Even the Good Girls Will Cry

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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

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781805466383
Published: March 2026

Number of pages: 432
Width: 156 mm
Height: 234 mm
Depth: not specified

Publisher: Atlantic Books