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Sunday, November 8, 2026

Cherie Currie

The Cleopatra Sessions

(Cleopatra)

As always, Cherie's brash assertiveness has you and grabs you, until you're sore. And studio cohorts named Ramone, Chrome, Kramer, and Derringer topple mountains. But absent -- unavoidably, though no less dispiritingly -- is the jabbing-tongue, dance-on-switchblade-edge rumbustiousness that made Runaways '76 a livewire proposition. (The fuck-you reinvention of "I Got You Babe" does sideswipe teen midnight memories.)

Recommended: "Cherry Bomb," "I Can See You," "Leader of the Pack," "I Got You Babe"

Videos: "I Can See You" "I Got You Babe"