As near an honest bio as it’s possible to get of the infamous all-girl band who helped sex up the 1970s, based on the book ‘Neon Angel’ by Cherie Currie, the one member who did run away.

Sandy West, whose ferocious drumming fuelled the influential all-female 70s US rock band the Runaways, which she co-founded with Joan Jett, has died of lung cancer.