Cherry Bomb (song)

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Cherry bomb
The Runaways
publication 1976
length 2:16
Genre (s) Hard rock , punk rock
text Joan Jett , Kim Fowley
Producer (s) Kim Fowley
Label Mercury Records
album The Runaways
Cover versions
1984 Joan Jett and The Blackhearts
1990 Crashland
1992 Cocknoose
1992 Bratmobile
1995 Shonen Knife
1995 Jayne County
1996 Steve and The Jerks
2009 Miley Cyrus
2010 Deadly Seven
2010 Verbal + Yoon
2011 Moon Violet
2011 The Dandy Warhols
2012 The Lightnin 3
2014 Scary Cherry and the Bang Bangs
2017 Wannabeastar
Cherry bomb
Single cover , Japanese version
Link to the picture on en.wikipedia.org
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Cherry Bomb is the debut single of the exclusively female occupied US rock - band The Runaways . The song appeared in 1976 on the debut album, also titled The Runaways . The evaluation of the songs in the Western world was mixed, the five teenagers existing lineup gained a bad reputation, not least because of the trashy perceived lingerie that their frontwoman Cherie Curriewore the performance of the "[angry] song about sexual rebellion" on stage. In Japan, on the other hand, the piece was number 1 on the music charts . The song developed into the band's signature song , an identity-defining title with a high recognition value , but later became a point of contention among its members because of its influence on the band's image.

story

Emergence

There are numerous stories about the origin of the title, of which those involved have reported several and divergent versions over the years. In 1975 the music producer and eccentric Svengali Kim Fowley was looking for an alternative for bassist Michael "Micki" Steele , the then singer of the rock band The Runaways , which was formed from the joint initiative of 16-year-old Joan Jett and Sandy West for a purely female occupied music group emerged; a “never-before-seen suggestion” that “was unthinkable at the time”. With regard to the appearance of the new singer, Fowley had a " Brigitte Bardot of rock 'n' roll " in mind.

In Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles , an establishment frequented by the local glam rock subculture , Fowley met the thin-bodied Cherie Currie, who was between 15 and 16 years old at the time, with a shaggy blonde hairstyle , big eyes and an extrovert, at Glam oriented style consciousness, in behavior and appearance of David Bowie in his role as Ziggy Stardust recalled. He invited her to audition in his garage in San Fernando Valley , California , for which she was supposed to prepare a song by Suzi Quatro .

Currie had chosen Quatro's title Fever , a cover version of the song by singer Peggy Lee . However, it turned out that the other band members Joan Jett, Sandy West, Lita Ford and Kari Krome did not know how to play the title, moreover, it had too slow a tempo for the rock musicians and was received with clear disapproval. Despite her wild style, Currie was also inclined to pop music , so she suggested, according to West, a Barry Manilow song as an alternative , which the band's musicians also unequivocally rejected.

The most widespread story is that Jett and band manager Fowley then composed the song Cherry Bomb for their audition within a very short time under the impression of Currie's appearance and her first name, which the author of the 2013 book Queens of Noise: The Real Story of The Runaways , Evelyn McDonnell, considers unlikely. Fowley said elsewhere that he wrote the song the night before rehearsal, specifically for Currie's audition. Krome reported that part of the song was based on a text she had already written at the time. Peggy Foster, intermittent bassist for the Runaways , recalled that the melody was later worked out in the studio. On the cover of the debut album The Runaways , the composition of the song is attributed to Jett and Fowley.

Cherie Currie and in the background Jackie Fox, Brumrock '76, Birmingham

Fowley handed Currie a piece of paper with the lyrics to it and performed a Mick Jagger- style dance sequence for her to use. Currie, who had no band experience, performed the song, stuttering the beginning of the chorus, similar to the title Changes by David Bowie. So she sang

"Hello daddy, hello mom
I'm your ch- ch- ch- ch- ch- ch- cherry bomb
Hello world, I'm your wild girl
I'm your ch- ch- ch- ch- ch- ch- cherry bomb. "

"There was rock and roll magic in the air," Fowley said later. The band voted, and although Lita Ford was still skeptical after the Fever / Manilow experience, in the end the Runaways agreed: Michael Steele was out, Cherie Currie was in.

