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Cherie Ann Currie (born November 30, 1959) is an American singer, musician, actress, and artist. Currie was the lead vocalist of The Runaways , a rock band from Los Angeles, in the mid-to-late 1970s.
Cherie Currie left the band on August 9, 1977. Fowley recorded the Runaways' third LP, Waitin' for the Night , at Larrabee Studios the same month, with the band as a four-piece and with Joan Jett on vocals.
Rhythm guitarist/backing vocalist Joan Jett composed the song with Kim Fowley, the band's then-manager.In the documentary Edgeplay: A Film About the Runaways (2005), Fowley and former Runaways lead singer Cherie Currie claimed that "Cherry Bomb" was quickly written just for Currie to audition for the band because the band members could not perform the song she originally chose to sing.
Beauty's Only Skin Deep is the debut solo album by Cherie Currie, recorded during September–October 1977, and released in 1978. Kim Fowley and David Carr co-produced the effort.
Currie was born to Don Currie and actress Marie Harmon. [1] She was raised in Encino with three siblings. Her brother is Don Currie Jr. She has an elder sister, actress Sondra Currie, and a twin sister, Cherie Currie. Marie was the first twin born. [2] Currie and her twin sister were given roles on an episode of My Three Sons at the age of two.
The Runaways is the debut studio album by American rock band the Runaways, was released on March 16, 1976, through Mercury Records. [1]AllMusic has praised the album (especially band members Cherie Currie, Joan Jett and Lita Ford), comparing the band's music to material by Led Zeppelin and Aerosmith.
As Lita, Cherie and Joan argue, overenthusiastic fans break through the window and chase the girls out of the building. Cherie's drug use worsens, until she overdoses in the hotel elevator and is sent to the hospital. Upon arriving back in the United States, Cherie begins to abuse her alcoholic father's painkiller medication.
Reverie is the third full-length studio album by Cherie Currie. [2] [3] Released on iTunes March 16, 2015. [1]Cherie released the CD version of this album June 5, 2015 on her eBay page cheriecurriedirect, 35 years after her previous full-length studio album, 1980's Messin' with the Boys (with her sister Marie Currie).