER RECORD...I LOVE BOTH VERSIONS
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THIS IS DEVICE, MY SECOND BAND...PERFORMING WHO SAYS .(YUP THAT'S ME) ...OUR VIDEO WAS ON MTV IN HEAVY ROTATION FOR FOUR MONTHS. WE HAD FUN MAKING IT. GENE BLACK ON GUITAR AND PAUL ENGEMAN ,VOCALS
REMEMBER THESE TWO GEMS ? LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD,PAT BENATAR....AND BELOW IS PAT SINGING INVINCIBLE .IT WAS A PRIVILEGE TO WRITE FOR HER .
BELOW IS THE SONG I WROTE WITH LOU GRAMM OF FOREIGNER...CHECK THE VIDEO OUT.I FEEL VERY LUCKY TO HAVE WORKED WITH SUCH AMAZING SINGERS OVER THE YEARS
BELOW IS PLEASURE AND PAIN /PERFORMED BY DIVYNLS.CHRISSY AMPLETT IS TRULY ONE OF THE GREATEST ROCK SINGERS AND SHE HAS NO SHAME !!! I LOVE THAT!! THIS IS ONE MY PERSONAL MOST FAVORITE TUNES THAT I WROTE.
AND NOW PRESENTING ...SIMPLY THE BEST ...TINA TURNER
IF YOU WANT A GOOD LAUGH WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW ...IT'S SOMETHING I DISCOVERED ON YOU TUBE .THE CAPTION SAID THESE WERE POP IDOL LOSERS IN HOLLAND.....ON A SCALE OF ONE TO TEN I GIVE THEM A TEN FOR SHEER NERVE,HA,HA
Influences
Okay let's start at the beginning and move on up: Doors, Stones, Beatles, Zeppelin,Hendrix, Black Sabbath,Bowie,John Lennon,Lou Reed,Iggy,The Tubes,Todd Rundgren, Cheap Trick, Queen, Aerosmith,Prince,The Police,The Pretenders,Eurythmics,U2, Divynls,Nirvana,Nine Inch Nails, Queens Of The Stone Age,Muse,Radiohead Alice In Chains, Three Days Grace, Flyleaf, Tool,John Mayer,Garbage,Veruca Salt, The Vines, Incubus,Beck,Jeff Buckley,Korn, Stained, Marilyn Manson, Puddle Of Mudd, Linkin Park,System Of A Down,
Beethoven,Chopin, Bach,Rachmaninoff,Mozart,Bocceli
...and of course, the biggest influence of all : LIFE :)
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I 'll be featuring and rotating newer songs that I either wrote or cowrote
with various bands. This month's playlist is You're The One by Revelation Theory,Perfectly Flawed by Otep, The Radio, by Porcelain, Wasted
, by The Donnas ,Overated -Less Than Jake and for all the fans who having been asking over
and over...the full length version to the TV show ,Still Standing (You Make
Me Happy), performed by Will Hoge...Feel free to rate the songs or add comments... Enjoy !!! Peace and love, Holly
HOLLY KNIGHT is an accomplished songwriter, producer and musician. She has written hits for some of the biggest artists in rock and roll. Her songs have won three Grammys for best vocal performance in the rock category. She was voted Best Songwriter in Rolling Stones' 11th annual poll, along with such luminaries as Phil Collins, Paul Simon, Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen.
Holly has written an incredible string of hits, starting with Better Be Good To Me, Simply The Best, In Your Wildest Dreams (Tina Turner .. Over the years, Tina has cut eleven of Holly's songs), Love Is A Battlefield, Invincible (Pat Benatar), Never (Heart), Ragdoll (Aerosmith),Love Touch(Rod Stewart),The Warrior (Patty Smyth)...currently featured in the video game,Guitar Heroes/ The 80s, Obsession (Animotion),Just Between You and Me(Lou Gramm),Baby Me (Chaka Khan),Hide Your Heart (Kiss),Stick To your Guns (Bon Jovi) and the list goes on.
