Ep. 10 - HOLLY KNIGHT ("Love is a Battlefield")
Songcraft: Spotlight on Songwriters
English - May 19, 2015 06:02 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 207 ratingsMusic Arts Performing Arts music interviews songcraft composers lyricists lyrics songs songwriter songwriters songwriting writing Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Holly Knight’s songs have earned three Grammy awards and garnered more than a dozen ASCAP performance awards. She is the writer or co-writer of a seemingly endless list of hits, including “Love is a Battlefield” and “Invincible” for Pat Benetar, “Better Be Good to Me” and “Simply the Best” for Tina Turner, “The Warrior” for Scandal, “Obsession” for Animotion, “Rag Doll” with Aerosmith, “Just Between You and Me” with Lou Gramm, and many more. Additionally, her songs have been recorded by artists as diverse as Bon Jovi, Chaka Khan, Hall & Oates, KISS, Bonnie Tyler, Heart, Ozzy Osbourne, John Waite, Aaron Neville, Dusty Springfield, and the list goes on and on. In 2013, her remarkable songwriting accomplishments earned Knight a well-deserved induction to the prestigious Songwriters Hall of Fame.