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Joan Jett: The Original Riot Grrrl

Bob Ruggiero, Creative Loafing, 24 September 1994

"YOU'VE CAUGHT ME on a philosophical night," Joan Jett says over the phone in a late-evening interview. The gravelly voice on the other end of the line unmistakably belongs to the woman who will chant 'I Love Rock and Roll' for probably the millionth time during her upcoming concert in Savannah – but still mean it with all the raw passion as if it were the first.

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