As a young girl, Aimee Mann was inspired to play the bass guitar after reading a book (that she later could not remember the title of):
It was this paperback about how to get into the rock ‘n’ roll business. It was fascinating. I didn’t know anything about music then. Out of the blue, I said I wanted to play the bass.
In 1981, she dropped out of Berklee College Of Music to join the punk band The Young Snakes. Two years later she formed the new wave rock band ‘Til Tuesday with boyfriend (and former Berklee classmate) Michael Hausman.