I dyed my hair myself most of the time, mainly just for convenience’s sake. So I was willing to totally sacrifice everything to prove that was not true.ĭid you cut and dye your hair yourself on tour in those early years? Oh yeah. “Rock ’n’ roll is sexual, and girls aren’t allowed to do that”-that just burned me to no end. I was very against American society telling me what I could be as a woman. What I was rebelling against wasn’t my parents, it wasn’t school, it wasn’t the government-all the things people normally rebel against. My mother was one of the people who drove me to Hollywood to go to Rodney’s English Disco, and she would pick me up later, you know? She wanted me to have that sort of experience and not just be stuck at home. What did your parents make of all this? I was still living in my mother’s house in the Valley in the early Runaways. It was definitely a transformational trip. And I saw a Clash concert, so it was the first time I experienced what was called pogoing-2,000 people all jumping up and down at the same time. In high school, I was getting howled at-very lightweight bullying, maybe because they were afraid -but stuff like “Diamond Dog,” “David Bowie.” My first trip to England with the Runaways really changed a lot of things for me because I saw all the kids totally dress in that early ’75–’76 punk stuff, with Malcolm McLaren’s Sex shop. I was looking for a way to have my own look. Those were all bands I was listening to, so I sort of went with that. Bowie had a wacky shag there for a minute, and a lot of the band the Sweet had shag haircuts. She was wearing black leather, and she had a shag haircut. Rex and Suzi Quatro, who was having hits at the time. Also, I was a big British glitter-music fan, so that means Bowie and T.
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I’ll tell you, a big influence on my style was the movie Cabaret-that sort of decadent, heavy-makeup, ’20s flapper-girl vibe. Who was your hair inspiration in those days? Did you have pictures pinned to your wall or rockers you wanted to emulate? Definitely. Cherie was platinum blonde, and I just thought it would be fun to be the opposite. My hair was sort of brown with some highlights in it, and I was wearing black leather at the time. it was early Runaways, probably December of ’75, so the five of us were together. When did you do that definitive dye job? Well, I was in L.A.
In Bad Reputation, we see family photos of you with medium-brown hair.
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