10 Best Female Guitarists Of All Time

10. Lita Ford

Playing guitar since the age of 11, Lita Ford had been picked up and recruited into a hugely successful band all by the time she turned 16. Personally picked out by the legendary record producer Kim Fowley to be a member of the equally bad ass all-female band The Runaways in 1975, Lita has been involved with the rock community for over 40 years now.

With Lita conjuring up some seriously impressive riffs, The Runaways would become one of the best epitomes of 1970s rock, always sounding at their best when blowing away huge outside audiences during a booming summer concert.

The Runaways would break up in 1979, but Lita was far from done with rock. Launching with Mercury Records initially, whilst her debut release Out For Blood was something of a mix bag, Lita would really find her flow with its follow up, Dancin' On The Edge. Fire In My Heart broke into the top 10 in countries outside of the US and Gotta Let It Go even made it to number 1 on the Mainstream Rock Charts.

Lita is also exceptionally close with the famous Osbourne family, hiring Sharon Osbourne Management as her management team and collaborating with Ozzy on Close My Eyes Forever in 1988.