On this day 25 years ago, Hole’s highly anticipated 3rd album ‘Celebrity Skin’ was released.
This would be Hole’s last studio album with members Courtney Love, Melissa Auf Der Maur, and Eric Erlandson. Patty Schemel did not drum on this album. (This whole story about Patty is a different post for another day.) Courtney went onto to release “Nobody’s Daughter” in 2010 under Hole’s name. But it had no actual members of Hole in that lineup other than Courtney herself.
Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins co-wrote some songs on this album, but not all of them. Most notably he came up with the riff to “Celebrity Skin” and “Malibu” which would go on to be two of Hole’s biggest hits. When The Smashing Pumpkins held a 30 year anniversary show in 2018, Courtney was invited to play with them. They performed “Celebrity Skin” and “Malibu” together. Courtney had told the audience this night that when her and Billy had written Malibu, it was intended to be a song for Stevie Nicks, but she insisted that Billy had made the song so good she decided to keep it for herself. The only other songs Billy co-wrote on this album were Hit So Hard, Dying, and Petals. (Although “Kurt Truthers” would try to tell you otherwise.)
The album was much more clean cut and polished in comparison to Hole’s previous 2 albums. The album was a reflection of Courtney’s sobriety and newly found fame in Hollywood as an actress, and just over all, getting her life back together after the events of 1994. The album has been described as Courtney’s “love letter to Los Angeles.”
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