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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Hey everybody !... just to let you know, 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,
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 music. 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....voted by the READERS ...yeah !!
Holly has written an incredible string of hits, starting with Change (John Waite) 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) currently featured in the new Gtr Heroes/ Aerosmith version.,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, but we wouldn't wanna bore you.
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.
In 2002, Holly produced and co-wrote the title theme song for the hugely popular cult TV show called Angel....you know, the one about the vampire ? 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. Woohhoo!
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, Porcelain and Fefe Dobson, as well as the tv themes to Angel(remember the Vampire ?) and Still Standing. .Holly has a professional Protools HD recording studio in her home. If you would like to learn more, check out her website at www.hollyknight.com
Management :
Alia Fahlborg, Nettwerk Management http://www.nettwerk.com/management/producers.jsp
www.nettwerk.comFor marketing and synch licensing of the Holly Knight Music Catalogue contact: Primary Wave Music
275 Madison Ave,
Suite 1905, NY, NY 10016
ph 212.661.6990 fax 212.661.8890
lmestel@primarywavemusic.com primarywavemusic.com
The new Candy Apple Blue song is being compared to The Bee Gees and The Pet Shop Boys... our music critics are calling our latest offering our best yet! Still we are no DEVICE! My all time favorite band.... Anyway... Check it out here: http://candyappleblue.bandcamp.com
Holly, Be on the lookout for our new electronic techno colored pop song... Classic Thiller! True it will be no "Warrior" but you actually might like this one!
The music player on my page is loaded with KISS and KISS-related tunes. Any guesses which one from Paul's album is in there? I think you're familiar with that one. It was my favorite song on the album.
