04.02.10
When Cherie Currie, the advance singer of 1970s teenage girl group The Runaways, sat down to a postcard her personal memoir, NEON ANGEL: A Memoir of a Truant (It
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Hardcover) she never imagined the list would be made into a highly anticipated movie, starring some of Hollywood's hottest actors.
Cherri Currie is the indigenous lead singer of 70s teenage, all-girl surprise band The Runaways. At the tender age of 15, she joined the assembly, a talented group of girls who could play rock like no other female assemble before them. On the face of it, Curries is a cool story of girl empowerment and eminence. But the truth is darker, as Currie and her band mates dealt with ravenous men who were not necessarily looking out for their best interests. On the road, unsupervised for months at a while, she had to grow up fast and experience things that no teenaged sheila should.
Cheries amazing resilience is inspiring. As band companion Joan Jett says in
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