Interviewer: Keith Valcourt

In 1975, Cherie Currie was an average music-loving 15-year-old Valley Girl sneaking into clubs on L.A.’s Sunset Strip. Then fate (and Joan Jett) changed her life forever. Under the twisted guidance of producer Kim Fowley, Currie became lead singer of the all-female group the Runaways. The underage band—which also featured Jett, Lita Ford, Jackie Fox...

She’s the “Cherry Pie” girl from the Warrant music video, the blonde on roller skates who haunted the wet dreams of the MTV Generation. She dated a who’s who of rock royalty, including Tommy Lee, Dave Navarro and Matthew Nelson—and married Jani Lane. By some miracle, she survived—and she’s as smoking-hot as ever. The unsinkable...

In March 5, 1982, the comic genius of John Belushi was forever silenced. The then 33- year old actor—an original cast member of Saturday Night Live who went on to star in the hit movies National Lampoon’s Animal House and The Blues Brothers—overdosed on a “speedball” (a combination of heroin and cocaine) at Hollywood’s landmark...