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Neon Angel
Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway | Cherie Currie, Tony O'Neill
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At the tender age of fifteen, groundbreaking lead singer Cherie Currie joined a group of talented girlsJoan Jett and Lita Ford on guitar, Jackie Fox on bass, and Sandy West on drumswho could rock like no one else. Arriving on the Los Angeles music scene in 1975, The Runaways catapulted from playing small clubs to selling out major stadiumsheadlining shows with opening acts like the Ramones, Van Halen, Cheap Trick, and Blondie while riding a wave of hit songs and platinum albums, and touring the world. A shocking, funny, and touching re-creation of a bygone era of rock and roll that chronicles the Runaways' rise to fame and ultimate demise, Neon Angel is also an intensely personal account of Currie's struggles with drugs, sexual abuse, and violence in a decadent, high-pressure music scenea world of uncontrolled excess where she and her unsupervised bandmates had to grow up fast and experience things that no teenage girls should.
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Cinfhen
Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway | Cherie Currie, Tony O'Neill
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This one DEFINITELY fits the bill for #TitlesAndTunes #SexDrugsAndRockNRoll Cherie shares growing up in the 70‘s being heavily influenced by David Bowie, her addiction to drugs, her abandonment of rules & approval and remarkable recovery.
Despite the appearance of leading a glamorous existence , Cherie Curie‘s life was messy, chaotic and troubled. Plenty of trauma & harrowing stories 🙌🏻🖤TW: violent rape 👇🏼

Cinfhen Her friendship & collaboration with Joan Jett is legendary. Even if you‘re not familiar with Cherie Currie her book is worth a read! Riveting (edited) 1y
BarbaraBB Sounds perfect for the prompt!! 1y
Cinfhen It REALLY was @BarbaraBB especially since my #GuiltyPleasure(s) were duds 😂 1y
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Cinfhen
Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway | Cherie Currie, Tony O'Neill
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@BarbaraBB make room for another song for our July #TitlesAndTunes playlist 😁After reading the first 4.chapters of Cherie Currie‘s memoir she has mentioned David Bowie at least 2 dozen times and credits Bowie, specifically the song Rebel Rebel with inspiring her to become a musician/ rockstar 🎸🎤🖤 #SexDrugsAndRockandRoll

BarbaraBB And how could we have a playlist without Bowie? With pleasure! 1y
TrishB And a great song! 1y
Cinfhen Right??? @BarbaraBB @TrishB playlist NEEDS Bowie 👨🏻‍🎤 1y
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Cinfhen
Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway | Cherie Currie, Tony O'Neill
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I‘m jumping in with my #TitlesAndTunes July pick 🎵📚😎
I‘ll be reading the memoir of Cherie Currie one of the original members of the first all woman‘s rock band - The Runaways🤘🏼and since Joan Jett was also an original member I‘m going with I Love Rock n‘ Roll 🎸
Plus ANYTHING to do with the 70‘s makes me think #SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll

vivastory Joan Jett 🤘🎸 2y
BarbaraBB Super choices! How I loved Joan Jett!! July‘s playlist is gonna be awesome 😎 1y
Cinfhen I really wanted to use a 🌶️song @BarbaraBB but this book was calling to me!! And you‘ve already got the guys covered 😜 1y
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BookishRedhead
Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway | Cherie Currie, Tony O'Neill
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It's here!
My signed Cherie Currie picture.
I'm so happy!
Now I gotta put it in a frame 🖼️

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RavenclawOwlCat
Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway | Cherie Currie, Tony O'Neill
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On no! Found a mistake in one of my favorite books. Should be “I‘m”

Texreader ARGH!
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RavenclawOwlCat
Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway | Cherie Currie, Tony O'Neill
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Starts with N: one of my favorite books! Neon Angel 💛 #ForeverNovember challenge day 1.

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RavenclawOwlCat
Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway | Cherie Currie, Tony O'Neill
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#BloomingBibliophiles #YellowCover one of my favorite books!

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Darcy-Bennett
Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway | Cherie Currie, Tony O'Neill
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I've yet to find myself Runaways album but, jazzed to have found this one at a flea market 💛

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InkedBookworm13
Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway | Cherie Currie, Tony O'Neill
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Day 3 #SpringIntoReading
My#pinkbooks pick is Neon Angels: Memoir of a Runaway. This book is a great behind the scenes look at the runaways Rose to fame from Cherie's point of view. This is one of the few times where I saw the movie inspired by the book first and then ran out and bought the book. 😀
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @vkois88

vkois88 I never saw the movie but it definitely intrigued me 6y
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InkedBookworm13
Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway | Cherie Currie, Tony O'Neill
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📚 Neon Angels: A Memoir of a Runaway
🎥 Dogma
🎵 Angel baby
#Manicmonday @joscho

JoScho 💙😇💙 6y
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BookishRedhead
Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway | Cherie Currie, Tony O'Neill
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Reread.
This book is heartbreaking and inspiring.
No wonder I keep coming back to it.

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BookishRedhead
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Today's mood.

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amb
Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway | Cherie Currie, Tony O'Neill
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I read the revised version of this book, in the afterward she said she went back and added things she couldn't say in 1989 and brought it up to present time (I suspect that was a few pages at the end that didn't really flesh out much of that time. It was interesting, but it jumped back and forth a lot and I found it a little difficult to figure out where she was in time even within a chapter. Some truly horrible things happened to her.

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RavenclawOwlCat
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Omg SO good!!!!! Gives you inside info you would have never known or never would have guessed happened in Cherie Currie's life before and after the band. The Runaways shaped history for them to be the first all girl rock band in the mid 70s is just awesome.

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RavenclawOwlCat
Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway | Cherie Currie, Tony O'Neill
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Omg SO good!!!!! Gives you inside info you would have never known or never would have guessed happened in Cherie Currie's life before and after the band. The Runaways shaped history for them to be the first all girl rock band in the mid 70s is just awesome.