Former FEMME FATALE Guitarist Dies Of Heart Attack

According to a posting on Full In Bloom Music, former FEMME FATALE guitarist Bill D'Angelo has passed away due to a heart attack. No further information is currently available.

In a recent interview with Full In Bloom Music, FEMME FATALE frontwoman Lorraine Lewis spoke about the group's brief run in the late '80s and the possibility of a FEMME FATALE reunion. An excerpt from the question-and-answer session follows:

Full In Bloom Music: What was up with the beef between you and Lita Ford? Was there really conflict, or was it generated by the press?

Lorraine: "Lita and I didn't really know each other, but I had always wanted to be friends with her. When the record was going to come out, Concrete Marketing tried to make us rivals and I didn't dig that, but things were already in print and in the hands of the industry... there wasn't a lot I could do to change it so it was what it was. I did meet her eventually when I was hanging out with Vince Neil, she was polite, but no love there."

Full In Bloom Music: Your thoughts on Rikki Rockett [POISON drummer]. You guys seemed to be a "hot item" at one time. Do you still keep in touch?

Lorraine: "Rikki Rockett is a great guy. We had a lot of fun hanging out. He used to ride Harleys with a group of guys that called themselves the Lost Boys. I loved being on the back of his bike! And I have a lot of good memories of the time we spent together. I was pretty infatuated with him. I knew him before his record deal and even posed in a photo with a group of girls in the POISON house backyard by their pool... He was a happy guy with a good fashion sense and even though I haven't talked with him in a while, I still consider him a friend...I know if I really needed him he'd be there. Great memories of Harley rides, and the MTV Awards."

Full In Bloom Music: Any good Vince Neil stories come to mind? What was he like to hang out with?

Lorraine: "Vince was a nice guy too, and really handsome in person. It was all very Hollywood. You know, 'your people contact my people'... The best way to get a date is have a video on MTV... Anyway, we did hang out, I guess you call it dating but he was going through a divorce and things got kind of weird. He did put me on the bill to perform with the Party Ninjas benefit at the Santa Monica Civic.....and I have fun memories at his house, Gladstones, 'Dr. Feelgood', Canada and CHEAP TRICK.... Never mind, I like to keep secrets..."

Read the entire interview at FullInBloomMusic.com.