Living Like a Runaway

A “fun, often hilarious” memoir by the queen of heavy metal and Runaways guitarist, packed with “plenty of colorful ’80s rocker stories” ( Philadelphia Inquirer ). Wielding her signature black guitar, Lita Ford shredded stereotypes of female musicians throughout the 1970s and ’80s. Then followed more than a decade of silence and darkness—until rock and roll repaid the debt it owed this pioneer, helped Lita reclaim her soul, and restored the Queen of Metal to her throne. Fearless, revealing, and