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The Runaways
with Joan Jett and Lita Ford
1978-01-07
The Palladium
New York, NY
FM Broadcast
256 kbps
Artwork Included
01. Tuning
02. Wasted
03. Blackmail
04. Queens Of Noise
05. You're Too Possessive
06. Wild Thing
07. You Drive Me Wild
08. Wait For Me
09. I Wanna Be Where The Boys Are
10. I Love Playin' With Fire
11. School Days
12. American Nights
13. C'Mon
In the mid 1970’s, 5 young women – Joan Jett, Lita Ford, Sandy West, Cherie Currie and Micki Steele (later replaced by Peggy Foster and then Jackie Fox) – formed a band and the rest as they say, is history. Punk and Heavy Metal were two emerging trends in the mid 70s, and The Runaways proved that those genres were not the exclusive domain of the boys of rock and roll. They released their first album in 1976, then headlined shows with opening acts such as Cheap Trick, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Van Halen. In the summer of 1977 the group arrived in Japan for a string of sold out shows. At the time, the only bands selling more albums in Japan than the Runaways were ABBA, Kiss and Led Zeppelin. They were mobbed by fans on their visit, and Joan Jett later described the mass hysteria as being like Beatlemania. This FM Broadcast captures the band a few months after their triumphant visit to Japan, on January 7, 1978, 42 years ago today at the Palladium in New York. By that point, Currie had left the band, and tensions were rising between the other members. In addition, while The Runaways were huger overseas, they had yet to breakthrough in the US. In just about a year, the band would break up, due to creative differences between Jett, who wanted the band to play more punk and new wave music, and Ford, who pushed to steer the group more toward hard rock and heavy metal. Download this show, therefore, to catch the Runaways at their peak, and get a glimpse at what Joan Jett and Lita Ford sounded like before their highly successful solo careers.
