Widely believed at the period to develop been a novelty act formed by producer Kim Fowley, who thought a notion of 5 teenaged girls dressed around leather and lingerie performing heavy metal music was extremely marketable, a band freed its eponymic 1st album within 1976. A band's lineup was: Cherie Currie, lead vocals and keyboards Joan Jett, rhythm guitar and vocals Lita Ford, lead guitar Jackie Hound, bass guitar and vocals Sandy West, drums and vocals

Despite a apparent "jailbait on the run" gimmick, a girls in the b& were expert at swimming their instruments and wrote or even co-wrote virtually all of the band's poop &, when late became perceptible, were good all about their music. Their better known song is "Cherry Bomb", which has been covered by numbers of more elastic, including a Riot grrrl band Bratmobile.

A Runaways mass produced 5 albums & went across many personnel changes. Michael Steele, was briefly part of the b& prior to their 1st album, and late joined The Bangles. Around 1977 Vicki Blue replaced Jackie Fox in bass guitar and Joan Jett took over when lead singer when a departure of Cherie Currie. Within 1978 Laurie McAllister replaced Vicki Blue. A band broke higher within 1979.

Jett & Ford each went in to achieve material profits when solo creative person in the 1980s. Currie went inside to the briefly successful career as an actress, appearing in Foxes with Jodie Foster, before falling into heavily drug utilize. She late recovered & wrote an autobiography, Neon Angel. West continued using music, every now and again swimming sustaining her previous bandmates. Wild dog attend UCLA and Harvard Law School and became an entertainment attorney.

There was a few talk about a Runaways reunion towards the prevent of the Nineties, however nothing happened. Currie did joaround Jett onstage in 2001 to sing "Cherry Bomb", a foremost period it got performed together around about Twenty-five years.

Within 2004 Vicki Blue directed the feature-length docudrama known as "Edgeplay - A Film About The Runaways". A film includes interviews by having virtually all of the band members too when producer Kim Fowley. A Runaways paved a way for female orientated punk elastic prefer X-Ray Spex, Bikini Kill and most recently, The Donnas.

Discography
Studio Albums The Runaways, 1976 Queens of Noise, 1977 Waiting for the Night, 1977 And Now... The Runaways, 1978

Survive Albums Live in Japan, 1977

External references
[http://www.therunaways.com Official website] [http://www.therunaways.com/newsite/bio.shtml Full band history]

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