Living Like a Runaway A Memoir

Lita Ford

eBook - 2016

A "fun, often hilarious" memoir by the queen of heavy metal and Runaways guitarist, packed with "plenty of colorful '80s rocker stories" (Philadelphia Inquirer).Wielding her signature black guitar, Lita Ford shredded stereotypes of female musicians throughout the 1970s and '80s. Then followed more than a decade of silence and darkness—until rock and roll repaid the debt it owed this pioneer, helped Lita reclaim her soul, and restored the Queen of Metal to her throne. Fearless, revealing, and compulsively readable, Living Like a Runaway is the long-awaited memoir from one of rock's fiercest survivors.In 1975, she left home at sixteen to join the world's first major all-female rock group, the Runaways...—a pioneering band that was portrayed in a film starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning. Lita went on to become "heavy rock's first female guitar hero" (Washington Post), a platinum-selling solo star who shared bills with the Ramones, Van Halen,... more