Kim Fowley allegedly used to throw jars of peanut butter at the girls during rehearsals to prepare them for the rough audiences they were bound to encounter. Currie describes the management’s behavior as abuse in the name of “toughening them up” but ask anyone else and it just reads like flat-out abuse. If the grueling, thankless schedule wasn’t too much for the young women to handle, the treatment they endured at the hands of their management was. They were making a lot of money off of us.” “Either we were touring, rehearsing or in the studio, and we were making no money at all. “We just never had a break,” Currie recalls of her time in the band with Jett, Lita Ford, Sandy West, and Jackie Fox. Looking back, she says today, she had no idea what taking the job would hold.įor the next two years, the increasingly precocious teenagers would travel the country on tour, spend hours upon hours in the recording studio, and be paid almost nothing for their time or effort. While looking for lady rockers to join her group, she approached not Cherie but Marie Currie, Cherie’s identical twin, to be a lead singer.Ĭherie only got the gig when Marie turned it down.
When looking at Cherie Currie’s long-winded career, it’s hard to imagine that it almost didn’t happen.Ī year before the band took off, Joan Jett, the leader of the Runaways, was introduced to future manager Kim Fowley at an Alice Cooper afterparty, who took a chance on her unconventional idea of an all-female band. GAB Archive/Redferns/Getty Images Cherie Currie and the Runaways.
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