Jackie Fox
Encyclopedia
Jacqueline Louise Fuchs is an entertainment attorney in Los Angeles, CA. Under her former stage name of Jackie Fox, she was best known as bassist
for the teenage, American
all-girl rock
band
, The Runaways
. She is the sister of Carol Fuchs and sister-in-law of Castle-Rock Entertainment co-founder, Martin Shafer.
to bass
. A merit scholar, Fox was set for an early entry to UCLA
to study mathematics
when the opportunity to join the fledgling rock band arose. Fox was "discovered" dancing at the Starwood nightclub
by Rodney Bingenheimer
, the self-proclaimed 'mayor of the Sunset Strip
,' who introduced her to Kim Fowley as the band was on a search for a singer and bass player to replace Peggy Foster
.
Fox played with the band on the second studio
album
Queens of Noise
but not on the band's debut album. According to multiple sources including Cherie Currie (in her memoir Neon Angel), the liner notes of the Raven Records release of The Runaways, and Fox herself, Blondie bassist Nigel Harrison played bass on the first album due to manager Kim Fowley
refusing to let Fox play on the record.
She also appears on the Live in Japan album, and on Flaming Schoolgirls
, which contains outtakes from the Queens of Noise
recording sessions, and appears on the compilation album
s, Neon Angels and Best of the Runaways. She played with the band on two tours of the U.S.
, one UK
tour during which three band members were arrested, and the Japan
ese tour during which the band's live album was recorded. She left the band near the end of that tour.
Fox refused to give the rights for her to be portrayed in the 2010 film The Runaways
. Instead, the bass player for the band is a fictional character named Robin portrayed by Alia Shawkat
.
' firewalking seminars, and most recently as an entertainment attorney in the motion picture and television arena, representing actors, writers, directors, authors and producers. Fuchs received her B.A., summa cum laude
, from UCLA in Linguistics
and Italian
, with a specialization in computing, and her J.D.
from Harvard
, where she was a classmate of future President
Barack Obama
. She speaks Italian and French
, as well as conversational Greek
and Spanish
. She has written a script called "Delilah's Scissors" with Victory Tischler-Blue and appeared in Edgeplay: A film about The Runaways
, Tischler-Blue's 2005 documentary about the Runaways. Fuchs has also written for the Huffington Post blog, although she has had no entries on that site since May 2009.
She was a contestant(the one who asked the questions) on the Dating Game circa 1980.
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
for the teenage, American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
all-girl rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
band
Musical ensemble
A musical ensemble is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles or wind ensembles...
, The Runaways
The Runaways
The Runaways were an American all-girl rock band that recorded and performed in the second half of the 1970s. The band released four studio albums and one live set during its run. Among its best known songs: "Cherry Bomb", "Queens of Noise", "Neon Angels On the Road to Ruin", "California Paradise"...
. She is the sister of Carol Fuchs and sister-in-law of Castle-Rock Entertainment co-founder, Martin Shafer.
The Runaways
Fox joined The Runaways shortly before her sixteenth birthday in 1975, making the switch from guitarGuitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
to bass
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
. A merit scholar, Fox was set for an early entry to UCLA
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...
to study mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
when the opportunity to join the fledgling rock band arose. Fox was "discovered" dancing at the Starwood nightclub
Nightclub
A nightclub is an entertainment venue which usually operates late into the night...
by Rodney Bingenheimer
Rodney Bingenheimer
Rodney Bingenheimer, born December 15, 1947, is a radio disc jockey on the long-running Los Angeles rock station KROQ who is notable for helping numerous iconic bands become successful in the American market. His contribution to the music business has been described as important...
, the self-proclaimed 'mayor of the Sunset Strip
Sunset Strip
The Sunset Strip is the name given to the mile-and-a-half stretch of Sunset Boulevard that passes through West Hollywood, California. It extends from West Hollywood's eastern border with Hollywood at Harper Avenue, to its western border with Beverly Hills at Sierra Drive...
,' who introduced her to Kim Fowley as the band was on a search for a singer and bass player to replace Peggy Foster
Peggy Foster
Peggy Foster is an American bass player.Peggy Foster played bass in The Runaways for a short time. She then played fretless bass on 2 of Steve Vai's albums, was sponsored by Travis Bean Guitars, did studio work and tours with numerous groups, and appeared in videos and several movies...
.
Fox played with the band on the second studio
Recording studio
A recording studio is a facility for sound recording and mixing. Ideally both the recording and monitoring spaces are specially designed by an acoustician to achieve optimum acoustic properties...
album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
Queens of Noise
Queens of Noise
Queens of Noise is the second studio album by the American rock band The Runaways, released in 1977. The album has been called "a pop-metal pinnacle" and the band's "outstanding sophomore effort"....
but not on the band's debut album. According to multiple sources including Cherie Currie (in her memoir Neon Angel), the liner notes of the Raven Records release of The Runaways, and Fox herself, Blondie bassist Nigel Harrison played bass on the first album due to manager Kim Fowley
Kim Fowley
Kim Vincent Fowley is an American record producer, impresario, songwriter, musician, film maker, and radio actor. He is best known for his role behind a string of novelty and cult rock pop singles in the 1960s, and for managing The Runaways in the 1970s...
refusing to let Fox play on the record.
