Book description
Runner-up, Carr P. Collins Award for Best Book of Non-Fiction, 2021
Go-Go's bassist Kathy Valentine's story is a roller coaster of sex, drugs, and of course, music; it's also a story of what it takes to find success and find yourself, even when it all comes crashing down.
At twenty-one,…
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The Go-Gos were one of the first bands I really got into as a kid and it’s fascinating to read bassist Kathy Valentine’s no holds barred look at the band’s beginnings and how the world of rock and roll treated women. I’ve read she had Patti Smith’s Just Kids on her writing desk as her north star while writing this book and it shows. She writes with warmth and honesty and isn’t afraid to talk about the bad things alongside the good.
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