SickOfSarah - This One's for You - The Runaways Sick of Sarah's post awhile ago about what a rock-n-roll godess Joan Jett is, brought me back to my senior year of high school, 1977, and discovering the Runaways, a teenage all girl band who knew how to do raunchy rock and roll, Joan, at age 15, was a founding member of this band. I found them via their THIRD album, Waitin' for the Night. I lo...
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Today Sandy West, drummer for the rock band the Runaways died today just weeks after the closing of NYC's CBGBs where she sat behind the drum kit with her all-female rock outfit, the Runaways which was also comprised of Cherrie Currie (vocals), Lita Ford (lead guitar), Jackie Fox/ Fuchs (bass) and Joan "Jett" Larkin (rhythm guitar) in 1976 while the group only produced one official "hit" per se...
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Will the Runaways movie (cherry) bomb?When I first heard that someone was making a bio-pic on The Runaways, and that Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning would be playing Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, respectively, I was in complete denial. No way in hell they'd actually do that..right? Wrong. It looks like the cast is really beginning to shape up for this as Michael Shannon is now in talks to ...
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"Runaways drummer Sandy West dies (from BBC News)":http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6079542.stmDrummer Sandy West, from the '70s all-female rock band The Runaways, has died of lung cancer aged 47...."We shared the dream of girls playing rock and roll. Sandy was an exuberant and powerful drummer," said Jett."I am overcome from the loss of my friend. I always told her we changed the world...
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Edgeplay: A Film About the RunawaysThe Runaways were both an actual all-girl rock 'n' roll band and a realization of their impresario's promotional imagination. Their run of four studio albums in the 1970s (The Runaways, Queens of Noise, Waitin' for the Night, And Now… The Runaways), a live LP (Live in Japan), and a few odds 'n' sods collection (Flaming Schoolgirls) yielded some terrific glitte.
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| 1 Saturday Night Special |
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| 2 Eight Days a Week |
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| 3 Mama Weer All Crazee Now |
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| 4 I'm a Million |
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| 5 Right Now |
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