Cherie Currie always wanted to sing for a rock band and explore the world. Although she had no formal training, she helped bring together an entire teenage community with her singing and dancing back home in the San Fernando Valley in California. After months of constant touring with her new band, however, Cherie is a troubled and lonely young girl. She is the lead singer and blonde bombshell of The Runaways rock band, made up of rhythm guitarist Joan Jett, lead guitarist Lita Ford, bass guitarist Jackie Fox, and drummer Sandy West. It is 1977, and The Runaways are constantly on tour with no breaks, stressing Cherie out. She is not used to being so far from her twin sister and her dad back home in the Valley. Furthermore, she is stressed about Lita, who scolds her for her clumsy mistakes while on tour. Cherie remembers the time in the studio yesterday.
Lita: Okay ladies, let's warm up [claps].
Sandy: Yes! Here we go [jumps onto her drum set]!
Lita starts playing her favorite warm up song on her black Hamer Slammer guitar: Deep Purple - Highway Star. Cherie and Joan sing together, with Joan playing her blond Gibson Les Paul guitar and Jackie playing her white Gibson Thunderbird bass guitar.
Cherie and Joan:
Nobody gonna take my car
I'm gonna race it to the ground
Nobody gonna beat my car
It's gonna break the speed of sound
Ooh, it's a killing machine
It's got everything
Like a driving power
Big fat tires and everything
I love it and I need it, I bleed it
Yeah, it's a wild hurricane
Alright, hold tight
I'm a highway star
Nobody gonna take my girl
In gonna keep her to the end
Nobody gonna have my girl
She stays close on every bend
Ooh, she's a killing machine
She got everything
Like a moving mouth
Body control and everything
I love her, I need her, I seed her
Yeah, she turns me on
Alright, hold on tight
I'm a highway star
Cherie jumps on the Hammond organ and performs the insane organ solo.
Nobody gonna take my head I got speed inside my brain
Nobody gonna steal my head
Now that I'm on the road again
Ooh, I'm in heaven again
I've got everything
Like a moving ground
An open road and everything
I love it and I need it, I seed it
Eight cylinders all mine
Alright, hold on tight
I'm a highway star
Lita performs Ritchie Blackmore's insane lead guitar solo perfectly, note by note, inspired by classical music.
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The Little Red Cherry Bomb
Teen FictionThis fictional fairytale screenplay is centered around a fictional Cherie Currie of The Runaways. Cherie always wanted to be in a rock band since she was 14, but she never anticipated any of her current struggles, now 17, with The Runaways. She seek...
