![]() ![]() But it was her representing all of us - it wasn’t just necessarily about Cherie. ![]() I started jamming on the “Cherry Bomb” riff, and he started with the chorus - “hello Daddy, hello Mom.” I’d say 20, 25 minutes, we came back and said, “Sing this.” It was great to be in that creative process, happening right there for a specific person. Kim and I went in the other room, and he said, just start playing me something, play a riff. So Kim said we’re going to write you a song. Cherie Currie showed up to audition, and she had no song to sing. Was the Runaways’ “ Cherry Bomb ” one of those immediate songs? You have to sit down and go, this is so stupid, no one’s going to listen to this - that’s how it starts. But basically, I have to remind myself: It’s work. You don’t sit down, because if you sit down, then you have to come up with something, and if you don’t, what then? Maybe five times in my whole life have I sat down and a song was pretty much there - idea, melody, riff. But I think I feel more fearful that you’re not going to come up with anything. 19, in Michigan, with Australia on deck next year, and their catalog has just begun streaming.ĭo you still get the same joy from writing a song that you did early on? The Blackhearts’ ongoing United States tour resumes Oct. “You should sweat when you’re onstage,” she said. The effect is the same though: hot, figuratively and literally. Her leather looks are actually faux she is a longtime animal advocate. At 60, she is still clad in black and leather, with expertly winged eyeliner - even offstage. Her ferocity and defiance have never diminished. ![]() I didn’t have a Plan B.” (As Iggy Pop puts it in the doc: “Joan Jett was nobody’s sidecar.”) “For me, it was all in, completely,” she said of being a rock musician. Her drive was to keep playing, no matter the consequences even when women were sidelined, she persevered. That’s one message of “ Bad Reputation,” a documentary chronicling her 40-plus years in the music business, first as a founder of the Runaways, the seismic teen girl rockers of the ’70s, then as the frontwoman and guitarist for the Blackhearts, her enduring band. ![]()
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