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But fate can sometimes be advantageous and in a world of quarantines, social-distancing and fear of walking out the door, we need good rocking out music, and Cherie Currie has it all right here in the palm of her hand: Blvds Of Splendor. Head-to-toe, this record is spilling over with strong songs that show no signs of being dated, stale or boring. Spending her recent years as a chainsaw sculptress, Currie had made some movies and several solo albums, including one with her twin sister Marie, after she left The Runaways following two studio albums.

She saw her memoir, Neon Angel , become a movie in starring Dakota Fanning as a teenaged Currie, about the same time she started work on the aforementioned album. To say she is excited about having this recording finally out there for people to hear is an understatement. Cherie, on your album cover you are still rock chick-ing it out.

So I guess that is here to stay. I was asked to do that show and Matt Sorum had a friend that did wardrobe for his now wife and her band and this little gal came and just decked me out in these cool clothes. So I kind of liked it at the time. It really is. I still feel the same way I did in my twenties, amazingly so, or in my thirties.

Blvds Of Splendor took a little while to get here. I wanted more of a huge sound. So I asked Kenny [Laguna] if we could bring in Thom Panunzio, who is known for mixing great sounding records.

But in doing that, I delayed the record coming out when Blackheart was planning to do it. But of course, Kenny is on tour with Joan ten months out of the year and the record ended up getting shelved. Then when they were thinking about putting it out, I had an accident when I was chainsaw carving and I had a scaffold collapse with me on it and that took a good solid year for me to recover from that. So I just kind of shut the door on that. But with this pandemic happening and after Record Store Day and them putting it out as an LP, it was a real pleasant surprise to finally see it released and to hear it after ten years and how great it sounds.

It deserves it. No, this record has been sitting as is in the Blackheart vault on a shelf somewhere for a long time. I just had to. I met Matt doing different charity events and he reached out to me when Ken Phillips, my publicist, and I were touring on the movie. So I asked Matt if he knew of any musicians. And having Matt run these rehearsals, let me tell you, boy, you straightened up. A true pro and we kicked butt when we opened for Joan. It was unexpected. And we went in and Matt made this great record.

But she at that time was dating a young man that was writing with Jake while me and Holly were trying to do a little bit of writing on something else. To maintain that edge, she says, he pitted the bandmates against each other. They were making a lot of money off of us. Fuchs maintains — very eloquently — that this happened in front of Currie and Jett. In countless interviews since, Currie has given her version of events : that she did not witness anything that looked like rape.

By 17, Currie was burned out on cocaine and quaaludes, and quit. Two years later, she says, she was kidnapped and raped by a stalker who had previously murdered six women in Texas. It was in the s — having surrendered a nascent movie career to freebase cocaine — that Currie turned her life around and became a tech at Coldwater, working in both the drug and psych facilities.

Because kids need that kind of thing. But according to The Huffington Post , he was also an inveterate sexual predator who liked to prey on teenage girls. He even once took out a personal ad with a photo of himself and text that read: "If you are eighteen and like it or if you are under 18 and legally emancipated with paper work then you may have just stumbled upon the opportunity of a lifetime.

And of course Currie, Fox, and the other Runaways ended up being subjected to this predatory behavior. Fowley also worked the band members really hard. In order to prepare them for the tough crowds they would play for, he would scream, curse, and throw things at them while they rehearsed, and made them practice for extended periods of time.

Just to round out the abuse, Fowley exploited them economically as well, making sure most of the money went to him and other executives.