Lita/Dangerous Curves

Liner Note Author: Neil Daniels.BGO's 2013 two-fer pairs Lita Ford's biggest album, 1988's Lita, with one of its successors: 1991's Dangerous Curves. Dangerous Curves marks where Ford started to slide back down the charts, but Lita was where the ex-Runaway blew up big time, scoring two major hits with "Kiss Me Deadly" and "Close My Eyes Forever," a duet with Ozzy Osbourne. Mike Chapman, initially known as a bubblegum producer with his partner Nicky Chinn, used what he learned from working with Pat Benatar to create the template for Lita, but he also showed his savviness by enlisting Motörhead's Lemmy Kilmister to co-write the breakneck "Can't Catch Me" and brought in Nikki Sixx to co-write "Falling in and Out of Love." Sixx's presence underscores how, at its heart, Lita is a Sunset Strip record and, years later, it still sounds as if it was stitched together with fishnets, hairspray, synthesizers, locked tremeloes, and high heels. That's not a problem: not only does it embody its era b