04-15-2010, 06:20 PM
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Hmm let's see. I was there. I know the history. Joan Jett did not start the band. Micki Steele started it but never recorded the album. I was fortunate enough to see them twice with the Ramones. They had a huge cult following back in the day.
Matt got his info for the post from me.
I dug through my big box of rock n roll memories - articles, pictures and posters, jackets etc..... Sadly I didn't save the articles I so distinctly remember reading in Circus magazine but I have two small pictures I had cut out. I can scan them if you wish.
At the time of their release of their first album, June 1, 1976, the band was set.
From my Punk Diary:
June 1st, Tuesday
THE RUNAWAYS started as a bit of a lark. Back in the summer of 1974, California based Bomp Magazine ran a competition, sponsored by Kim Fowley, open to, "Girls who can bring hysteria, magic, beauty and teen authority to a stage. Girls with youth, energy, dedication, wildness and style." In the end, the Runaways were formed, first as a trio, then as a quartet now a quintet. At the time they were all around fourteen or fifteen but now most are sixteen, the oldest is Lita Ford at seventeen. The rest of the group are Joan Jett, Cherie Currie, Sandy West and Jackie Fox. Their debut LP "The Runaways" is now on Mercury in the US. Critics claimed the album was dated from the moment it was released, perhaps dooming it to never going above number 194 on the US album charts.
Matt got his info for the post from me.
I dug through my big box of rock n roll memories - articles, pictures and posters, jackets etc..... Sadly I didn't save the articles I so distinctly remember reading in Circus magazine but I have two small pictures I had cut out. I can scan them if you wish.
At the time of their release of their first album, June 1, 1976, the band was set.
From my Punk Diary:
June 1st, Tuesday
THE RUNAWAYS started as a bit of a lark. Back in the summer of 1974, California based Bomp Magazine ran a competition, sponsored by Kim Fowley, open to, "Girls who can bring hysteria, magic, beauty and teen authority to a stage. Girls with youth, energy, dedication, wildness and style." In the end, the Runaways were formed, first as a trio, then as a quartet now a quintet. At the time they were all around fourteen or fifteen but now most are sixteen, the oldest is Lita Ford at seventeen. The rest of the group are Joan Jett, Cherie Currie, Sandy West and Jackie Fox. Their debut LP "The Runaways" is now on Mercury in the US. Critics claimed the album was dated from the moment it was released, perhaps dooming it to never going above number 194 on the US album charts.
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