But you know, I'm fine with hard music. It's just that I think Lita and Sandy wanted to go in that direction much more than I did. I forget what his credits are, but he had worked with some hard bands, some heavy bands, I believe. And I think he was sort of perpetuating it, egging it on a little bit. But I don't know that. I wanted to play heavy metal and Joan wanted to play - well, her first hit was 'I love Rock n Roll', which was very pop rock and it took off and did great; whereas I released 'Out for Blood'.
We were going in different musical directions. Read the complete interview here. Doesn't matter how old you are or what you do for a living, there is something in this clothing line for everyone," says Lita. More items added soon.
I survived when I shouldn't have. This man had told me he had killed six women. Although Cherie Currie quit The Runaways in , she was still under contract to Kim Fowley and was obligated to work with him for one more album.
She ended up making her first solo album, Beauty's Only Skin Deep. In an interview with OC Weekly , Currie said that the album was slapped together within two weeks and referred to her solo debut as "the worst album that was recorded in history. But after that, Currie was no longer forced to work with Fowley. Later, in , Cherie and her twin, sister, Marie, made a record together, Messin' With The Boys — Currie has referred to as "a mistake. My sister was having problems working at Pup 'N' Taco and I felt obligated to do that.
My sister thought she wanted to be in the music business, but when she was in it, she didn't want it anymore. When she walked away from the record deal and then they dropped me, she went off in her married life and had kids. I could hardly live with what I had done, and I let the drugs take over. I was very upset that I let myself do that record. At that time, I thought it had ruined my career and my drug addiction got worse and worse.
The Runaways' lead guitarist, Lita Ford, wasn't without her own personal problems, either. At one point, she was married to Nitro lead vocalist, Jim Gillette — they married in after knowing each other for two weeks.
Ford and Gillette later had a highly contentious divorce in — with Gillette getting full custody of their two sons. Although Gillette publicly stated that Ford was allowed supervised visitation, Ford apparently didn't see her sons again for almost a decade.
When asked in interviews about the custody arrangement and subsequent absence from her children's lives, Ford responded , "By the time our divorce was final and everything was said and done, it was such a joke that it didn't matter what I got on paper. There was no way I was gonna be in those boys' lives. They were such a mess by the time I left and my ex-husband left that it just didn't matter.
I just needed to walk away from everything and regroup and come back with Plan B. The big problem for me was I couldn't find them after hiring four or five private investigators and them being out of the country in a Caribbean island. The boys were around 17 and 21 when Ford finally saw them again in person. Evidently, the meeting did not go particularly well, and Ford's sons continue to avoid seeing her. Ford claims her ex-husband turned her sons against her and responded in by creating a Parental Alienation Awareness Facebook page.
Sadly, The Runaways' drummer, Sandy West, died at the early age of 47 in She had been suffering from lung cancer. A California girl at heart, West grew up in Huntington Beach and split time between her main hobbies, skiing and surfing.
It wasn't until her grandfather gifted the young West with her first drum set that she discovered her raw gift as a formidable musician. In her post-Runaways' life, as noted by The Guardian , West never achieved the same level of fame that her former bandmates had, but she never lost her passion for drumming. Even as she went on to work in construction, West continued to play in her own band, The Sandy West Band, and would occasionally perform with former Runaways bandmate, Cherie Currie.
In an official statement, Joan Jett came out and expressed her sadness over her old friend's passing. Sandy was an exuberant and powerful drummer. I am overcome from the loss of my friend. I always told her we changed the world. Cherie Currie likewise put out a statement, grieving West's death. It will never be the same for me again to step on a stage, because Sandy West was the best and I will miss her forever.
The Runaways'. But we just decided to sort of part ways. I'm sure none of us wanted to We all got along fine, so there wasn't anything like that. It was not a personality thing. We just grew in different directions.
I just thought, 'I don't wanna get fired from a band I started. Let's just part ways. It was in California. Either San Francisco or L. I think we had decided that was going to be it.
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