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Hot Rock

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Rock women were hotter 40/50 years ago. The high-waisted bellbottom jeans. The knit tops. The halter. The short-shorts. They were more slender. The rebel, the wild child, who knew what she was capable of? I’ll put the names at the bottom. I think the music was better too. The hair, the attitude. Simply put: The Cool Factor

Music - Blondie

Mariska Veres – Shocking Blue

Agnetha Fältskog – ABBA

Debbie Harry – Blondie

Annabelle Lwin – Bow Wow Wow

Belinda Carlisle – Go-Go’s

Belinda Carlisle

Cindy Wilson – B-52’s

Cherie Currie – Runaways

Mariska Veres

Susanna Hoffs – Bangles

Robin Lamont – solo

Victoria Beckham – Spice Girls

Marie Osmond (the Mormonic Goddess)

The Runaways

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The Runaways in 1976 – Joan Jett, Cherie Currie, Lita Ford, Sandy West, Jackie Fox,

1976, what a time to be alive eh? I was listening to Guess Who, BTO, Grand Funk and the Beach Boys. My musical tastes were soooooo bad…. oh well. A couple of years ago I “discovered” Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. That’s when I found out about her earlier group the Runaways. I saw a real cool picture of them from 1976 and looked up more. Look at those 5 women, people were skinnier back then. Hotter I would say. And those high-waisted bell bottoms, wow.

As one writer put it, “I doubt if the guys lining up around the block to see Cherie Currie in her undies were influenced by the nuances of the feminine mystique.” What’s interesting about that was Currie had an identical twin sister named Marie. Lightening struck twice so to speak. Hooey. Unbeknownst to the public back then I’m sure was the specifics on the same-sex attractions within the band. It never would have occurred to me back then. They were packing heat.