On the lyrics of the song, the music website songfacts.com wrote: “A cherry bomb is a popular banger among children , but in the context of this song the term means an underage girl who causes a lot of trouble - in this case, mocking her parents and other adults with hints of promiscuity and bad behavior. "According to Evelyn McDonnell, Cherry Bomb was tailored to Cherie Currie:" The cracker title alludes to Cherie's name, cheekily refers to the jargon for hymen and makes you want to see the blonde sex bomb appear . "

According to Joan Jett, " Cherry Bomb [so] was written for Cherie so she could do her stage pose with the [circling] microphone". Kim Fowley expressed it to himself like this: " Cherry Bomb was hitting hot after a bitch named who sings her own animality [on stage] up there." The music author Chris O'Leary saw Cherrie Bomb ", the answer song" The Runaways on David Bowie's song Rebel Rebel .

While considerations of sexual freedom alternate with those of sexual inhibitions in the lyrics of the song, the underlying music moves between metal and punk . “A heavy riff accompanies a steady drum beat through the entire song, which leads to a thumping guitar solo by [Lita] Ford. In the background of this solo, an orgasmic moan can be heard several times, which reinforces the idea that rock 'n' roll does not develop in the head, but in the step , ”says Abbi Wynsma, music director of the radio station WDBM Impact 88.9 at Michigan State University .

Music recording and publishing

The recording of the song Cherry Bomb a tempo of 137 bpm in the key of B major place in the course of production of the first album of the band in the recording studio Fidelity Recording of Artie Ripps in Studio City , California. Fowley had decided to record here because of the rough atmosphere of the studio: “We were in the B-room, which was a converted storage room. It was terrible. But it wasn't scary. It was the kind of studio you wanted a garage product from . A lot of young bands go to studios with chandeliers and red velvet carpets and a receptionist who looks better than themselves and they are appalled. But if you walk into a room where they store their stuff, you won't be intimidated. You'll just show off like a sack of soap [and say], 'What a juice shop. But what the heck, we've already played in other lousy places. This is nothing new [to us]. '"

The band lineup at the time of recording was

The studio manager was the studio's chief technician, Andy Morris, who had the following equipment available to record the track

The single Cherry Bomb was released in 1976 on the Mercury Records label with the title Blackmail on the B-side . The music video for the title shows the band performing on a darkened stage in multi-colored lighting against a black background. Cherie Currie wearing a white corset , fishnet stockings and platform shoes , dancing and singing while the other band members play around them in Rock poses their instruments.

success

Male-dominated audience for The Runaways in Birmingham in 1976.

The band had in Western countries because of their Bad Girl images as a group of naughty, naughty girl initially only moderate success, which was mostly accompanied by the criticism that it is in the lascivious presented title by only Jailbait - Rock IN QUESTION. Her single Cherry Bomb reached number 57 on the Australian music charts and number 6 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart .

Charts (1976–1977) Best placement
Japanese music charts 1
VH1 ’s 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs 52
Australia ( Kent Music Report ) 57
US Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 6th

In contrast, The Runaways celebrated great success in Japan . When the band toured the country in the summer of 1977, audience surveys showed that they had already established themselves as the fourth most popular Western act in Japan. The musicians, who played in front of sold-out houses not least thanks to the popularity of Cherry Bomb , were accompanied by their euphoric fan base with a frenetic reception reminiscent of Beatlemania and treated like members of royalty. In contrast to the band's following in other countries, which was mostly made up of young men, the fan base in Japan was almost entirely made up of young women, who saw the Runaways as an example of strong, outspoken young women who were not afraid of authority rails. As a result, the title Cherry Bomb rose to number 1 on the Japanese charts.

Influence of the song on the image of the band

Joan Jett and Cherie Currie
Lita Ford
Jackie Fox, Cherie Currie
Joan Jett, Jackie Fox and Lita Ford

Although the band members did not call themselves feminists during their time together in the band, their goals were, however, quite compatible with the goals of feminism in terms of the enforcement of female strength and the equality of female musicians. They professed their sexuality in their music and controlled how they presented themselves to the audience, regardless of how others viewed them, including their manager Fowley. Author Darra Goldstein said: “A car in 'cherry' condition; virginity as a 'cherry' to lose (a car in the 'cherry state', i.e. 'undamaged' or 'like new'; virginity as a 'cherry', i.e. 'harmlessness' that you can lose) - the exclusively female rock band grabbed this so often the tame, euphemistic term for purity and goodness in the title of their catchy tune about explosive femininity, in which there is no shame for desire and sexuality is normal, so women sing 'Hello world, I'm your wild girl!' (Hello world, I'm your wild girl!) And ask the world to just deal with it. "

Cherry Bomb is a coming-out song in which the singer describes herself as the girl next door , "[that will] have ya, grab ya til you're sore" (that you have and grab until you're sore). In addition, she calls on other young women to do the same: "Get down ladies, you've got nothin 'to lose" (Enjoy it, ladies, you have nothing to lose); not only for their own happiness, but also to bluntly motivate discouraged male subjects of desire to hook up: “Hey, street boy, what's your style? Your dead end dreams don't make you smile ”(Hey, boy on the street, do I meet your taste? All your hopeless dreaming doesn't exactly put a smile on your face). Her sexual availability, indicated by passages like "I'm the fox you've been waiting before" (I'm the hot sweeper you've been waiting for), may have appealed to male listeners in particular, but Currie and The Runaways also nourished them with it The idea that an open expression of their sexuality as a model of female self-assertion could benefit all women, which the audience found appealing and convincing.

