By Cherie Currie and Tony O'Neill
LA Times Bestseller
"* * * *" - Rolling Stone
"What truly amazes me is what a fine, honest,
introspective author Cherie is, with an incredible tale about an
incredible life, and a fascinating personal odyssey."
Joan Jett, from the Foreword Cherie Currie, with her signature Bowie haircut and fishnet
stockings, was the groundbreaking lead singer of '70s teenage all-girl
rock band the Runaways. At the tender age of fifteen, she joined a
group of talented girls—Joan Jett and Lita Ford on guitar, Jackie Fox
on bass, and Sandy West on drums—who could play rock like no one else.
Arriving on the Los Angeles music scene in 1975, they catapulted from playing small clubs to selling out major stadiums, headlining shows with opening acts like the Ramones, Van Halen, Cheap Trick, and Blondie. Currie lit up the stage with the provocative teen-rebellion songs "Cherry Bomb," "Queens of Noise," and "Born to Be Bad," riding a wave of hit songs and platinum albums, all while touring around the world.
On the face of it, Currie's is a riveting story of girl empowerment and fame. But it is also an intensely personal account of her struggles with drugs, sexual abuse, and violence. She and her bandmates, runaways all, were thrown into a decadent, high-pressure music scene where on the road, unsupervised for months at a time, they had to grow up fast and experience things that no teenage girls should. Neon Angel exposes the side of the music industry fans never get to see, and chronicles the group's rise to fame and their ultimate demise.
Shocking and inspiring, funny and touching, Neon Angel
stunningly re-creates a bygone era of rock and roll, all the while
providing an inside look at growing up hard under the relentless glare
of the public eye, and chronicling one tough woman's fight to reclaim
her life.
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