Table of Contents
Foreword ix
Prologue xi
Chapter 1 My Arrival 1
New York City, 1956
Chapter 2 In Film Noir (Spider) 13
New York City, 1977-1980
Chapter 3 The Demon, the Joker, and the One with the Star on His Eye (KISS) 25
New York City, 1979
Chapter 4 In Fujicolor (Spider) 48
Los Angeles, 1980-1982
Chapter 5 I Want My MTV 68
New York City, 1981
Chapter 6 Learning to Make Paper Airplanes (Pat Benatar) 70
Beverly Hills, 1983
Chapter 7 A Night in Heaven ("Obsession") 81
Los Angeles, 1983
Chapter 8 Bang, Bang, I Am the Warrior (Patty Smyth) 87
Los Angeles, Malibu, 1984
Chapter 9 "We Fell Out" (Divinyls) 93
Los Angeles, 1985
Chapter 10 How I Met the Acid Queen (Tina Turner) 99
Los Angeles, 1985
Chapter 11 Night of the Thirty Toes (Heart) 112
Las Angeles, 1985
Chapter 12 "Well Done, Young Lady!" (Rod Stewart) 127
Los Angeles, 1985
Chapter 13 We Will Be Invincible (Pat Benatar) 147
Los Angeles, 1986
Chapter 14 22B3 (Device) 154
Los Angeles, 1985
Chapter 15 Living In a Haunted House (Elvira, Mistress of the Dark) 162
Los Angeles, 1986
Chapter 16 So You Wanna Be a Cowboy? (Bon Jovi) 167
Los Angeles, 1986
Chapter 17 I Love a Man Who Takes Charge (Don Johnson) 176
Los Angeles, 1987
Chapter 18 We Got a Soul Love (Hall & Oates) 186
New York City & Los Angeles 1987
Chapter 19 Why I Put My Dress on Inside Out (Steven Tyler) 197
Los Angeles & Vancouver, 1987
Chapter 20 Slow Burn (Ozzy Osbourne) 211
Los Angeles, 1988
Chapter 21 Simply the Best (Tina Turner) 219
Los Angeles, 1987-1990
Afterword 235
New York City, 2013
Songs I Wish I Had Written 239
Discography 246
Song Permissions 253
Acknowledgments 256
About the Author 258