Lita Ford refuses to give in to time. For some artists thats ok they gracefully age but with Ford, not so much. When your younger days were based at least partially on your youth- its silly as a senior citizen to try and maintain.
Unlike Joan Jett, who has kept the same persona from Runaway to current, Lita cant pull off that young vixen bit at age 55. She also has yet to evolve, she still cashes in on the Runaway name. 55 year old runaways rarely generate attention. Even her last LP cashes in on her past- its time to grasp those days are gone.
But before she goes its time to hear(or read) her words about her uber fun super rock and roll past. Shes still living there so its nostalgia with a dash of pathetic.
The website SleazeRoxx.com says the following :
Lita Ford lived her dreams, until her life turned into a nightmare. She left home at age sixteen to join the world’s first all-female rock group, the Runaways — a band whose legend was sealed by the 2010 hit movie starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning — and went on to become the first woman hard rock guitarist, a platinum-selling star who gave Ozzy Osbourne his first top ten hit, a bare-ass, leather-clad sexy babe whose hair was bigger and guitar licks were hotter than any of the guys. She is also the mother of two sons whose harrowing tale of her catastrophic marriage to a metal rocker makes Ike and Tina Turner sound like life at the country club.
But in the end, Lita’s story changes from a music story to a woman’s story — a wrenching, desperate drama of human bondage and a mother’s love, a life-and-death struggle over her own soul. Trapped in an increasingly terrifying marriage, systematically stripped of her connections to the outside world, Lita Ford became a prisoner in her own life, a slave to her husband’s demands, living like a captive. She plotted her escape and her freedom cost her the boys she stayed in the marriage to protect. Her graphic, explicit story will terrify and horrify readers, but they won’t be able to put it down.
Were they endorsed? That’s not a review thats a sales pitch. I have no respect for Ford (can ya tell) so I won’t be ‘captivated’ by her words, nor should you contribute to her bank.
The book comes out in November.
