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Even the Good Girls Will Cry

Melissa Auf der Maur
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Billy Corgan
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coming of age
Courtney Love
Dave Grohl
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grunge
Hole
Just Kids
Kurt Cobain
Live Through This
Los Angeles
Montreal
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rock
Rufus Wainwright
Seattle
Smashing Pumpkins
tour
touring band
woman in a man's world

Product details

  • ISBN 9781805461012
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 19 Mar 2026
  • Publisher: Atlantic Books
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

'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

'As if through the lens of her camera, Melissa shows us a female experience of rock and roll' Martha Wainwright

'Intimate, poetic' Walton Goggins

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.
About Melissa Auf der Maur
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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