“When you tell me a girl can’t play rock and roll, you’re not saying a girl can’t master the guitar, you’re saying girls aren’t allowed to play rock and roll because rock is a sexual type of music and being sexual is not allowed for girls.
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"I didn’t know how to make sense of a world that gave girls sh*t for playing guitar. “I was angry," she told Rolling Stone in 2018. By her own admission, she drank too much.īy then she'd gotten over the shyness, finding her voice at the mic and in daily life. They were huge in Japan, playing for Beatlemania-like throngs of screaming young women. Still a teenager, fresh from the glam-freak Hollywood clubs, she made fast friends among England's punk scene, jamming with the Sex Pistols and even recording a few songs (including an early version of "I Love Rock 'n' Roll"). The stories differ as to how the band's rise and fall took place behind the scenes, but after five albums and a series of world tours, it's safe to say that his decisions eventually contributed to the band's implosion.Īll that travelling was a crash education for Jett.
Joan Jett's vision of an all-girl band took a couple years to come together, but the Runaways found each other, and found a manager - though a controversial one, Kim Fowley. She was young, and shy, but so determined to get out there and play that she scoured the parking lot hangouts and teen clubs of Los Angeles looking for other girls like her. At age 13 she asked for an electric guitar for Christmas, and like countless teens before her, subjected her family to hearing the same note over and over until she got it right. Joan Marie Larkin had the fire in her from the start. Above, listen to Alisa Ali's conversation with Dennis Elsas about Joan Jett & the Blackhearts' multi-platinum I Love Rock 'n' Roll, released in November of that year, and below, Laura Fedele’s overview of that release. “ Album ReCue” for Throwback Thursday celebrating 40th anniversaries: 1981 releases chosen by FUV hosts.
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