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Lita Ford
Lita Ford | |
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.jpg) Ford performing in 2023 | |
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| Birth name | Lita Rossana Ford |
| Born | September 19, 1958 London, England[1] |
| Origin | Long Beach, California, U.S. |
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| Formerly of | The Runaways |
| Website | litafordonline |
Lita Rossana Ford (born September 19, 1958)[7][8] is a British-American 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]
- ^ "Lita Ford Biography". Biography.com. Archived from the original on 12 May 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2014.
- ^ McPadden 25 September 2015, Mike. "The Hair Metal 100: Ranking the '80s Greatest Glam Bands—The Final 20!". VH1 News. Archived from the original on 29 June 2022. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Phillips, William (2009). Encyclopedia of heavy metal music. Brian Cogan. Westport, Connecticut. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-313-34801-3. OCLC 475534546.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Popoff, Martin (2014). The big book of hair metal : the illustrated oral history of heavy metal's debauched decade. Minneapolis, MN. pp. 49, 57, 144, 188. ISBN 978-1-62788-375-7. OCLC 891379313.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Weinstein, Deena (2015). Rock'n America : a social and cultural history. Toronto. p. 223. ISBN 978-1-4426-0015-7. OCLC 883939738.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "The Runaways - A Punk Rock History". Punk77.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.
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