Profile
Lita Ford
Musician + Songwriter
Female
Born
Sep 19, 1958
Age
54
Hometown
London, England
Genres
Hard rock + Heavy...
Instruments
B.C. Rich Warlock...
Performed With
The Runaways + Ni...
Record Label
RCA Records
Other Names
Ford, Carmelita R...
Carmelita Rossana "Lita" Ford is a British-born, American-raised rock guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter, who was the lead guitarist for The Runaways in the late 1970s before embarking on a successful solo career in the 1980s.
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Album Premiere: Lita Ford, 'Living Like A Runaway'Rolling Stone - Jun 18, 2012
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Lita Ford From The Runaways Joins The Resurging Heavy Metal SceneLATimes - Jun 16, 2012
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1958
Birth
Born on September 19, 1958.
TEENAGE
1975
16 Years Old
In 1975, at the age of 16, Ford was recruited by recording impresario Kim Fowley to join the all-female rock band he was assembling called The Runaways.
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TWENTIES
Ford's lead-guitar playing became an integral element of the band's sound until their eventual break-up in 1979.
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1983
24 Years Old
Following the breakup of The Runaways, Ford set about launching a solo career. Her debut solo album, entitled Out for Blood, was released in 1983 and was a commercial disappointment.
1984
25 Years Old
Her next release, 1984's Dancin' on the Edge achieved moderate success and Ford's popularity began to rise, due largely to her sex appeal with the largely male heavy metal audience.
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1988
29 Years Old
Following the failure to have her third solo album released, Ford signed with RCA Records, hired Sharon Osbourne Management, and re-emerged with a more radio-friendly pop-metal sound. In 1988 she released her most commercially successful album, the self-produced Lita.
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THIRTIES
1991
32 Years Old
Ford's next release was 1991's Dangerous Curves on Spitfire Records, which featured her last charting single to date, "Shot Of Poison".
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1994
35 Years Old
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Ford was married to W.A.S.P guitarist Chris Holmes in the early 1990s for a short time; the pair divorced and Ford began dating former Nitro vocalist Jim Gillette in 1994.
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1995
36 Years Old
Following the release of Black in 1995, Ford did not release new material until the Wicked Wonderland album almost fifteen years later.
FORTIES
2008
49 Years Old
In June of 2008, Ford re-emerged with a new band, playing several warm-up gigs under the moniker Kiss Me Deadly prior to Rocklahoma in the New York City area.
FIFTIES
In June of 2009, she began touring the United States and Europe with a new line-up consisting of current Guns N' Roses guitarist Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal, Bumblefoot drummer Dennis Leeflang, and Deepfield bassist PJ Farley.
In May 2011, Ford promised to release a "real comeback album" later in the year, saying that 2009's nu metal-inspired Wicked Wonderland, was too much of a collective project with ex-husband Jim Gillette. "A lot of people have told me that they want a real Lita Ford album, and I know what they mean.
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