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Title: Lita Ford, The Runaways
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Musgrove, Dean
Date Created and/or Issued: 1978
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.; Photograph included in the Exhibit: From Pop to the Pit, The LAPL Photo Collection Celebrates the L.A. Music Scene, 1978-1989.
While they never achieved major commercial success during their tenure together, The Runaways played to sold out venues all over Los Angeles in the 1970s and headlined shows with such bands as Van Halen, Cheap Trick and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers as the opening acts.
Photograph caption dated December 28, 1978 reads, "Lead guitarist Lita Ford."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 13 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00121786
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box Musical Groups--Runaways
CARL0005343114
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/34063
Subject: Ford, Lita
Runaways (Musical group)
Guitarists--United States
Women rock musicians--United States
Rock musicians--United States
Guitars
Rock groups--United States
Women--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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