Out Of The Blue (Stepping Out) The break-up of a rock ’n’ roll band can be as heart-wrenching an experience as the end of a marriage, leaving the participants confused, paranoid, and deeply scarred. Especially when the people in question began their relationship young, like high school sweethearts—or, as in the case of the Runaways, teenage reprobates. Ask Lita Ford, a scant 16, still playing hooky with the bad boys, when Kim Fowley invited her to be the guitarist of his R&R, all-girl pop dream, and a veteran of 21 when the bot-

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tom fell out and she returned to the rigors of the real world.

“I went nuts for a year,” Lita recalls at Polygram’s Manhattan offices on the eve of the release of her first solo LP, Out For