In 1976 such texts, which described a female person with sexual self-determination, were considered revolutionary. The chorus shows that this girl has finally discovered the part of herself that her parents and culture previously believed didn't exist. The song's title also suggests that the singer is still a virgin, as it refers to the phrase losing one's cherry , a slang term commonly used to describe a person's first sexual intercourse. With their hymn Cherry Bomb, but also with other titles, The Runaways came "like every parent's nightmare" and pushed the boundaries of the current view of the sexuality of young girls.

During their tours of the United States, Great Britain and Japan, all members of the Runaways received critical scrutiny from the music press, with singer Currie drawing by far the most attention. Band manager Fowley had constructed a seductive aura around the group, in which Currie as Cherry Bomb - the embodiment of "teenage sexuality on the verge of explosion" - played the main character and only in a white corset and black fishnet stockings to underline this image at concerts appeared lightly dressed. Currie was reluctant to accept the role she was assigned at first, but soon took a liking to it. Looking back on their experiences with the Runaways said Currie, "The Bad-Girl- Jailbait - aspect of Kim [Fowleys] big drum has never bothered me, [...] it has been brought to the point. […] I was [incredibly young and] very rebellious at the time, so Cherry Bomb was the perfect song for me. ”“ I knew that wearing a corset on this song would advance the title, and why is it came."

The male-dominated rock press wrote, however, that Cherry Bomb had failed as a "fake joke article number on slut level". Critic Harry Doherty of the music magazine Melody Maker said that the most important quality of the Runaways for marketing is "essentially their promiscuity" and "their talent and potential are grossly overestimated". When at a concert in San Diego young men caught in the audience who masturbated during the band's performance, the media coverage assumed "bizarre excesses", for which Charles M. Young blamed the musicians for this in his editorial in the American music magazine Crawdaddy assigned because from his perspective the band presented "an almost too intrusive, direct sexual challenge" when performing live with songs like Cherry Bomb .

After Currie left the runways after the band's third album in 1977, the status of Cherry Bomb as the band's signature tune became a contentious issue. Her exit was mainly due to the displeasure of the other Runaways about Currie's status as the band's public face, not ultimately because of the cover of the debut album, on which she was shown alone. With his band marketing, which was undoubtedly aimed at the band's sex appeal , Fowley wanted the world to talk about young women and get lecherous men to attend their concerts. To this end, Fowley had arranged a photo opportunity for Currie in her Cherry Bomb outfit in the garden of her house, which Currie remembered: “It was a much more daring shoot than anything an American photographer had ever tried with me before, and I remember feeling uncomfortable with it. ”She thought,“ the photographer will know what he's doing ”until her grandmother interrupted her, yelled at the photographer and attacked him with her stick, causing him to run away. These recordings were published there in a booklet on the occasion of the Japan tour. When the other band members, unaware of the photo session, first saw the slippery pictures in their Tokyo hotel, they were furious, which drove another wedge between Currie and the rest of the band.

After the singer left, Joan Jett, who usually took over the lead vocals, commented: “She saw our group as 'Cherie Currie and her back-up band'. If it had been up to her, the four of us would be sitting here with masks in front of our faces, without anyone knowing who the hell we are. ”The problem wasn't just that Currie was getting too much attention, but that she was too brought with it an image that was not conducive to the band as a whole. One of the reasons The Runaways received a lot of criticism and was often not taken seriously as musicians, Jett named "this whole ' cherry-bomb- with-the-corset thing' by Cherie".

The remaining Runaways struggled to redefine themselves as a band. At one of their concerts in Great Britain at the end of 1977, the performance was interrupted after nine songs, after part of the audience called out “Take off!” And asked the band to take off their clothes. Phil Sutcliffe of the British music magazine Sounds disapproved of such rudeness - the line from "sexy" to "sexism" had been crossed here - and reported that the situation was finally turning into "a certain victory for the band". With the next three songs, the musicians got the audience going again with music that expressed their approval with headbanging and pogo . They gave two more songs as an encore and ended the show without having played the track Cherry Bomb . Joan Jett mischievously apologized to the audience: “I'm sorry, we didn't bring our corsets with us.” Sutcliffe wrote: “… and they were through. No 'Cherry Bomb' ” (… and that's it. No ' Cherry Bomb ').

