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The Runaways have rightly earned their spot in rock-and-roll history. As one of the first all-female rock bands, they proved to the world that women could rock as hard as men could. While they may have made music history, it came at personal cost. Here is their story.

It's hard to believe when listening to their music, but all of The Runaways were only 15 or 16 when they started the band in the mid-1970s. They were one of the first all-female rock bands and a highly provocative one at that time. The group may have sounded very adult and sang some fairly racy lyrics about lust, drugs, and drinking, but they were still young kids. The '70s was also a time when anything went in rock and roll — and not necessarily for the best.

According to NPR, this time in musical history was when young performers could be far more easily exploited and exposed to much older men's predations. Even The Runaways' lead singer, Cherie Currie, admitted in an interview with Spin that their unsupervised rock-and-roll lifestyle and mostly absent and permissive parents would not have gone over well in today's world. Currie told the outlet,

"I don't think the Runaways could have happened under those circumstances. And our band was a milestone."

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Just teenagers | 0:18
Abusive manager | 1:32
Rampant drug use | 2:57
Member departures | 4:01
Currie got kidnapped | 5:27
Currie's two failed albums | 6:39
Lita Ford's family problems | 8:14
Sandy West died young | 9:37
Kim Fowley died of cancer | 11:15

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