She also appears on the Live in Japan album, and on Flaming Schoolgirls
Flaming Schoolgirls
Flaming Schoolgirls is the all-female rock band The Runaways' fifth and last studio album, released in 1980. The album is composed of unreleased material from the Queens of Noise sessions along with four leftover tracks from the 1977 Live in Japan album.-Track listing:# "Intro" - # "Strawberry...
, which contains outtakes from the Queens of Noise
Queens of Noise
Queens of Noise is the second studio album by the American rock band The Runaways, released in 1977. The album has been called "a pop-metal pinnacle" and the band's "outstanding sophomore effort"....
recording sessions, and appears on the compilation album
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
s, Neon Angels and Best of the Runaways. She played with the band on two tours of the U.S.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, one UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
tour during which three band members were arrested, and the Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese tour during which the band's live album was recorded. She left the band near the end of that tour.
Fox refused to give the rights for her to be portrayed in the 2010 film The Runaways
The Runaways (film)
The Runaways is a 2010 American biographical film about the 1970s all-girl rock band of the same name. The film was written and directed by Floria Sigismondi, who based the screenplay on the book Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway by the band's original lead vocalist Cherie Currie...
. Instead, the bass player for the band is a fictional character named Robin portrayed by Alia Shawkat
Alia Shawkat
Alia Martine Shawkat is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Maeby Fünke in the Fox series Arrested Development.- Personal life :...
.
After the Runaways
Since leaving the Runaways, Fuchs has held a variety of jobs, most notably as a record promotions executive, as a modeling agent, as the promoter of Tony RobbinsTony Robbins
Anthony "Tony" Robbins is an American self-help author and motivational speaker. He became well known through his infomercials and self-help books, Unlimited Power: The New Science Of Personal Achievement and Awaken The Giant Within...
' firewalking seminars, and most recently as an entertainment attorney in the motion picture and television arena, representing actors, writers, directors, authors and producers. Fuchs received her B.A., summa cum laude
Latin honors
Latin honors are Latin phrases used to indicate the level of academic distinction with which an academic degree was earned. This system is primarily used in the United States, Canada, and in many countries of continental Europe, though some institutions also use the English translation of these...
, from UCLA in Linguistics
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
and Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
, with a specialization in computing, and her J.D.
Juris Doctor
Juris Doctor is a professional doctorate and first professional graduate degree in law.The degree was first awarded by Harvard University in the United States in the late 19th century and was created as a modern version of the old European doctor of law degree Juris Doctor (see etymology and...
from Harvard
Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it is the oldest continually-operating law school in the United States and is home to the largest academic law library in the world. The school is routinely ranked by the U.S...
, where she was a classmate of future President
President of the United States
The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...
. She speaks Italian and French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
, as well as conversational Greek
Greek language
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
and Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
. She has written a script called "Delilah's Scissors" with Victory Tischler-Blue and appeared in Edgeplay: A film about The Runaways
Edgeplay: A film about The Runaways
Edgeplay: A film about The Runaways is a 2005 documentary that was produced and directed by former Runaways bassist Victory Tischler-Blue. Edgeplay chronicles the history of the all-teenage-girl rock band The Runaways, whose members included future rock stars Lita Ford and Joan Jett.Kim Fowley, the...
, Tischler-Blue's 2005 documentary about the Runaways. Fuchs has also written for the Huffington Post blog, although she has had no entries on that site since May 2009.
She was a contestant(the one who asked the questions) on the Dating Game circa 1980.
Albums by the Runaways
- The RunawaysThe Runaways (album)The Runaways is the debut album by the American all-female rock band The Runaways, released in 1976.Website Allmusic has praised the record , comparing the band's music to material by Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith and Guns N' Roses.According to multiple sources including Cherie Currie , the...
(August 1976) - Queens of NoiseQueens of NoiseQueens of Noise is the second studio album by the American rock band The Runaways, released in 1977. The album has been called "a pop-metal pinnacle" and the band's "outstanding sophomore effort"....
(1977) - Live in JapanLive in Japan (The Runaways album)Live in Japan is a 1977 live album from The Runaways. The album was never domestically released in the United States, although it was issued in Canada.- A Side :# "Queens of Noise" — 3:19...
(1977)
External links
- Jackie Fuchs at the Huffington Post
- Jackie Fox's Runaways site
- Blog of Jackie Fox's Runaways essays
- "Why Barack Obama Reminds Me of Joan Jett" – a 2008 Huffington Post entry in which she discusses her impressions of Obama in law school