Under the abusive, exploitative and encroaching management of Kim Fowley, who had started with the recruitment of musicians with what it saw as “ gimmicky marketing potential ” and the title Cherry Bomb , the young artists were quickly burned out . After interpersonal tensions, artistic differences over the musical direction and power struggles within the band as well as a total of five studio albums within three years, The Runaways finally disbanded in April 1979; Exhaustion from constant travel and years of unbridled use of a variety of different drugs such as methaqualone , cocaine and alcohol had contributed to this. In 2017, the author Ann M. Savage looked back: "The talented rockers, who were often ridiculed by the rock music press, which was almost exclusively male-dominated at the time, had a lasting influence on the genre." Most of the band's members pursued further careers as musicians in the entertainment industry.

After the band broke up

Joan Jett re-recorded the song Cherry Bomb with her band The Blackhearts for their 1984 album Glorious Results of a Misspent Youth and added it to the band's repertoire for concerts. In 1993 Jett performed the piece with the band L7 . Jett performed the song for the first time in 24 years with Cherie Currie in 2001 at a live concert in Anaheim , California. When she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015, Jett sang the song, accompanied by Dave Grohl .

Cherie Currie also recorded the song again with her twin sister Marie Currie and released this version in 1997 on the album Messin 'with the Boys . Further versions of the song with Currie's vocals followed in 2003 with The Streetwalkin 'Cheetahs and with Marky Ramone and Wayne Kramer in 2006. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the rock club Whiskey a Go Go in West Hollywood in 2013, Currie and Lita Ford played the song live together with guitarist Slash . In the same year, the two musicians performed the song at the Malibu Music Awards , where Currie received the Rock Legend Award . At the M3 Rock Festival 2014 in Columbia (Maryland) they had another gig together where they performed the title together.

The song is also the template for a large number of cover versions by other artists (see also the info box at the beginning of the article).

The song has also been used in numerous film, television and computer game productions. Already in 1976 it was shown in the film Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway . In 1993 it was used in the 1970s movie Confusion - Summer of the Freaky (original title: Dazed and Confused ). In the 2010 biopic The Runaways , Dakota Fanning starred as Cherie Currie and Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett and performed the song. In the science fiction - action film Guardians of the Galaxy from 2014, the title to the accompaniment of scenes served. The song was also used for the 2018 film A Futile and Stupid Gesture , as well as for the film Fear Street - Part 2: 1978 from 2021.

The version of Joan Jett was heard in the 1992 episode Free Fall of the series Highlander , in which Jett played the immortal Felicia Martins. The song also starred in one episode each of the television series OC, California from 2006, True Blood from 2012, Lucifer from 2017 and The Boys from 2019. Madelaine Petsch , Camila Mendes and Vanessa Morgan sang the song in the fourth season of 2019 Riverdale series .

In the video game Guitar Hero 6: Warriors of Rock , released in 2010, Cherry Bomb can also be replayed. The video game Lollipop Chainsaw from 2012 used the song in the version by Joan Jett.

reception

Author Emily Nyberg wrote in 2015: “ The Runaways sparked a cherry bomb in the rock industry. As one of the first female-only bands, [the band members] were among the [important] pioneers of the rock genre of the 1970s. […] [They] entered the unfamiliar territory [for women] of this genre, which is usually dominated by men. They used their sexuality as a means of making their music accessible to male listeners and appearing 'less threatening', singing songs about female liberation and rebellion to the beat of heavy rock . The Runaways were an undoubtedly subversive band and their music fit into this already rebellious genre. With their international success they succeeded in breaking down the stereotypical patterns that the rock music industry, which did not welcome them immediately, had in store for them. "

According to the author Philip Auslander, Cherry Bomb is a hymn of female independence and sexual aggression, as Suzi Quatro could have written and performed.

Abbi Wynsma, music director of radio station WDBM Impact 88.9 , stated the following in 2021: “[ Cherry Bomb ] is remembered for good reason. It doesn't matter if it's 1976 or 2021, the concept of young women fearlessly expressing who they are and what they want is still being challenged. So it's no surprise that the cry 'Hello world, I'm your wild girl!' (Hello world, I am your wild girl!) Is still extremely powerful and inspiring on those who want to stand up to a patriarchal society every day. "

Cherry Bomb is part of the Rock Song Index: The 7500 Most Important Songs for the Rock and Roll Era listing by Bruce Pollock.