Holly has collaborated with many other songwriters, and recording artists over the years. Her bands, Spider and Device, both had top forty hits: Device was on MTV's heavy-rotation playlist for four consecutive months. She has sung and performed on many albums, including backup vocals for Tina Turner, Rod Stewart and Heart. Her songs have been featured in box-office smashes such as Thelma and Louise, Visionquest,Legend Of Billie Jean, Mad Max- Beyond The Thunderdome , Stewart Little II,Thirteen Going On Thirty. What The Bleep, and such hit TV shows as Nip Tuck, The Singing Bee, American Idol, Oprah Winfrey, The Simpsons, Family Guy, and South Park.
Later on, Holly produced and co-wrote the title theme song for the hugely popular cultl TV show called Angel. She also wrote and produced the title theme song for the CBS hit sitcom, Still Standing, which received not only the ASCAP award for recognition as one of the top TV series of 2003, but it also received the same award again in 2004.
Some of the artists that she has written with or for recently are Revelation Theory,Hawk Nelson, The Donnas, Porcelain, Otep, Sick Puppies, Meatloaf, Paul Stanley, Revelation Theory, Leigh Nash, Less Than Jake, Fefe Dobson, Sugababes, Donna Summer and many new and rising artists.
The New York native songwriter started studying classical piano at age four. By the time she reached her teens she was sneaking out of the house at night to see rock bands perform "I loved the outrageous lifestyle and rebelliousness of rock and roll, Holly says... 'My favorite songwriters have always been in bands, because they tend to be more daring and original artistically, edgier. I guess that's why I've always enjoyed working with aggressive, eccentric rock singers, who have no shame. It's certainly kept my life interesting, and I've been lucky to work with some of the best ones."
Holly left home a few weeks shy of her 16th birthday, and by the age of 19 she had signed her first record deal. Her band Spider, was managed by Bill Aucoin (Kiss, Billy Idol), which helped get her first gig as a session player keyboards for the 'Kiss Unmasked' record.
Dreamland, her record company, was run by Mike Chapman, producer of such groups as The Knack, Blondie, and The Sweet and a hit songwriter in his own right. After two albums with Spider, she left the band, and moved out to L.A., at Mike's suggestion, to pursue her songwriting career. She signed with his publishing company, Chinnichap, and later Mike Chapman Publishing, eventually signing a six year co-publishing deal with EMI Publishing...after which she decided it was time to publish herself.
In addition to writing, Holly is actively pursuing her producing career full time. She recently coproduced tracks for Otep and Porcelain. Along with that, she is working on an album with her new band.Keep a lookout for blogs on the progress...There will be several guest musicians involved..s.Holly has a professional Protools HD recording studio in her home. If you would like to learn more, check out her website at .."http://www.hollyknight.com" target="_blank">www.hollyknight.com
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Hey Holly, Nice to hear from you. Doing some tracks for 'Syd Kitchen' from SA. Great finger-picking acoustic stuff. It's for a documentary on him - he's been around for ages back home. What're you up to etc etc. Love, Keith.
Holly; Thanks for the add, I think we met once at Michael's party upstairs where I shared the hanger with Michael and Kenny in the early 90's. I know that was a long time ago but appreciate the add just the same. I write alot of words these days and hope to publish some soon. Sig
For a long time, my role model was Tila Tequila cause I am an Asian. But now I am with you here, I want to follow you. Tila is too young for me. I am 40, I have to think before move.
You've probably already read it at least 10 thousand times before, but you're one of my all time favorite songwriter. As a big fan of Pat Benatar, the first song I loved from you was probably Love Is A Battlefield. I discovered Device just a few years ago, and that was another big love affair. Love your 1st solo album too. Love everything you wrote ;-)
Funny to see that you've worked with Rev Theory, I was just about to decide if I buy their new cd, last week, now I'm gonna buy it for sure !!
HOLLY! Big Fan from the Spider/Device Days! Still get a kick out of playing "hangin on a heartattack" in my P.E. classes when exercising! Got all my old vinyl!
