Hanging On a Heart Attack: Holly Knight's Device and the Album That Was Almost the One She Wanted
In 1986, one of the most accomplished songwriters of the MTV era assembled a band as her own creative vehicle, recruited a Mormon ex-missionary as lead vocalist, made a record at Cherokee Studios with Mike Chapman producing, watched the lead single reach number 35 on the Hot 100, and lost the project before the second single had finished its commercial cycle. A look at Device's 22B3 — the album where Holly Knight tried to be the artist rather than the writer, and the structural reasons the attempt did not produce the second album she had assumed would follow.
By Deep Cuts · Issue 05 · · 22 min read