Ford was the guitarist for the all-girl punk band The Runaways in the 1970s and had two pop metal hits in the '80s: "Kiss Me Deadly" and "Close My Eyes Forever," a duet with Ozzy Osbourne.
Ford was among the most technically gifted soloists in Eighties hair metal, with a rich tone she could manipulate on her soaring anthems like 1988’s “Kiss Me Deadly.” As a teenager, Ford hung out with guitar gods twice her age on the Sunset Strip, like Ritchie Blackmore, who turned her on to using a home plate-shaped pick to achieve the
Lita Rossana Ford is an English-American guitarist, singer and songwriter. She was the lead guitarist for girl rock group The Runaways in the late 1970s before embarking on a successful solo career in glam metal, culminating in the late 1980s. 1989 single "Close My Eyes Forever", a duet with Ozzy Osbourne, remains Ford's most successful song, reaching number 8 on the US Billboard Hot 100
The official website of legendary rocker Lita Ford. New album Living Like a Runaway available now at iTunes and Amazon. View tour dates, news, Twitter and Facebook Lita Ford's "Girlfriend" takes pictures of her in her undies, and The Runaways were gay. The Verizon Amphitheater in Irvine, where Lita Ford is playing on the “Rock of Ages” tour with Def Cooper is singing about how women bleed from the heart, mind and soul. Several feminist groups protested this song, but it is actually a sympathetic look at domestic abuse. It's a rare song where Cooper doesn't try to shock, but takes the side of the victim. Dick Wagner, who co-wrote the song with Cooper, told us: "It's really a song about IBf6bT. 28416145031516295476459472
