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| | Eye Weekly - Wild thing - 06.21.01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | Cherie Currie's life took a wild turn in 1975, when Suzi Quatro-idolizing baby dyke Joan Jett and huckster/manager Kim Fowley invited her to audition for the quintessential jailbait fantasy band, the Runaways. |
 | | At 16, Currie commanded the stage in white corset and silver platforms, singing, "I can't go back to being straight, I've seen the gutter view." At 17, she left the band with visions of fame as a solo artist, fuelled by coke, Quaaludes, alcohol and stacks of magazines that featured her on the cover. |
 | | Currie describes her life today as "just putting one foot in front of the other" between her career as a woodcarving artist and painter, the occasional acting role, writing songs and producing and playing on recordings by other artists. |
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