ldquo;Heavy metalrsquo;s leading female rocker (Rolling Stone) bares all; opening up about the Runaways; the glory days of the punk and hard-rock scenes; and the highs and lows of her trailblazing careerWielding her signature black guitar; Lita Ford shredded stereotypes of female musicians throughout the 1970s and lsquo;80s. Then followed more than a decade of silence and darknessmdash;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.In 1975; Lita Ford left home at age sixteen to join the worldrsquo;s first major all-female rock group; the Runawaysmdash;a ldquo;pioneering bandrdquo; (New York Times) that became the subject of a Hollywood movie starring Kristen Stewart ad Dakota Fanning. Lita went on to become ldquo;heavy rockrsquo;s first female guitar herordquo; (Washington Post); a platinum-selling solo star who shared the bill with the Ramones; Van Halen; Motley Crue; Bon Jovi; Def Leppard; Poison; and others and who gave Ozzy Osbourne his first Top 10 hit. She was a bare-ass; leather-clad babe whose hair was bigger and whose guitar licks were hotter than any of the guysrsquo;.Hailed by Elle as ldquo;one of the greatest female electric guitar players to ever pick up the instrument;rdquo; Lita spurred the meteoric rise of Joan Jett; Cherie Currie; and the rest of the Runaways. Her phenomenal talent on the fret board also carried her to tremendous individual success after the grouprsquo;s 1979 disbandment; when she established herself as a ldquo;legendary metal iconrdquo; (Guitar World) and a fixture of the 1980s music scene who held her own after hours with Nikki Sixx; Jon Bon Jovi; Eddie Van Halen; Tommy Lee; Motorheadrsquo;s Lemmy; Black Sabbathrsquo;s Tony Iommi (to whom she was engaged); and others.Featuring a foreword by Dee Snider; Living Like a Runaway also provides never-before-told details of Litarsquo;s dramatic personal story. For Lita; life as a woman in the male-dominated rock scene was never easy; a constant battle with the music establishment. But then; at a low point in her career; came a tumultuous marriage that left her feeling trapped; isolated from the rock-and-roll scene for more than a decade; andmdash;most tragicallymdash;alienated from her two sons. And yet; after a dramatic and emotional personal odyssey; Lita picked up her guitar and stormed back to the stage. As Guitar Player hailed in 2014 when they inducted her into their hall of fame of guitar greats: ldquo;She is as badass as ever.rdquo;Fearless; revealing; and compulsively readable; Lita Fordrsquo;s Living Like a Runaway is the long-awaited memoir from one of rockrsquo;s greatest pioneersmdash;and fiercest survivors.
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