Trivia

As a sign of her bond with Cherrie Bomb , Currie had a cherry designed by her twin sister Marie tattooed on the front of her right shoulder at Sunset Tattoo shortly after joining the band .

Rock singer and guitarist Courtney Love confessed in an interview with music magazine Mojo in 2010 that she stole a single called Cherry Bomb from a record store in Eugene, Oregon , when she was 10 years old .

literature

  • Evelyn McDonnell: Queens of Noise: The Real Story of The Runaways. Hachette Books, 2013, ISBN 0-306-82039-0 .
  • Dave Thompson: Bad Reputation: The Unauthorized Biography of Joan Jett. Backbeat Books, 2011, ISBN 1-61713-077-X .
  • Cherie Currie, Tony O'Neill: Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway. HarperCollins e-books, 2010, ISBN 0-06-199807-9 .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ In order to clarify the constraints for the young men and their attendant helplessness, Young wrote his interpretation of the view of such a 'victim': “I was overcome by the urge to jerk me off and shoot me against the stage wall, from a violent one Knocking my roadie teeth out of my teeth, digging through a thousand crazed teenagers who puked wine and pummeled Quaalude just so I could touch these 16 year old girls' platform boots. ”
    Author Jeffrey Melnick described this post as“ an unprecedented act of rhetorical violence / [rhetorical] masochism ”.

    The English title of the article Teen Lust, Power Chords, Quay lewdness can "Lust Teen, than power chords are translated into the German language, landing site for indecency" with Quay lewdness from the word sound forth and subject to debate also either as a "key role indecency" (from to be key to, [ ˈkiː ]) or as an allusion to the pronunciation of Quaaludes [ ˈkweɪluːds ], the latter being tablets of the Quaalude brand with the drug methaqualone , which were on the scene as an intoxicant in the 1970s found widespread use; Consumers felt luded out ([ ludɪd aʊt ]), as described in Frank Owen: No Speed ​​Limit: The Highs and Lows of Meth. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2013, ISBN 1-46685-309-3 , p. 122.

