Holly Knight

Holly Knight 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 16 years old to pursue her dreams. Five years later, her band Spider got a recording contract with Dreamland Records, and released two albums - Spider (1980) and Between the Lines (1981) and was managed by Bill Aucoin of KISS and Billy Idol fame.

Her second band Device had two hit singles in 1986 with "Hanging on a Heart Attack" and "Who Says" off their 22B3 album. Mike Chapman, songwriter, producer, and president of Dreamland Records urged Holly 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 Top 5 U.S. hit "Better Be Good To Me" [Tina Turner] and "Love Is a Battlefield" [Pat Benatar], each of which won a Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. She also co wrote the highly successful #1 single "The Best" [Bonnie Tyler, Tina Turner]. Knight wrote or co-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"

Here is a list of songs she wrote:

Holly Knight - "Heart Don't Fail Me Now"  "Howling at the Moon"  "Love Is a Battlefield"

Device - "Hanging On a Heart Attack" "Who Says"

Chaka Khan - "Baby Me"

Spider - "New Romance (It's a Mystery)" "Change"

Less Than Jake - "Overrated (Everything Is)"

Tina Turner - "Better Be Good to Me" "One Of the Living" "The Best" "You Can't Stop Me Loving You" "Be Tender With Me Baby" "Ask Me How I Feel" "Love Thing" "In Your Wildest Dreams" "Do Something"

Sheila; Rachel Sweet - "Little Darlin'"

Scandal featuring Patty Smyth - "The Warrior" "Hands Tied"

OTEP - "Perfectly Flawed" "UR A WMN NOW"

Ozzy Osbourne - "Slow Burn"

Aaron Neville - "Try a Little Harder"

Bonnie Tyler - "Hide Your Heart" "The Best" "Where Were You"

Dusty Springfield - "Time Waits for No One"

Rod Stewart - "Love Touch (Theme from Legal Eagles)"

Meat Loaf - "Monstro" "Alive"

KISS - "Hide Your Heart" "I Pledge Allegiance To the State Of Rock and Roll" "Raise Your Glasses" Paul Stanley - "It's Not Me" Ace Frehley - "Hide Your Heart"

Elvira - "Here Comes the Bride (Of Frankenstein)" "Haunted House"

Heart - "Never" "All Eyes" "There's the Girl" "Tall, Dark, Handsome Stranger" "I Love You"

Aerosmith - "Rag Doll"

Grayson Hugh - "Can't Untie You From Me" "Don't Look Back" "Road To Freedom"

Lou Gramm - "Just Between You and Me"

Agnetha Fältskog - "Wrap Your Arms Around Me"

Donnas - "Wasted" "Here For the Party"

Divinyls - "Pleasure and Pain"

Lita Ford - "Stiletto"

Daryl Hall & John Oates - "Soul Love"

Marilyn Martin - "Turn It On"

Suzi Quatro - "Fear Of the Unknown"

Elaine Paige - "Well Almost"

Charlie Sexton - "Space"

Riff - "My Heart Is Failing"

Animotion - "Obsession" (with Michael Des Barres) "I Engineer" (with Bernie Taupin)

Shawn Colvin - "Hold On To the Good Things"

Bon Jovi - "Stick To Your Guns"

Chris Max - "I Burn for You"

Suzie McNeil - "Help Me Out"

Kids Incorporated - "Change"

Kidd Video - "When the Phone Stops Ringing"

Kim Wilde - "Turn It On"

Jimmy Barnes - "Between Two Fires"

Fefe Dobson - "Get Over Me"

Cheap Trick - "Space"

Eighth Wonder - "When the Phone Stops Ringing"

Hawk Nelson - "Not The Same"

Leigh Nash - "Angel Tonight"

John Waite - "Change"

Pat Benatar - "Love Is a Battlefield" "Invincible" "Sometimes the Good Guys Finish First" "Girl"