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Mar 19, 2024 · Joan Jett and Carmen Electra reportedly dated around 2006. Electra is a model, singer, TV personality, and actor who made her name in Hollywood. Much of the details surrounding their relationship remain a mystery. The two were spotted on numerous occasions getting cosy.
- 22 September 1958
- Female
- Joan Marie Larkin
Nov 6, 2020 · A one-on-one with the most bad-ass, big-hearted rock star of all time. Joan Jett’s been up all night. This is the first thing she tells me when I finally speak with her, a moment I’ve been ...
Mar 27, 2024 · published 27 March 2024. How teenage Runaway Joan Jett turned into a grown-up luminary for music with attitude, humanist politics and gender equality. (Image credit: Ron Galella, Ltd via Getty Images) “There’s nothing more threatening than a girl with a guitar,” Joan Jett famously said back in 1999.
- Who Is Joan Jett?
- Early Life
- 'The Runaways'
- 'Queens of Noise'
- Solo Career
- 'Blackheart Records'
- 'Bad Reputation'
- 'Album'
- 'Up Your Alley'
- 'The Hit List,' 'Pure and Simple'
Joan Jett is a singer, songwriter and producer who entered the music business as a teenager in the punk-pop band The Runaways. She went on to become one of the most influential women in rock; recording hits like "I Love Rock 'n' Roll"; founding Blackheart Records and producing Riot Grrrl acts Bikini Kill and L7. Her early career was portrayed in th...
Jett was born Joan Larkin on September 22, 1958, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her passion for music began early, and she received her first guitar at the age of 14. Moving to Southern California, Jett began frequenting a popular youth club known as Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco. There, she found inspiration from the glam rock stars of the d...
Jett started her musical career as a teenager, forming her first serious band, the Runaways. The final line-up included Jett on guitar and vocals, Sandy West on drums, Cherie Currie on lead vocals, Jackie Fox on bass guitar and Lita Ford on guitar. The band was ahead of its time in many ways, with its hard-rock sound emerging during an era when dis...
In 1976, the Runaways released their first self-titled album, which failed to impress critics and music buyers alike. Still, the song "Cherry Bomb," with its rebellious and raw edge, which Jett wrote with friend Kim Fowley, became a punk hit. The following year, the Runaways released their sophomore effort, Queens of Noise, which featured such trac...
Deciding to pursue a solo career, Jett spent some time in England working with Paul Cook and Steve Jones, both former members of the legendary punk band the Sex Pistols. She then returned to Los Angeles where she worked as a producer for the first album of the L.A. punk band the Germs. She also tried acting, appearing in a film based on the story o...
Jett tried to get a record label to distribute her new album, but she was rejected by 23 different companies. Out of frustration, she and Laguna founded Blackheart Records in 1980, making Jett the first female artist to own and have direct control over an independent record company. In making the record, she got help from an unlikely source — rock ...
At first, Jett and Laguna printed and distributed the record themselves, selling copies at Jett's shows. The record then was picked up by Boardwalk Records and re-released as Bad Reputation. Her rock-pop sound, however, didn't quite catch on. Not one to give up, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts put together another album. I Love Rock 'n' Rollbecame a hu...
Building on her newfound fame, Jett released Album in 1983, but it failed to match her earlier success. It featured the top 40 single, "Fake Friends," and a cover of Sly and the Family Stones' hit "Everyday People." Her next effort, 1984's Glorious Results of a Misspent Youth, offered listeners her remake of "Cherry Bomb," but it did not fare well ...
Jett again tried acting with a role in Light of Day with Michael J. Fox. The film failed with critics and at the box office, but she had a minor hit with the theme song, a Bruce Springsteen cover. Just when it looked like her career was in decline, Jett returned to the charts in 1988 with two hits, "I Hate Myself for Loving You" and "Little Liar" f...
In 1990, Jett released a collection of cover songs, The Hit List, which included the minor hit "Dirty Deeds," originally performed by AC/DC. Two more albums followed with little commercial success. She did, however, receive a lot of positive reviews for 1994's Pure and Simple. The title came from her style of music. "Our music is still pure and sim...
Sep 27, 2018 · 67. By Melena Ryzik. Sept. 27, 2018. Joan Jett has worked. That’s one message of “ Bad Reputation ,” a documentary chronicling her 40-plus years in the music business, first as a founder of...
Mar 21, 2022 · Kasey Tyndall reveals the story behind "Jesus and Joan Jett" and shares her playlist of female artists who influence her. #WomensHistoryMonth