    In his song Rebel Rebel , Bowie sings about the gender-unspecific person of a “hot young tramp ”, who knows her parents are worried about the perceived irrationality of their child, but also carries a few lines and a handful of 'ludes' (cocaine and quaaludes ) with her; after Marc Spitz: Bowie. A biography. Crown Publishing, New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-307-71699-6 , p. 232. In Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco , frequented by Joan Jett and Cherie Currie when the band was founded, Rebel Rebel ran every half hour (     bowiesongs.com , bowiebible.com ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Cover versions of Cherry Bomb by The Runaways. In: secondhandsongs.com
  2. ↑ Joan Jett and The Blackhearts - Cherry Bomb on YouTube
  3. ↑ Crashland - Cherry Bomb on YouTube
  4. ↑ Cocknoose - Cherry Bomb on YouTube
  5. ↑ Bratmobile - Cherry Bomb on YouTube
  6. ↑ Brooke McCorkle Okazaki: Shonen Knife's Happy Hour: Food, Gender, Rock and Roll. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2021, ISBN 1-50134-796-9 , p. 24.
  7. ↑ Shonen Knife - Cherry Bomb on YouTube
  8. ↑ Jayne County - Cherry Bomb on YouTube
  9. ↑ Steve and The Jerks - Cherry Bomb on YouTube
  10. ↑ Eduardo Rivadavia: Miley Cyrus, 'I Love Rock' n 'Roll' / 'Cherry Bomb' / 'Bad Reputation' - Terrible Classic Rock Covers. In: ultimateclassicrock.com from August 30, 2013.
  11. ↑ Miley Cyrus - Cherry Bomb on YouTube
  12. ↑ Verbal + Yoon cover The Runaways Cherry Bomb on Vimeo
  13. ↑ Moon Violet - Cherry Bomb on YouTube
  14. ↑ The Dandy Warhols - Cherry Bomb on YouTube
  15. ↑ The Lightnin 3 - Cherry Bomb on YouTube
  16. ↑ Scary Cherry and the Bang Bangs - Cherry Bomb on YouTube
  17. ↑ Wannabeastar - Cherry Bomb on YouTube
  18. ↑ Elana Levine: Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television. Duke University Press, 2007, ISBN 0-8223-8977-0 , p. 76.
    Original text: Made up of five teenage girls, the band soon gained notoriety for the trashy lingerie the members wore on-stage as they performed their songs of angry , sex-tinged rebellion.
  19. ↑ a b c d Evelyn McDonnell: Queens of Noise: The Real Story of The Runaways. Hachette UK, 2013, ISBN 0-306-82156-7 , pp. 109, 110.
  20. ↑ Simon Reynolds, Joy Press: The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock 'n' Roll. Harvard University Press, 1996, ISBN 0-674-80273-X , p. 244.
  21. ↑ Ann M. Savage: Women's Rights. Reflections in Popular Culture. ABC-CLIO, 2017, ISBN 1-4408-3943-3 , p. 51.
    Original text 1: "Jett was particularly interested in starting an all-girl band, which at the time was an almost unheard-of proposition."
  22. ^ Ed Christman: Queens of Noise. In: Billboard of April 3, 2010, p. 9.
    Original text: "Peermusic believed in The Runaways at time when an all-female rock band was considered out of the box."
  23. ↑ Evelyn McDonnell: Queens of Noise: The Real Story of The Runaways. Hachette UK, 2013, ISBN 0-306-82156-7 , pp. 109, 110.
    Evelyn McDonnell, Ann Powers: Rock She Wrote: Women Write about Rock, Pop, and Rap. Cooper Square Press, 1999, ISBN 0-8154-1018-2 , p. 285.
    Original text: "Brigitte Bardot of rock 'n' roll"
  24. ↑ a b c d e Ann M. Savage: Women's Rights. Reflections in Popular Culture. ABC-CLIO, 2017, ISBN 1-4408-3943-3 , p. 51.
  25. ↑ Cherie Currie Looks Back On The Runaways' 'Cherry Bomb'. In: blabbermouth.net of July 17, 2019.
  26. ^ A b c Barbara Schultz: Classic Tracks: The Runaways "Cherry Bomb". In: mixonline.com from January 1, 2010.
  27. ↑ Steve Waksman: This Ain't the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk. University of California Press, 2009, ISBN 0-520-25717-0 , p. 136.
  28. ↑ Cherie Currie (The Runaways): Australian Tour Interview. In: australianmusician.com.au of February 21, 2016.
  29. ↑ Emily Nyberg: The Runaways Planted a Cherry Bomb in the Rock Industry. In: St. Olaf College of April 27, 2015.
  30. ↑ Carrie Borzillo-Vrenna: Cherry Bomb: The Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Better Flirt, a Tougher Chick, and a Hotter Girlfriend - and to Living Life Like a Rock Star. Simon and Schuster, 2008, ISBN 1-4169-6407-X , p. 4.
    Steve Waksman: This Ain't the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk. University of California Press, 2009, ISBN 0-520-25717-0 , p. 136.
    Song Backstory… Cherie Currie talks about Cherry Bomb, by The Runaways. In: The Friday Revue with Jacinta Parsons and Brian Nankervis, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, May 22, 2020.
    Cherie Currie Looks Back On The Runaways' 'Cherry Bomb'. In: blabbermouth.net on July 17, 2019.
    Edgeplay: A film about The Runaways (from 0:15:07) on YouTube , 2014, directed by Victory Tischler-Blue.
  31. ↑ Barbara Schultz: Classic Tracks: The Runaways "Cherry Bomb". In: mixonline.com of January 1, 2010.
    Original text: "'There was rock' n 'roll magic there', Fowley says."
  32. ↑ Cherry Bomb by The Runaways. In: songfacts.com
    Originaltext: "Cherry Bomb" is a small explosive device popular with kids, but in the context of this song, it means an underage girl who is lots of trouble - in this case taunting her parents and other adults with suggestions of promiscuity and bad behavior.
  33. ↑ Evelyn McDonnell: Queens of Noise: The Real Story of Yhe Runaways. Hachette UK, 2013, ISBN 0-306-82156-7 , pp. 109, 110.
    Original text: “With its firecracker title playing off Cherie's name, naughtily referencing the slang for hymen, and teasing the arrival of the blond bombshell - Cherry Bomb was tailor-made for Cherie Currie. "
  34. ↑ Marc Spitz, Brendan Mullen: We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of LA Punk. Crown, 2010, ISBN 0-307-56624-2 , p. 49.
    Original text: " Cherry Bomb was written for Cherie so she could strut her stage stuff with the mic."
  35. ↑ Evelyn McDonnell: Queens of Noise: The Real Story of The Runaways. Hachette UK, 2013, ISBN 0-306-82156-7 , pp. 109, 110.
    Original text: And Fowley puts it: “'Cherry Bomb' was named after a firecracker hot bitch who would be up there singing about her own animalism. "
  36. ↑ Chris O'Leary: Rebel Rebel: All the Songs of David Bowie From '64 to '76. John Hunt Publishing, 2015, ISBN 1-78099-713-2 , p. 196.
    Original text: "Their [The Runaways'] Cherrie Bomb would be its [Rebel Rebel's] answer song."
  37. ↑ Steve Waksman: This Ain't the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk. University of California Press, 2009, ISBN 0-520-25717-0 , p. 137.
  38. ↑ Hello World, Welcome the Wild Girls. "Cherry Bomb" by The Runaways. In: WDBM Impact 88.9 of February 11, 2021.
    Original text: “A heavy riff accompanies a steady drum beat throughout the song, leading to a shredding solo by Ford. An accompaniment of moans echo in the background of the solo, really embracing the idea that rock and roll doesn't come from your brain, it comes from your crotch [...]. "
  39. ↑ Cherry Bomb. The Runaways. In: notediscover.com
  40. ↑ Barbara Schultz: Classic Tracks: The Runaways "Cherry Bomb". In: mixonline.com from January 1, 2010.
