All I Ever Wanted
University of Texas Press
March 2020
Kathy Valentine left her childhood home in Austin, Texas, to seek fame and fortune as a rock ‘n’ roll star, and struck solid gold after she joined the all-female Go-Go’s as a full-time member in January 1981.
By the time she moved back to Texas’s capital city in 2006, Valentine was the 47-year-old mother of a three-year-old daughter. By then having experienced enough sex, drugs, booze, and rock ‘n’ roll to last a century, the recovering alcoholic, 17 years into her sobriety, went on to embrace a calmer but richer lifestyle with what she calls her “real” family.