“Rock and roll is basically a man’s world,” guitarist and vocalist Lita Ford explained in People. “You have to play, sing and shake your ass onstage--and not be afraid to let your make-up run.” Once a bandmate of Joan Jett in the 1970s all-female rock band the Runaways, Ford has led her own band––besides her, all men––since 1983. She was the first woman to appear on the cover of Hit Parader after the publication became a heavy metal magazine, and was the first woman in two decades to be inducted into Circus magazine’s Hall of Fame. Winner of several Best Female Performer magazine polls, including Metal Edge and Guitar, she is considered the foremost female guitarist in the macho world of heavy metal. Karen Schoemer surmised in the New York Times that Hard Rock Queen Lita Ford survives “the male-dominated metal world by simultaneously fulfilling the stereotypes of both sexes.”