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Keep On Running: Joan Jett And The Hollywood Dream

Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 31 March 1979

...She decided she had the potential to become a Vocalist... she cut her first demonstration record. The record was sent to several companies and resulted in a contract from Mercury for the 16-year-old girl."
— Excerpt from Lesley Gore bio in Irwin Stambler's Encyclopaedia Of Pop, Rock And Soul.

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