It was heartfelt and mentally correct.” And at the center was teenage Jett, who’d left for a U.K. As Blondie’s Debbie Harry put it in Bad Reputation, “They were young, they were hot and their music spoke about who they were and their generation. They were a local example of a rebellious young rock ’n’ roll act doing exactly what they wanted, despite enormous opposition. As proof, Alternative Press presents 10 directions in which Joan Jett’s influence has spread. Her influence transcends gender, sexuality and even musical genres. And made it so that future generations would never have to hear that insult again.
She didn’t “play pretty good for a girl.” She played great. Read more: There’s one ’70s punk-rock icon that Anti-Flag all agree is a badass Yes, like the Clash and Blondie, Jett brought punk into the mainstream a good 12 years before Green Day made Dookie. Soon, her mix of glam, punk and bubblegum crashed into the charts via a remake of obscure Brit-glam B-side “ I Love Rock ‘N Roll, ” topping Billboard ’s Hot 100 for seven weeks in 1982. She went solo, backed by the Blackhearts, working clubs up and down the East Coast for three years, selling her first album out the trunk of manager Kenny Laguna’s Cadillac at her shows when no major label would touch her. She had the last laugh after the Runaways disbanded at the tail end of the ‘70s. “Tell me I can’t do something and you’ll make sure I’m gonna be doing it,” she concluded.
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I’ve had my head split open by a beer bottle, a rib cracked by getting a battery thrown at me… Just because I’m a girl.
Instead, for her troubles, she was assigned epithets beginning with the letters S, W and C. “I was so into this idea of girls being able to play rock ’n’ roll.as well as boys will, and would be so cool and sexy because it had never been done,” Jett remarked in the documentary of her founding glam act the Runaways. And Jett demolished more walls than anyone, paving the path every woman with a guitar has traveled since. Read more: 10 essential ‘70s punk bands from Los Angeles you should already know
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