    Original text: "We were in the B room, which was a remade storeroom," he says. “It was awful. But it wasn't scary. It was the kind of studio you wanted a garage product out of. A lot of young bands go into studios with chandeliers and red-velvet rugs and a receptionist who looks better than they do, and they're terrified. But if you walk into a room where they store stuff, you're not going to be intimidated. You're going to swagger about: 'What a horrible place. Oh, well, we've played a lot of horrible places. This is nothing new '. "
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  42. ↑ The Runaways: Cherry Bomb in the Internet Movie Database (English)
    The Runaways - Cherry Bomb on YouTube
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    Original text: "The group […] had a string of sold out shows partly due to the popularity of the hit song Cherry Bomb ."
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    Original text: “A car in cherry condition, virginity as a cherry to lose - this all-female rock band used the often patronizing euphemism for purity and goodness to write a catchy anthem to explosive womanhood, in which the is no shame in desire and nothing bad about being sexual, there is only a group of women singing 'Hello world, I'm your wild girl!' and demanding that the world deal with it. "
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    Original text: "And she calls on other women to behave likewise, not only in the name of making themselves happy but also to liven up depressed guys whom they may like."
    Steve Waksman: This Ain't the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk. University of California Press, 2009, ISBN 0-520-25717-0 , p. 136.
    Original text: "Currie addresses [...] a street boy to whom she is making none-too-subtle-advances."
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    Original text: “With song titles like Born to Be Bad, I Love Playin 'with Fire, Wasted, and the group's anthem Cherry Bomb, The Runaways came across as every parent's nightmare. "
  58. ↑ Marc Spitz, Brendan Mullen: We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of LA Punk. Crown, 2010, ISBN 0-307-56624-2 , p. 50.
    Original text: "[…] it pushed the limits of what people's idea of ​​young girls' sexuality could be."
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    Steve Waksman: This Ain't the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk. University of California Press, 2009, ISBN 0-520-25717-0 , p. 142.
    Original text: “The bad girl jailbait aspect of Kim's hype never bothered me, to be honest. It was accurate. We were so incredibly young. At the time I was really rebellious… That's why 'Cherry Bomb' was the perfect song for me. "
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    Original text: "I realized wearing a corset for that song was going to propel the song forward, which it did."
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    Original text: "The male-dominated 1970s rock press wrote off the song as 'slutty, manufactured novelty act'."
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    "'Their main asset is most definitely their promiscuity' and 'their talent and potential is wildly exaggerated'."
  64. ^ Charles M. Young: Teen Lust, Power Chords, Quay Lewdness. In: Crawdaddy from October 1976 (→ cover picture ).
    Quoted in: Jeffrey Melnick: Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family. Simon and Schuster, 2018, ISBN 1-6287-2894-9 , p. 91.
    Original text: “Charles M. Young's infamous Crawdaddy article about the group was full of bizarre eruptions including the claim that, playing live, the band made a direct sexual challenge, almost too threatening '. Hearing from the band's choreographer that young men were masturbating at a San Diego gig, Young writes: 'I am overcome with the urge to jack off against the stage, get my teeth kicked out by a vicious roadie, claw my way through a thousand demented teenagers puking wine and luded out of their cerebral cortexes, just so I could touch the platform boot of these 16 year old girls. '"
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    Original text: “If she had her way the four of us would be sitting here with masks over our faces so you couldn't tell who the fuck we were. "
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    Original text: "It was that whole 'Cherry Bomb With The Corset' thing with Cherie."
    Dave Thompson: Bad Reputation: The Unauthorized Biography of Joan Jett. Backbeat Books, 2011, ISBN 1-61713-077-X , p. 97.
  69. ↑ Dave Thompson: Bad Reputation: The Unauthorized Biography of Joan Jett. Backbeat Books, 2011, ISBN 1-61713-077-X , p. 83.
    Original quote: "Tits out for the lads."
    Steve Waksman: This Ain't the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk. University of California Press, 2009, ISBN 0-520-25717-0 , p. 142.
    Original quote: "'Get them off' (referring to their clothes)."
  70. ↑ Dave Thompson: Bad Reputation: The Unauthorized Biography of Joan Jett. Backbeat Books, 2011, ISBN 1-61713-077-X , p. 83.
    Original quote: "I'm sorry, we didn't bring our corsets."
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    Original text 1: "[…] more accurate words to describe Fowley include 'rapist', 'exploiter' and 'abuser'."
    Original text 2: " [...] Fowley used a combination of drugs, emotional manipulation, and physical power to control these young women. His rape of [bass guitarist Jackie] Fox, with numerous others observing, was the fullest expression of his violent abuse of young women. "
    Ann M. Savage: Women's Rights. Reflections in Popular Culture. ABC-CLIO, 2017, ISBN 1-4408-3943-3 , pp. 51, 52.
    Original text 1: "Under the abusive management of Kim Fowley, the young performers burned out quickly [...]."
    Original text 2: "Jackie [ Fox] […] revealed that she had been drugged and raped by Fowley at a New Year's Eve party in 1975. […] [Fox] alleges that many witnessed the assault, including bandmates Jett and Currie. There are disputed accounts of the incident, with Jett and Currie denying being present while others say that there have been rumors about the incident for decades. “
    June Michele Pulliam: Listen to Punk Rock! Exploring a musical genre. ABC-CLIO, 2021, ISBN 1-4408-6573-6 , p. 121.
    Original text: “Fowley, who was credited with inventing the term 'jailbait rock' […], clearly abused his power as The Runaways manager to enrich himself and to rape then sixteen-year-old band member Jackie [Fox] [...] in 1977. "
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    Original text: “[Fowley] saw gimmicky marketing potential in a teenage all-female rock band. "
  73. ↑ Ben Ratliff: Kim Fowley, Rock Producer and Svengali, Dies at 75. In: The New York Times of January 19, 2015.
    Original text: “[Fowley's] chart successes as producer or songwriter […] included […] in 1976, the hard-rock teensploitation anthem 'Cherry Bomb', by The Runaways . "
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    Original text: "Frequently dismissed at the time by the almost exclusively male rock music press, these talented female rockers had a long lasting impact on the genre."
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The Runaways
Joan Jett • Sandy West • Laurie McAllister • Lita Ford
Michael Steele • Cherie Currie • Jackie Fox • Vickie Blue
Studio albums

