Merry Christmas from The Runaways

Despite their shared affinity for tinsel and fairy lights, glam rock and Christmas rarely seem to intersect in a way that pleases me. Slade’s “Merry Christmas Everybody” ranks very low on my seasonal playlist, and I prefer the Funny Or Die parody of Bing & Bowie to the real thing. Lord knows, there are plenty of Christmas glam options to choose from — Gary Glitter (“Another Rock ‘n’ Roll Christmas”), T. Rex (enough drips and drabs to fill a whole digital EP), Wizzard (“I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day”)—but none of them resonates with me the way this AMAZING Yuletide photo of the post-Cherie Currie Runaways does!!! Read more >