Lita Ford

Lita Ford
Lita Ford
	Ford performing in 2012
Background information
Birth name	Lita Rossana Ford
Born	19 September 1958 (aged 67); London, England
Origin	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Genres	Glam metal; heavy metal; hard rock; punk rock;
Occupation(s)	Musician; singer; songwriter;
Instruments	Guitar; vocals;
Years active	1975–1995; 2008–present;
Labels	Mercury; RCA; JLRG Entertainment; SPV/Steamhammer;
Website	litafordonline.com

Lita Rossana Ford (born 19 September 1958)^[7]^[8] is an English-born guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. She was the lead guitarist for the all-female rock band the Runaways in the late 1970s, and then embarked on a successful glam metal solo career that hit its peak in the late 1980s. The 1989 single "Close My Eyes Forever", a duet with Ozzy Osbourne, remains Ford's most successful song, reaching No. 8 on the US Billboard Hot 100.^[9]

Filmography

Yakety Yak, Take it Back (1991) ... Herself

Lita Ford Media

Ford performing with The Runaways in 1976
Ford performing on December 19, 1988, in the 'Olympiahalle' venue of Munich, West Germany
Ford performing on June 27, 2009
Ford performing with Patrick Kennison

References

↑ Lita Ford BiographyBiography.com. Retrieved 18 May 2014.
↑ McPadden 25 September 2015, Mike. The Hair Metal 100: Ranking the '80s Greatest Glam Bands—The Final 20!. VH1 News. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
↑ Phillips, William. Encyclopedia of heavy metal music (2009). Westport, Connecticut. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-313-34801-3. OCLC 475534546.
↑ Popoff, Martin. The big book of hair metal : the illustrated oral history of heavy metal's debauched decade (2014). Minneapolis, MN. p. 49, 57, 144, 188. ISBN 978-1-62788-375-7. OCLC 891379313.
↑ Weinstein, Deena. Rock'n America : a social and cultural history (2015). Toronto. p. 223. ISBN 978-1-4426-0015-7. OCLC 883939738.
↑ The Runaways - A Punk Rock HistoryPunk77.co.uk. Retrieved 31 October 2011.
↑ "Lita Ford." Contemporary Musicians. Vol. 9. Detroit: Gale, 1993. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 24 August 2011.
↑ "Lita Ford." Almanac of Famous People. Gale, 2011. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 24 August 2011.
↑ Lita Ford. Billboard.com. Retrieved 3 November 2019.

Other websites

Media related to Lita Ford at Wikimedia Commons

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[1] Lita Ford BiographyBiography.com. Retrieved 18 May 2014.

[2] McPadden 25 September 2015, Mike. The Hair Metal 100: Ranking the '80s Greatest Glam Bands—The Final 20!. VH1 News. Retrieved 1 March 2021.

[3] Phillips, William. Encyclopedia of heavy metal music (2009). Westport, Connecticut. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-313-34801-3. OCLC 475534546.

[4] Popoff, Martin. The big book of hair metal : the illustrated oral history of heavy metal's debauched decade (2014). Minneapolis, MN. p. 49, 57, 144, 188. ISBN 978-1-62788-375-7. OCLC 891379313.

[5] Weinstein, Deena. Rock'n America : a social and cultural history (2015). Toronto. p. 223. ISBN 978-1-4426-0015-7. OCLC 883939738.

[6] The Runaways - A Punk Rock HistoryPunk77.co.uk. Retrieved 31 October 2011.

[7] "Lita Ford." Contemporary Musicians. Vol. 9. Detroit: Gale, 1993. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 24 August 2011.

[8] "Lita Ford." Almanac of Famous People. Gale, 2011. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 24 August 2011.

[billboard-9] Lita Ford. Billboard.com. Retrieved 3 November 2019.

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