The Runaways (1976) • The Runaways / Atlanta Rhythm Section - The Runaways / Red Tape (1976) • Queens of Noise (1977) • Waiting for the Night (1977) • And Now… The Runaways (1978)

Live albums

Live in Japan

Soundtracks

Fear Street - Part 2: 1978 • Edgeplay: Film About Runaways • Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway • Confusion - Summer of the Freaky • Highlander (TV series) , an episode • The Runaways

Compilation albums

Wanted (1977) • The Runaways, Legs Diamond (2) - Rock On! (1977) • Rock Heavies (1979) • Rock Legends (1980) • The Runaways With Cherie Currie - Flaming Schoolgirls (1980) • The Runaways Featuring Joan Jett - Mama Weer All Crazee Now (1981) • Joan Jett and the Runaways - I Love Playing with Fire (1982) • The Best of the Runaways (1982) • The Runaways / Queens of Noise (1988) • Neon Angels (1989) • The Runaways (1997) • The Best of the Runaways (2005) • Japanese Singles Collection (2008) • The Mercury Albums Anthology (2010) • Flaming Schoolgirls • Born to be Bad (1991)

Singles

Secrets (1976) • Cherry Bomb (1976) • Blackmail / Cherry Bomb / American Nights / Secrets (1976) • Cherry Bomb / American Nights (1976) • Waitin 'for the Night (1977) • I Love Playin' with Fire (1977 ) • Queens of Noise (1977) • Neon Angels on the Road to Ruin (1977) • Heartbeat (1977) • All Right You Guys (1977) • School Days (1977) • Little Sister (1977) • Midnight Music (1977) • You Drive Me Wild / Rock And Roll (1977) • American Nights (1978) • Mama Weer All Crazee Now (1978) • Right Now / Black Leather (1979)