![]() ![]() ![]() Kim Fowley Kim Fowley, the mercurial and eccentric music producer and Svengali who created and managed the all-female rock group the Runaways in the 1970s, died Thursday after a long battle with bladder cancer. By 1977, the band's classic lineup of Lita Ford, Joan Jett, Cherie Currie, Sandy West, and Jackie Fox had begun to dissolve, and barely 18 months later, the group had officially disbanded. Just 40 years after they played their final show, Joan Jett has revealed what caused the breakup of punk icons The Runaways. What happened to the band members of the Runaways? She did, however, sing and play guitar, and she does a pretty decent job of portraying the rock icon in one of the first prominent all-girl rock bands. No, Kristen Stewart did not actually urinate on a guitar while playing Joan Jett in "The Runaways." It just looks like it in the movie. The cause was lung cancer, diagnosed a year ago, her manager Mara Fox said.ĭid Kristen Stewart actually sing in The Runaways? 24 (AP) - Sandy West, whose ferocious drumming fueled the influential all-female 70's rock band the Runaways, which she founded with Joan Jett, died on Saturday in San Dimas, east of Los Angeles. Earlier in his career, Fowley had written the hits “Alley Oop” and “Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow,” along with songs for the Byrds and the Beach Boys. The Runaways were a creation of Kim Fowley, a record promoter, band manager, deejay, artist, and fixture on the debauched West Coast rock scene of the late 1960s and 1970s. Dakota Fanning Sings 'Cherry Bomb' from 'The Runaways'
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