Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway
At the tender age of fifteen, groundbreaking lead singer Cherie Currie joined a group of talented girls—Joan Jett and Lita Ford on guitar, Jackie Fox on bass, and Sandy West on drums—who could rock like no one else.\ Arriving on the Los Angeles music scene in 1975, The Runaways catapulted from playing small clubs to selling out major stadiums—headlining shows with opening acts like the Ramones, Van Halen, Cheap Trick, and Blondie while riding a wave of hit songs and platinum albums, and...
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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. Boston Globe “Unflinchingly honest.”
Acknowledgments xiii\ Foreword Joan Jett xv\ 1 Diamond Dogs and Revelations 1\ 2 Rebel, Rebel 22\ 3 The Queen of Hate 30\ 4 Learning Experiences 42\ 5 The Orange Tornado 57\ 6 Cherry Bomb 69\ 7 "Welcome to the Runaways" 80\ 8 Mom's News 88\ 9 Saying Good-bye 95\ 10 Highs and Lows 105\ 11 Touring 120\ 12 Kim Fowley's Sex Education Class 129\ 13 The Road 140\ 14 Daddy's Car 146\ 15 Snapshots of Europe 157\ 16 Greetings from Scotland Yard 171\ 17 Postcards from Nowhere 182\ 18 The Queens of Noise 189\ 19 The Procedure 196\ 20 Too Many Creeps 201\ 21 Live in Japan 209\ 22 The Last Straw 219\ 23 Beauty's Only Skin Deep 226\ 24 One Hundred Ways to Fry a Brain 232\ 25 The Terrible Green Limousine 245\ 26 Killers and Clowns 265\ 27 Foxes 274\ 28 Battlefields 286\ 29 Annie and Me 291\ 30 Life in the White House 296\ 31 Marie Says Good-bye 307\ 32 The Twilight Zone 315\ 33 A New Life 323\ 34 The End of the Ride 329\ 35 This Side of Forever 334\ Afterword 341
\ LA Weekly“Raw and riveting.”\ \ \ \ \ Spin“[NEON ANGEL] reveals how the liberated life of a 16-year-old rock star in Los Angeles included many dark moments.”\ \ \ Entertainment Weekly“Details the band’s short, messy history and the struggle with addiction that nearly claimed her life.”\ \ \ \ \ Boston Globe“Unflinchingly honest.”\ \ \ \ \ Reuters“Currie is looking forward to giving Neon Angel its second life…the new version, with a foreword by [Joan] Jett, adds the sex, drugs and darkness that were missing from the first edition.”\ \ \ \ \ New York Times“The striking thing about The Runaways, is how authentic it feels… One reason may be that the movie is partly based on Neon Angel, a newly revamped autobiography by the group’s lead singer Cherie Currie, whose chillingly quick self-destruction is relived through Dakota Fanning.”\ \ \ \ \ Joan Jett“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.”\ \ \ \ \ on The Tonight Show"I don’t think a lot of people know the story of Cherie Currie. It’s an amazing story and she’s an amazing woman and performer. "\ \ \ \ \ Dakota Fanning on The Tonight Show“I don’t think a lot of people know the story of Cherie Currie. It’s an amazing story and she’s an amazing woman and performer. ”\ \ \ \ \ New York Times“The striking thing about The Runaways, is how authentic it feels… One reason may be that the movie is partly based on Neon Angel, a newly revamped autobiography by the group’s lead singer Cherie Currie, whose chillingly quick self-destruction is relived through Dakota Fanning.”\ \ \ \ \ Reuters“Currie is looking forward to giving Neon Angel its second life…the new version, with a foreword by [Joan] Jett, adds the sex, drugs and darkness that were missing from the first edition.”\ \ \ \ \ Boston Globe“Unflinchingly honest.”\ \
