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Patty Smyth (born
26 June 1957,
New York City) first enjoyed mainstream success in 1982 as lead
singer of the
band Scandal. That band's self-titled debut release became
Columbia Records' biggest selling
EP.
Solo Career
In the mid 1980s, Smyth became friends with
Valerie Bertinelli and her then husband,
Eddie Van Halen. When
David Lee Roth left the band
Van Halen, Eddie Van Halen invited Smyth to replace Roth as the band's lead singer. Smyth declined the offer.
Smyth dated
punk musician Richard Hell for two years; their
daughter, Ruby, was born in 1985. In April 1997, Smyth married former
tennis star
John McEnroe. They presently live in New York City and have six kids between them (three from his previous marriage to
Tatum O'Neal, one from her previous relationship and two together, daughters Anna and Ava).
Following two solo albums in 1987 and 1992, she secured a further hit
record via a
duet with
Don Henley of
The Eagles; "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough" peaked at number 2 in the
Billboard Hot 100, and went
gold. Its parent album,
Patty Smyth, also went gold and featured an additional
Top 40 hit with "No Mistakes", as well as "I Should Be Laughing", a minor hit. She had previously recorded with Henley as a
backing singer on several
songs on his
albums
Building The Perfect Beast and
The End of the Innocence.
She subsequently co-wrote the 1994
song "Look What Love Has Done", nominated for a
Grammy and an
Academy Award after its inclusion in the
soundtrack to the
film Junior. Further soundtrack commissions resulted in her penning the
theme tune, "Wish I Were You", to the 1998
movie Armageddon. (Smyth's husband,
John McEnroe, claims in his autobiography that she was inspired to write the song by his own attempt at a musical career: she was struck by his excitement at playing music, when her feelings about the music industry were far more ambivalent.)
As a result of her renewed popularity, Columbia issued a retrospective album,
Greatest Hits - Featuring Scandal. Two new songs were released on the anthology, including "Carnival Lights". The song, co-written with Bob Thiele Jr., concerned her mother Betty Smyth's years as a
trapeze artist. Smyth set out to promote the album on an acoustic tour, employing ex-Bullet Lavolta
guitarist Duke Roth as her
sideman.
In 2004,
VH1 recruited the surviving members of Scandal for a
Bands Reunited episode resulting in a small reunion tour in 2005. In 2006, Columbia/Legacy released a new Scandal
compilation CD as part of the
We Are The 80's series. The new compilation contained three unreleased tracks from the 1982 recording sessions ("Grow So Wise", "If You Leave Me", "I'm Here Tonight") as well as "All My Life", previously available on the
flip side of "Goodbye To You", perennially one of her more popular songs.
Albums
- Never Enough (1987) #66 U.S.
- Patty Smyth (1992) #47 U.S.
- Greatest Hits – Featuring Scandal (1998)
Singles
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