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“Without your mother, none of this would have happened.” Olivia Rodrigo’s backstage tribute to a ’90s rock hero left her daughter in tears
Former Hole bassist Melissa Auf der Maur recalls the emotional moment when Rodrigo acknowledged the women who shaped her sound
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Pop queen Olivia Rodrigo is helping inspire a new generation of fans — particularly women — to pick up the guitar.
But Rodrigo — whose guitar-driven anthems have earned her three number-one singles, topping the Billboard charts for a combined 11 weeks — has always worn her influences on her sleeve. One young fan, the daughter of one of those very influences, learned that in the most heartwarming way.
Olivia Rodrigo Told Melissa Auf der Maur's Daughter She Owes Career to Hole
The musician and author said the direct connection between the Courtney Love-fronted band and Rodrigo is obvious to her.
As far as Olivia Rodrigo is concerned, if it wasn’t for former Hole bassist Melissa Auf der Maur she wouldn’t be the superstar she is today. In an interview with NME for the British magazine’s Does Rock N’ Roll Kill Braincells?! series, Auf Der Maur was asked if she could see Hole’s influence on the music of today, and she shared a life-affirming moment she had with the “Vampire” singer.
“When I got my daughter tickets to see Olivia Rodrigo for her 13th birthday, we got invited backstage,” said Auf der Maur, who played bass in Hole from 1994-1999 and recently released her rock ‘n’ roll memoir, Even the Good Girls Will Cry. “Olivia Rodrigo said to my daughter: ‘Without your mother, none of this would have happened’. That’s when it locked in for me that there are direct correlations.”
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Melissa Auf der Maur, former bassist of Hole and Smashing Pumpkins, details time in Chicago in new book
A self-portrait of Melissa Auf der Maur taken at Chelsea Hotel in New York City in 2001. An erstwhile photographer, she would shoot one roll of film each day, with many of the candid images included in her new book, “Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A ‘90s Rock Memoir.”
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A beer bottle, a brazen drunk act and Billy Corgan forever changed Melissa Auf der Maur’s life.
“I would never have believed it then if you’d told me that, one day, Billy would have more influence on my life than anyone other than my parents,” she writes in her book, “Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A ‘90s Rock Memoir,” released March 17 (hers and Corgan’s shared birthday).
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