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"Cherry Bomb" is the debut single by the all-female band The Runaways from their self-titled debut album, released on March 16, 1976 through Mercury Records. [1] " Cherry Bomb" was ranked 52nd on VH1 's 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs [ 6 ] and peaked at number 106 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart.
The Runaways were an American rock band who recorded and performed from 1975 to 1979. Formed in 1975 in Los Angeles, the band released four studio albums and one live album during its run. Among their best-known songs are "Cherry Bomb", "Hollywood", "Queens of Noise" and a cover version of the Velvet Underground's "Rock & Roll". Never a major ...
Currie performed at The Runaways' reunion in 1994 with Jackie Fox and Sandy West. Her sister Marie joined the three Runaways on stage and performed with the band. [7] In 1998, Cherie and Marie held a concert at the Golden Apple, in support of their re-released version of Messin' With The Boys. Cherie's ex-bandmate West joined Cherie on stage to ...
The Runaways is the debut studio album by American rock band the Runaways, was released on March 16, 1976, through Mercury Records. [1] AllMusic has praised the album (especially band members Cherie Currie, Joan Jett and Lita Ford), comparing the band's music to material by Led Zeppelin and Aerosmith. [4]
Michael Steele (born Susan Thomas [1] on June 2, 1955) is an American retired musician, best known as the bassist for The Bangles.Under the name Micki Steele, she was a founding member of The Runaways but left in 1975, shortly before the band's major label debut.
In a cover story for Crawdaddy, the author wrote that after seeing Currie perform “Cherry Bomb,” the band’s biggest song, he was “overcome with the urge to jack off against the stage.” A review in the April 1977 issue of Creem began with a simple three-word sentence: “These bitches suck.”
In the years following her tenure with the Runaways, Fuchs worked in a variety of fields, most notably as a record promotions executive, a modeling agent, the promoter of Tony Robbins's Firewalking seminars, and most recently an entertainment attorney in the motion picture and television business, representing actors, writers, directors, authors, and producers.
Two songs, Alice Cooper's "No More Mr. Nice Guy" and The Runaways' "Cherry Bomb", were specifically re-recorded by the original performers for use in Warriors of Rock. [9] The song " Black Rain " by Soundgarden represents the first single by the group since 1997, and the release of the game was planned in coordination with Soundgarden's ...