Lita Ford reveals new details about her upcoming album

’80s hard rock icon Lita Ford discussed her eagerly anticipated new studio album in a recent interview with Dawn Osborne of TotalRock. Ford’s forthcoming sequel to “Living Like A Runaway” from 2012 was once again produced and directed by guitarist/guitarist Gary Hoey, who also plays guitar on the album. She was asked if the album has a title yet.

Yes. [Laughs] But I’m trying to wait until we get a record label signed. And so once I do, then I can tell you everything.

And how about a release date?

I don’t know. Soon, I hope. Fingers crossed. We’re working on it.

The album takes a lot from her life.

I had to live it before I could write it. It sounds a little creepy and everything, but it’s pretty cool. It’s a dark fairytale, ala — I don’t know — ala ‘Shrek’. And I love ‘Shrek’. I don’t know if you’re familiar with the ‘Shrek’ movies. I mean, there’s no green people in it or anything like that, and there’s no ogres. Well, I guess there are ogres.

There is a collaboration with Doro Pesch.

It’s waiting to come out,. And I’m dying. It’s so good. It’s not a ballad, and it’s not a fast song. It’s just a really powerful, mid-range song. And it will reduce you to tears.

This is how the song was born…

When I ran into Doro, she was receiving an award in Los Angeles, and she says to me, ‘Lita, we have to do a song together.’ And I said, ‘I’ve got it. I’ve got the title. I know what the title is.’ Because sometimes you just grab titles, and you don’t even know why. It’s just something that sounds amazing. And so I wrote it down in my little book of titles. And soon after that, Doro had came along and she said, ‘Let’s write something.’ And I got the title. So, I went ahead and wrote the song. And Doro did not write the song, but she sure sang the hell out of it. She came out and nailed it. So it was a great honor to work with Doro again.

And another collaboration with Jean Beauvoir.

Jean, he’s like family because we kind of grew up in the punk rock era together, [him] from the Plasmatics and [me] from The Runaways. And sometimes you’re just at the right place at the right time with the right people. And Jean and I wrote this song together. And, yeah, it’s magic. It’s a duet, but it’s produced by Jean, and he just knocked it out of the park. It’s a magic, magic song.