Joan Jett and Sandy West of The Runaways relaxing between recording sessions in 1977.
Pictured here are two co-founding members of the Runaways: Joan Jett, and Sandy West. The Runaways were the first teenage all-girl hard rock band to record and achieve widespread commercial success in the 1970s. It was in 1975 when Sandy West met producer Kim Fowley, who connected her with another young musician, guitarist Joan Jett. The two young girls met up, played through some songs together, and the synergy between them was essentially the inception of what would become the Runaways. They played together for Fowley, who then helped them find musicians Lita Ford and Cherie Currie.
