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Even the Good Girls Will Cry
My 90s Rock Memoir
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Thanks to a thrown beer bottle and a fan letter to a P.O. box, Melissa Auf der Maur's first band scored an opening slot for the Smashing Pumpkins in her bohemian home town, Montreal. Sensing Melissa's talent, Billy Corgan recommended her to Courtney Love. Whisked from...
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A remarkably open-hearted, clear-eyed memoir of the '90s alternative era by the bassist of Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins.
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Thanks to a thrown beer bottle and a fan letter to a P.O. box, Melissa Auf der Maur's first band scored an opening slot for the Smashing Pumpkins in her bohemian home town, Montreal. Sensing Melissa's talent, Billy Corgan recommended her to Courtney Love. Whisked from her local scene, Melissa joined Hole just after the deaths of Kurt Cobain and Hole's prior bassist, Kristen Pfaff, with the just-widowed Courtney Love at the centre of it all.
That was only the beginning of Melissa's journey through alternative rock, a trip she undertook alongside 90s luminaries including Rufus Wainwright, Michael Stipe and her former boyfriend, Dave Grohl. Even the Good Girls Will Cry is a vivid dispatch from the last analogue decade, capturing that bygone era in all its messy, angsty glory.
'Our '90s fever dreams were beautiful but they were also brutal and only the good girls, like Melissa, have the guts to tell you that' - SHIRLEY MANSON
'intimate, poetic look at the sounds that defined a generation' - WALTON GOGGINS
'Fearless, loyal and radically alive' - NATASHA LYONNE
'Melissa shows us the female experience of rock and roll' - MARTHA WAINWRIGHT
That was only the beginning of Melissa's journey through alternative rock, a trip she undertook alongside 90s luminaries including Rufus Wainwright, Michael Stipe and her former boyfriend, Dave Grohl. Even the Good Girls Will Cry is a vivid dispatch from the last analogue decade, capturing that bygone era in all its messy, angsty glory.
'Our '90s fever dreams were beautiful but they were also brutal and only the good girls, like Melissa, have the guts to tell you that' - SHIRLEY MANSON
'intimate, poetic look at the sounds that defined a generation' - WALTON GOGGINS
'Fearless, loyal and radically alive' - NATASHA LYONNE
'Melissa shows us the female experience of rock and roll' - MARTHA WAINWRIGHT
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781805466383
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Book cover type: Paperback
Genre: Biography, Music
Language version: ENG- English
Target audience: Adults
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 19 March 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Atlantic Books
Edition: Export/Airside
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 432
About the Author
Melissa Auf der Maur is a critically acclaimed singer-songwriter, best known as the former bassist of rock bands Hole and the Smashing Pumpkins. In 2007, VH1 included her as #68 on the list of '100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll.' She is also the co-creative director and owner of Basilica Hudson, a performance centre in Hudson, NY, where she lives.
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