The Runaways
The Runaways were a seminal all-women band who performed proto-punk heavy metal music in the 1970s.
Widely believed at the time to have been a novelty act formed by producer Kim Fowley, who thought the notion of young women dressed in leather and lingerie performing heavy metal music was highly marketable, the band released its first record in 1976. They broke up in 1979, but not before launching the careers of Joan Jett and Lita Ford, who went on to achieve substantial success as solo artists in the 1980s. Cherie Currie went on to a
briefly successful career as an actress before falling into heavy drug use. Michael Steele later joined the Bangles.
The Runaways paved the way for female oriented punk bands like X-Ray Spex
and Bikini Kill and more recently The Donnas.
Discography:
- The Runaways, 1976
- Queens of Noise, 1977
- Live in Japan,1977
- Waiting For The Night, 1977
- And Now. . . The Runaways, 1978
Referenced By
1960 in music | Bangles | Californian music | Cherie Currie | Joan Jett | List of forerunners of punk music | Lita Ford | Music of California | Pre-Punk Bands | Pre-punk music | The Bangles
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