You will become a legend.” Lita Ford poses for a portrait in her bedroom at her family’s home in 1976. You will be on the cover of every magazine.

He told her about himself and the band, and said, “I can make you into one of the biggest rock stars in the world. He got her number in Long Beach, Calif., and called her out of the blue. The 36-year-old Fowley - whom she describes as “tall, skeleton-like and looked a bit like Frankenstein but with blue eyes” - was putting together a teenage girl band, and had heard about Ford’s playing. But first, at 16, she was brought into the world of rock ’n’ roll by another man with serious issues, Kim Fowley. “He seemed superhuman, almost godlike.”įord, who began playing guitar at 10 and writes that she mastered Led Zeppelin’s licks by 13, would learn disgusting truths about this god in time. “My life flashed before me as I focused on the guitar player, Tony Iommi,” she writes. She was just six days past her 13th birthday the first time she saw Black Sabbath in concert, and was taken with the godlike figures in shadow on the stage before her, “massive piles of thick, black hair.” Lita Ford was a rarity then, and now - a female solo artist in hard rock, a style of music that enthralled her early on. Jon recovered from puking and Aldo finally made his way into the action, and it turned into girl-on-guy fun at the Broadway Plaza Hotel.” “Richie Sambora is the king of swing, I must say. “Holy s–t,” Ford writes in her new memoir, “ Living Like a Runaway” (Dey Street). The room then turned into a scene from “Caligula.” “Toni hopped off Richie,” Ford writes, “as if to say, ‘Here, Lita. When Ford recorded her 1984 album, “Dancin’ on the Edge,” in New York, Jon Bon Jovi and guitarist Richie Sambora were recording nearby, and would often hang out.Īfter a night out at the club Traxx - with Ford’s best friend Toni and keyboardist Aldo Nova also in tow - Ford brought the crew back to her room at the Broadway Plaza Hotel.įord and Bon Jovi were making out in one bed and Sambora and Toni on another, as Nova “watched, sipping his red wine, as we tried to fit him in, too.” Jon Bon Jovi and Lita Ford in 1990 WireImageĪll the wine got to Bon Jovi, who “began puking in the corner, right on the bedroom carpet.”Īt that point, Toni felt generous. No one lived larger than sexy heavy-metal guitarist and singer Lita Ford.

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