[2016-02-23] Lita Ford "Living Like A Runaway" hardcover memoir

Linda · **Posted:** Fri Jun 13, 2014 3:43 pm

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The legendary former lead guitarist of The Runaways—“heavy metal’s leading female rocker” (Rolling Stone)—opens up about the ’70s and ’80s music scene and her extraordinary life and career in this long-awaited, emotionally powerful memoir.

Lita Ford lived her dreams, until her life turned into a nightmare. She left home at age sixteen to join the world’s first all-female rock group, the Runaways—a band whose legend was sealed by the 2010 hit movie starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning—and went on to become the first woman hard rock guitarist, a platinum-selling star who gave Ozzy Osbourne his first Top Ten hit, a bare-ass, leather-clad sexy babe whose hair was bigger and guitar licks were hotter than any of the guys. She is also the mother of two sons whose harrowing tale of her catastrophic marriage to a metal rocker makes Ike and Tina Turner sound like life at the country club.

But in the end, Lita’s story changes from a music story to a woman’s story—a wrenching, desperate drama of human bondage and a mother’s love, a life-and-death struggle over her own soul. Trapped in an increasingly terrifying marriage, systematically stripped of her connections to the outside world, Lita Ford became a prisoner in her own life, a slave to her husband’s demands, living like a captive. She plotted her escape and her freedom cost her the boys she stayed in the marriage to protect. Her graphic, explicit story will terrify and horrify readers, but they won’t be able to put it down.

Living Like a Runaway will shock people with the candor that Lita Ford shines on her dramatic life story. At ease as a woman in the previously all-male world of rock, Lita shares with her male counterparts an unvarnished directness when it comes to topics such as sex, drugs, money or fame. No female rock star of Lita’s stature has ever before told the real story of women in rock. With unprecedented rawness and honesty, Living Like a Runaway reminds us that Lita Ford is not only one of music’s greatest pioneers, but also one of its fiercest survivors.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0062270648/?tag=imwan-20

Linda · **Posted:** Thu Feb 25, 2016 6:03 am

Linda · **Posted:** Sat Feb 27, 2016 2:50 pm

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Robert Plant asked The Runaways' Lita Ford to replace John Paul Jones in Led Zeppelin

Robert Plant apparently offered to sack Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones and replace him with The Runaways' Lita Ford.

The guitarist claims in her new memoir Living Like A Runaway that the frontman made the approach after a Runaways gig in Los Angeles in 1975.

"[He] asked me if I could play bass," Consequence Of Sound reports that she wrote. "For who?' I asked. 'Led Zep.' He might have been drinking or pulling my leg, but he seemed to be dead serious in the moment."

Ford never heard back from Plant, but Jones did leave Led Zeppelin around the same time.

The Runaways guitarist covered Led Zeppelin's 'Rock And Roll' for a tribute album released in 1997.

http://www.nme.com/news/led-zeppelin/91881

Charlie · **Joined:** 23 Dec 2014 **Posts:** 14199

Lita is releasing an album that is meant to go along with this book. Details are in this thread:
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=96763

[2016-02-23] Lita Ford "Living Like A Runaway" hardcover memoir

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