Queens of Noise

The Real Story of the Runaways

Evelyn McDonnell, Evelyn McDonnell

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English

Da Capo
09 July 2013

Music

In four years the teenage members of the Runaways did what no other group of female rock musicians before them could: they released four albums for a major label and toured the world. The Runaways busted down doors for every girl band that followed. Joan Jett, Sandy West, Cherrie Currie, lead guitarist Lita Ford, and bassists Jackie Fox and Vicky Blue were pre-punk bandits, fostering revolution girl style decades before that became a riot grrrl catchphrase.

The story of the Runaways has never been told in its entirety. Drawing on interviews with most of this seminal rock band's former members as well as controversial manager Kim Fowley,

Queens of Noise

will look beyond the lurid voyeuristic appeal of a sex-drugs-rock 'n' roll saga to give the band its place in musical, feminist, and cultural history.

By: Evelyn McDonnell, Evelyn McDonnell
Imprint: Da Capo
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 238mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 560g
ISBN: 9780306820397
ISBN 10: 0306820390
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 09 July 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Evelyn McDonnell, author or co-editor of five books, has been a pop music critic for the Miami Herald and a senior editor at the Village Voice. She lives in Los Angeles.