O Curso de Geologia de 85/90 da Universidade de Coimbra escolheu o nome de Geopedrados quando participou na Queima das Fitas.
Ficou a designação, ficaram muitas pessoas com e sobre a capa intemporal deste nome, agora com oportunidade de partilhar as suas ideias, informações e materiais sobre Geologia, Paleontologia, Mineralogia, Vulcanologia/Sismologia, Ambiente, Energia, Biologia, Astronomia, Ensino, Fotografia, Humor, Música, Cultura, Coimbra e AAC, para fins de ensino e educação.
Fox estava preparada para entrar adiantada na Universidade da Califórnia em Los Angeles, para estudar matemática quando surgiu a oportunidade de se juntar à banda de rock The Runaways.
Fox foi "descoberta" dançando no Starwood por Rodney Bingenheimer, o
auto-proclamado "prefeito da Sunset Strip", que a apresentou ao produtor
e empresário Kim Fowley. Ela inicialmente fez uma audição para a posição de guitarrista principal, mas a banda contratou Lita Ford
em vez disso. Algum tempo depois, ela foi chamada de volta e ofereceu a
posição de baixista na banda, que ela aceitou. Fox se juntou as
Runaways em 1975, pouco antes do seu décimo sexto aniversário.
(...)
Em julho de 2015, Fox alegou que ela tinha sido violada por Kim Fowley, no
último dia de 1975, numa festa de Ano Novo depois de uma apresentação
das Runaways num clube de Orange County. Com dezasseis anos na época, Fox teria recebido methaqualone ou Quaaludes de um homem que ela achava que era um roadie
e enquanto estava incapacitada, Fowley alegadamente violou-a em
frente das suas companheiras de banda (Currie, West e Jett; Ford não
estava presente na festa).
Sandy West (Long Beach, California, July 10, 1959 – San Dimas, California, October 21, 2006) was an American singer, drummer and songwriter. She was one of the founding members of the Runaways, the first teenage all-girl hard rock band to record and achieve widespread commercial success in the 1970s.
Early life
Sandy (born Sandy Pesavento) was born in Long Beach, California.
When she was 9 years old, her grandfather bought her a drum kit, and
being an avid fan of rock and roll acts of the 1960s and 1970s, she
began practicing rock music immediately and regularly. In 4th, 5th, and
6th grade, she was the drummer in the Prisk Elementary School orchestra.
She proved to have a natural talent and quickly became a proficient
drummer.
By the age of 13, she was the only girl in local bands who played
at teenage parties. West attended Edison High school in Huntington
Beach California with actor Willie Aames, playing drums in school bands
as Sandy Pesavento, one of those bands was Witchcraft that featured
Jimmy "Trash" Decker that later went on to form the punk band The Crowd
in 1977.
Driven
by her ambition to play professionally, she sought out fellow musicians
and other industry contacts in southern California with the idea of
forming an all-woman rock band. In 1975, she met producer Kim Fowley, who gave her the phone number of another young musician in the area, guitarist Joan Jett.
Joan and Sandy met shortly thereafter. The women subsequently played
for Fowley, who agreed to help them find other female musicians to round
out the band, most notably Lita Ford and Cherie Currie.
Post-Runaways years
After
four years of recording and touring the world, the Runaways disbanded
in April 1979. West made varied attempts to continue her career as a
professional musician, playing with other acts in southern California,
releasing a solo ep, The Beat is Back,
and forming the Sandy West Band. None of these ventures produced
significant income, so West was forced to spend most of her
post-Runaways years working outside music. West later claimed that
ex-Runaways' manager/producer Kim Fowley had not paid the members of the
band what they were entitled to. "I owe him my introduction to the
music business but he's also the reason I'm broke now," West said.
West appeared in Edgeplay: A Film About the Runaways, a documentary about the Runaways produced and directed by the band's former bassist Victory Tischler-Blue,
providing some of the more poignant interview segments, describing the
things she had to do post-Runaways for money. She worked mostly in
construction, and spent a small amount of time as a bartender and a
veterinary assistant.
In other parts of the Edgeplay interviews, she alludes to having
engaged in criminal activity in order to make ends meet (e.g., she
describes how she had to break someone's arm for money they owed). West
spent time in jail on multiple occasions following her career in the
Runaways, which she alluded to in Edgeplay.
Personal life and death
According to her bandmate Lita Ford, West was lesbian. West died on October 21, 2006, at the age of 47, from lung cancer diagnosed a year before. West was never married and had no children.
Ela é conhecida mundialmente principalmente pela canção "I Love Rock 'n Roll", que ficou no 1º lugar da Billboard
de 30 de março até 1 de maio de 1982, além de ser considerada
pela Billboard a 28ª melhor música de todos os tempos. Também é
conhecida por outros hits, como "Bad Reputation",
"I Hate Myself For Loving You", "Crimson and Clover", "Little Liar",
"Do You Wanna Touch Me", "Light of Day", "Love is All Around" e
"Everyday People".
Lita nasceu em Londres mas tem ascendência italiana. Ela mudou-se, com a família, para os Estados Unidos, ainda em criança. Lita juntou-se à banda feminina The Runaways aos 16 anos de idade e, após o término do grupo em 1979, iniciou a sua carreira a solo. Os seus dois primeiros álbuns tiveram um sucesso bastante discreto.
Sandy West (Long Beach, California, July 10, 1959 – San Dimas, California, October 21, 2006) was an American singer, drummer and songwriter. She was one of the founding members of the Runaways, the first teenage all-girl hard rock band to record and achieve widespread commercial success in the 1970s.
(...)
According to her bandmate Lita Ford, West was lesbian. West died on October 21, 2006, at the age of 47 from lung cancer diagnosed a year before. West was never married and had no children.
Ela é conhecida mundialmente principalmente pela canção "I Love Rock 'n Roll", que ficou no 1º lugar da Billboard
de 30 de março até 1 de maio de 1982, além de ser considerada
pela Billboard a 28ª melhor música de todos os tempos. Também é
conhecida por outros hits, como "Bad Reputation",
"I Hate Myself For Loving You", "Crimson and Clover", "Little Liar",
"Do You Wanna Touch Me", "Light of Day", "Love is All Around" e
"Everyday People".
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