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Distinguish|Patti SmithBLP sources|date=October 2009Infobox musical artist| name = Patty Smyth| image = Patty Smyth 2011 Shankbone.JPG| caption = Smyth at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair party| image_size =| background = solo_singer| birth_date = birth date and age|1957|6|26|birth_place = New York City , New York , United States | instrument = Vocals| genre = Rock music|Rock | years_active = 1981present| label = Columbia Records|Columbia , MCA Records|MCA | associated_acts = Scandal (American band)|Scandal , Don Henley | website = Patty Smyth (born June 26, 1957) is an American rock and roll musician. She first enjoyed mainstream success in 1982 as lead singing|singer of the band Scandal (American band)|Scandal and later scored a solo #2 hit with her song " Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough ". She is currently married to tennis star John McEnroe .
Musical career
With Scandal
After growing up in the Brooklyn neighborhood Gerritsen Beach , Smyth joined Scandal as vocalist in 1981 . The band released a self-titled debut album the next year. Featuring the song " Goodbye to You (Scandal song)|Goodbye to You ", it went on to become Columbia Records ' biggest selling Gramophone record|EP . In 1984, they put out their follow-up, The Warrior (Scandal album)|The Warrior . Buoyed by MTV airplay, the album peaked at #17 on the charts, and the first song off the release, also titled " The Warrior (song)|The Warrior ", was a top-ten smash. However, despite their success, internal strife within the group led to their breakup shortly afterwards.
Solo career
Following the end of Scandal, Smyth was asked by friend Eddie Van Halen to join the band Van Halen to replace David Lee Roth as lead singer. However, she declined the offer. http://blogs.tampabay.com/80s/2006/09/patty_smyth_sti.html Stuck in the '80s | tampabay.com: Archives She guest-appeared on The Hooters 1985 album Nervous Night (album)|Nervous Night on the song "Where Do the Children Go" as an accompanying vocalist.
Smyth released her first solo album, Never Enough (Patty Smyth album)|Never Enough , in 1987. It contained her version of the Tom Waits song " Downtown Train ," which Rod Stewart would make a hit several years later, and the title track "Never Enough," which was co-written with members of the Hooters and based on a song of the same title that Hooters members Eric Bazilian and Rob Hyman had written for their earlier band, Baby Grand. She put out another solo effort in 1992, the self-titled Patty Smyth (album)|Patty Smyth . Off of that effort, she secured a hit gramophone record|record via a duet (music)|duet with Don Henley of Eagles (band)|The Eagles ; " Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough " peaked at number 2 in the Billboard Hot 100 , and was certified music recording sales certification|gold for sales of 500,000. The album, also certified gold, featured an additional US Top 40 hit with "No Mistakes" and also spawned the minor hit "I Should Be Laughing". Smyth 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 (album)|The End of the Innocence .
Smyth subsequently co-wrote the 1994 song "Look What Love Has Done", nominated for a Grammy Award|Grammy and an Academy Award after its inclusion in the soundtrack to the feature film Junior (film)|Junior . Further soundtrack commissions resulted in her penning the theme tune , "Wish I Were You", to the 1998 feature film Armageddon (1998 film)|Armageddon . (Her husband, John McEnroe, claimed in his autobiographyMcEnroe, J., & Kaplan, J. (2003). You Cannot Be Serious, Berkley Trade, ISBN 978-0-425-19008-1 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.)
Reunited with Scandal
In 2004, VH1 recruited Smyth and the surviving members of Scandal for a Bands Reunited episode, resulting in a small reunion tour of concerts on the United States East Coast in 2005. The next year, Columbia/Legacy released a new Scandal compilation album|compilation Compact Disc|CD as part of the ''We Are The 80's'' series. The compilation contained three unreleased tracks from the 1982 recording sessions ("Grow So Wise", "If You Love Me", "I'm Here Tonight") as well as "All My Life", previously available on the A-side and B-side|flip side of "Goodbye To You". In July 2008, Billboard (magazine)|Billboard reported the upcoming release of new music by the bandcite web|author=Up for Discussion |url= http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp? vnu_content_id=1003826012& inp=true |title=Patty Smyth, Scandal To Reunite, Record |publisher=Billboard.com |date= |accessdate=2012-04-25 (featuring original members KeithMack and Benjy King). They debuted their first single as a band ("Hard For You To Love Me", also referred to as "Make It Hard") in over 24 years on January 17, 2009 in Ridgefield, Connecticut .
Personal life
Smyth dated punk rock|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 currently live in New York City and have six children between them. Sean, Kevin, and Emily are children from McEnroe's previous marriage to Tatum O'Neal . Ruby is from her relationship with Hell, and Smyth and McEnroe's daughters in common are Anna and Ava.
She is a fan of the TV series Aqua Teen Hunger Force ,Citation needed|date=February 2012 and has been featured as a DVD commentator for the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie.
Discography
Albums
Never Enough (Patty Smyth album)|Never Enough (1987) #66 U.S.
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