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Cherie Currie

Fueled by the glitz and glitter of the glam rock movement that had peaked in the mid 1970s, Cherie Currie and her band The Runaways burst onto the Los Angeles club scene in 1975. Only 15 years old at the time, Currie and her teenage female band mates (including Joan Jett, Sandy West, and Lita Ford) quickly proved to LA that they rocked just as hard as their older male counterparts, and caught the eye of Rodney Bingenheimer. With Bingenheimer’s help, The Runaways fame on the strip expanded worldwide on an international tour before they broke up in 1978.

Cisco Adler

The son of Lou Adler (dubbed “the king of the strip” and owner of the iconic Roxy Theater), Cisco is quite literally a product of the Sunset Strip. Adler has followed in his father’s footsteps as an accomplished producer with his company Banana Beat Records. Prior to Banana Beat, Cisco found fame as frontman of the band Whitestarr but eventually left the band to pursue his own solo projects. Adler can now often be found playing shows at the same theater his father built over 30 years ago.

Mick Fleetwood

The namesake and drummer of Fleetwood Mac, Fleetwood is the one mainstay of the band that saw many members come and go throughout the band’s 40+ year existence. An inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, his band has seen consistent success since the 1970s with numerous platinum records along the way.

While the Pistols only produced one studio album it rocked the establishment to the core, and ignited the punk movement, changing music history forever.

Steve turned up state side after the pistols split and found himself on the Sunset Strip for the first time.

The first time I experienced the Sunset Strip was after… the band broke up in San Francisco, which was ’79, I think, January of ’79 and…I came here for a few… 3 or 4 days after that. And… I met a girl here and… we went, she had a big Cadillac and we got in the Cadillac and we went to a drive in movie and she… she had some weed, I didn’t smoke any of course but, and then we went driving like towards PCH and I just thought it was the best thing in the world, coming from England, you know… where it’s a shithole and you don’t see palm trees, you don’t see anything, everything’s so small and quaint and dull.

Then what few people know, Steve fell into the hair metal scene in the late ’80s.

Yeah… and then flash forward to like… ’85… ’87, ’89… the whole hair thing… happened, all the hair bands… Poisons and you know, Ratt, what have you, 100 of them. And I was actually, I got into that whole scene. I had long hair, I had the Harley Davidson, I was in good shape, and I had a couple of solo albums out. And… now this is pre AIDS, and all the birds looked like strippers, and it was great. You know, I used to park my bike outside the Rainbow on a Friday and Saturday night and literally just sit on the bike, and 10 minutes, there’d be a bird on the back and I’d be off.

Steve now hosts his own radio show Jonesy’s Jukebox on the world famous KROQ and still lives in Los Angeles.

Rodney Bingenheimer

KROQ mainstay Rodney Bingenheimer was there for every memorable event on the Strip over the years. His nostalgia for that special time and place comes from playing kingmaker for dozens of then unkwown bands: The Runaways, Blondie, The Ramones, Social Distortion, Van Halen, Duran Duran, Oasis, The Donnas, No Doubt, The Offspring, and even the Sex Pistols.

Pamela de Barres

Rock and Roll empress and former groupie hall of famer Pamela de Barres has seen it all. Thus she is in a unique position to define what the Sunset Strip really is: A red headed woman.

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Richard Lewis

A comedian’s comedian giving performances at the landmark Comedy Store for decades, Richard Lewis digs into the Sunset Strip with his signature quick wit and philosophical intrigue.

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