![]() ![]() They wanted the album and didn’t feel her protests were justified. PolyGram, Ford’s label at the time, apparently didn’t see things in a sympathetic light. The record would have been a complete disaster if I would have stayed working with them.” They were taking me in the wrong direction. I’ve run into so many bad situations with management, the record label and working with producers who’ve been completely wrong for me. She said: “I don’t even go to clubs anymore. Lita Ford admitted that for most of that year, she deliberately kept a low profile in and around Los Angeles, socially as well as business-wise. In the Februissue of Circus (devoted to the winners of the Rock Awards), it was announced that The Bride Wore Black had “finally squealed to a not-so-quiet halt” in the winter of 1985 (?). One February later, Valentine’s day was bittersweet. Her unconvincing answer is made all the more sympathetic since she would have been blackballed had she come out with the truth that he abused her. A lot of great albums are coming out now: Def Leppard, Scorpions, Judas Priest, Tony Iommi’s album.”Īs for her then pending marriage to the latter Black Sabbath guitarist, Lita stated that it wouldn’t happen for a while because they were both really busy, so they hardly saw each other…what with Iommi’s band based in England while Lita preferred to work in Los Angeles. I think it’s gonna be a great year for hard rock. A lot of good bands and good songs came out, but for the real hard rockers, I think it was kind of a down year.”ġ986 had barely began and Lita was already wistful: “I wanted to release an album at the beginning of 1986, and just start out fresh. Lita hesitantly said: “1985 went a bit weird as far as hard rock & roll. Moira observed that Lita Ford was rather vague about why she didn’t release a record in 1985, alluding to MTV’s rejection of most metal videoclips and radio’s all but total avoidance of headbanging music. According to the journalist, Moira McCormick, the album was slated for a possible late April release. There was a live photo caption which revealed that bassist Gordon Copely was one of her collaborators. Backtracking to 1986, the February issue of Circus revealed that Lita was currently finishing the album. Had it been released after Queensrÿche’s concept album, Operation: Mindcrime (1988), it would have made Lita look like she was following in their path. It was going to be a concept album but it never stood a chance of being released even in the late eighties. The Bride Wore Black could have been Lita Ford’s Back in Black had it been released in 1986 (the most important year in the eighties for metal), but the album never got released for reasons which don’t quite add up.
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