Young women (they were all 16 and 17) simply didn’t form hard rock bands back in the mid-70s and it was tough. Joan Jett bucked this trend and pursued straight-ahead rock and roll at a time when.
Thats often a compliment but its not here: like so many punk-adjacent albums of the late 70s and early 80s, this one is obsessed with the pop music of the 1960s (which Jett was a little kid for). The Runaways were pioneers that got scalped. Joan Jett was pretty young when she made this record - only 19 or 20 - but it sounds like it was made by someone 10 years her senior. With The Runaways dissolved, Joan Jett s instincts reached out for another band. Both Jett and drummer Sandy West had approached Fowley and, recognising like-minded souls, he’d hooked them up.įowley did manage and produce the band (completed by vocalist Cherie Currie, bassist Jackie Fox and guitarist Lita Ford), but Jett was her own Svengali. Patriarchal rock myth tells us that LA producer/scenester/kingmaker Kim Fowley puppet-ed The Runaways into being.
Jett acquired a guitar at 14, moved to California, hung out at Rodney Bingenheimer’s English Disco and waited to be discovered. Born as Joan Marie Larkin, she is a popular American rock singer, musician, record producer, songwriter and is also recognized for being an occasional actress. Suzi’s style, attitude and casual appropriation of classic rock’n’roll into an entirely contemporary setting was a concept worth repeating: if Quatro could leather up Elvis and Eddie for a glam audience Joan could certainly ratchet up similar ingredients for the punk era. In 1975, San Fernando Valley teen Joan Larkin reinvents herself as Joan Jett, a guitarist who wants to form an all-girl punk band. If there was such a thing as a poster girl for riot grrrl, Jett was it: self-determined, tough, uncompromising, her proudly flaunted ‘bad reputation’ was surely something to aspire to. Joan Jett is an American singer and songwriter who is best known for her cover of I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll.
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