Joan Jett
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Joan Jett: I Love Rock 'N' Roll (Boardwalk)
Review by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, March 1982
IF ANY OF rock's male marauders (say Triumph, or Rush) opened up an LP with a stop 'n' start thumper about spotting a 17-year-old number ...
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Keep On Running: Joan Jett And The Hollywood Dream
Interview by 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 ...
Joan Jett: Return Of The Jett Girl
Profile and Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, February 1980
HELLO, hello, she's back again! Joan Jett, the Runaway with the solid gold rock 'n' roll heart has returned, bouncing to a Gary Glitter soundtrack ...
Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 1980
AT 21, JOAN Jett is a five-year rock veteran. She was a 15-year-old San Fernando Valley high schooler when L.A. entrepreneur Kim Fowley recruited her ...
Interview by Kris Needs, New York Rocker, June 1980
Ex-Runaway leaves a London Launching pad ...
Joan Jett and the Black Hearts, The Sweat: Marquee, London
Live Review by Ronnie Gurr, Record Mirror, 7 June 1980
CLIVE CULBERTSON, pugnacious bass player/singer with The Sweat leaves a half-full Marquee audience with these words: "We're The Sweat and we're gonna be the biggest ...
Young Marble Giants: Colossal Youth (Rough Trade Import); Joan Jett: Joan Jett (Ariola import)
Review by Byron Coley, New York Rocker, November 1980
"I was sad because I had no cigarettes, then I met a man who had no lungs." — Thomas "Wag" Givan ...
Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 24 December 1980
A STILL SWEATING Joan Jett sits in a dressing room at the Channel after her Saturday gig and tugs on her black skintight pants. "This ...
Live Review by Roy Trakin, Musician, June 1981
TONIGHT, the smoky Rock Lounge is filled with sassy fifteen-year-old teeny-boppers in leather jackets, jeans and black Converse sneakers, looking tough, chewing gum and hanging ...
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts: I Love Rock 'n' Roll (Boardwalk)****
Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 27 February 1982
FORGIVE ME for dragging the old reprobate's moniker into such lively proceedings, but Kim Fowley has at last been vindicated in his endless trumpeting of ...
Joan Jett: I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll
Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, March 1982
JOAN JETT'S first solo album, Bad Reputation, suffered from a number of flaws, I pointed out in my review of the time; listening to it ...
Interview by Toby Goldstein, Musician, March 1982
Joan Jett, explosive rock 'n' roll contact hitter, leads her hordes of Joan clones into a fight to be themselves. ...
Joan Jett: Whomping The Suckers With A Superball
Report and Interview by Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 10 April 1982
"IT'S SO HARD to even think of being famous, of having that responsibility. It's really weird, I mean – me!! – a rockstar! Hey, are ...
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts: I Love Rock And Roll (Epic)
Review by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 24 April 1982
JOAN JETT is 23 years old. She's been in rock and roll for the last 10 years. It shows. ...
Joan Jett: Jett Set for Summer
Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 8 May 1982
Sandy Robertson heralds the second coming of JOAN JETT ...
Interview by Iman Lababedi, Creem, June 1982
The Public's Vindication of an Ex-Runaway ...
Joan Jett: Selling Records Is The Best Revenge
Profile and Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, June 1982
"I LOVE ROCK'N'ROLL" has to be one of the corniest, old hat, lowest-common denominator clichés of all, right? The phrase conjures images of barechested, bluejeaned ...
Report by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 20 November 1982
KENNY LAGUNA and Joan Jett are a real double-act for the funnybone. It's no empty coincidence that their names fit together: JETT-LAG. Like Little and ...
Treading Her Turf — JOAN JETT Gets Some Respect (FINALLY!)
Interview by Toby Goldstein, Creem, July 1983
SUBURBAN RECORDING studios always look the same. They're tucked into inconspicuous blocky gray industrial parks or office buildings or shopping centers — identified by barely ...
Column by John Mendelsohn, Creem, August 1983
IF I NEVER glimpse another Rock 'n' Roll Bad Boy sneering at me on my television screen, trying to impress me with how unashamedly wicked ...
Talking About The Music With Joan Jett
Interview by Jim Farber, Creem, October 1984
LAST YEAR Joan Jett put out an album which went gold and was, by at least one account (mine), one of the most thrilling straight-ahead ...
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts: Glorious Results of a Misspent Youth (Blackheart/MCA)
Review by J.D. Considine, Record, December 1984
IN SOME WAYS, the worst mistake Joan Jett ever made was recording 'I Love Rock 'n' Roll'. Sure, it was a great record, an instant ...
Interview by Mick Sinclair, ZigZag, January 1985
Joan Jett finds Mick Sinclair loves rock'n'roll ...
Kool & The Gang, Joan Jett & the Black Hearts et al: Drive Aid, Radio City Music Hall, New York
Live Review by Toby Goldstein, Creem, July 1986
DRIVE ME WILD ...
Interview by Karen Schlosberg, Creem, October 1986
"YOU PICKED AN interesting time to visit." Michael J. Fox has his tongue planted firmly in cheek as he stands in the backyard of a ...
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts: Up Your Alley (Blackheart/CBS)
Review by Amy Linden, Spin, July 1988
HOW DO I love Joan Jett? Lemme count the ways, 1, 2, 3, 4! ...
Joan Jett: Her Life Was Saved By Rock & Roll
Interview by Richard Gehr, Music & Sound Output, July 1988
IT FIGURES THAT JOAN JETT WOULD BE A BALTIMORE ORIOLES FAN. Like the Orioles, the three-chord rock’n’roll she’s purveyed for more than a decade has ...
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts: Up Your Alley (Blackheart/CBS Associated) ***
Review by Rob Tannenbaum, Rolling Stone, 11 August 1988
THOUGH COARSE stomps like 'Bad Reputation' and 'Cherry Bomb' have established Joan Jett as an eternal teen rebel who loves rock & roll for its ...
Motorcycle Slut With The Mystic Cross: Joan Jett roars up the alley in Singapore
Report and Interview by Gerrie Lim, unpublished, December 1989
JOAN JETT is sitting in a dressing room a long, long way from home, and the perceptible sliver of anxiety in her voice suggests that ...
Joan Jett: The Original Riot Grrrl
Interview by Steven Daly, Rolling Stone, 24 March 1994
Joan Jett lives up to her bad reputation ...
Interview by Evelyn McDonnell, Rolling Stone, 13 November 1997
IN 1976, JOAN Jett was a black-leather-wearing 16-year-old living across the street from Los Angeles' notorious Whisky-a-Go-Go and writing songs like the classic fox anthem ...
Review by Eric Weisbard, The Village Voice, 29 April 2000
IT'S TEMPTING TO imagine that Kenny Laguna invented the lifework he chronicles in the songs and liner notes of Laguna Tunes, that this parade of ...
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Classic Rock, December 2007
The punk-loving former Runaways hellraiser talks about being in the first girl rock band, her fondness for S&M clothes, her blurred sexuality and almost joining ...
What Happened To Angry Female Music Stars?
Comment by Jude Rogers, The Guardian, 25 March 2010
Are there any angry women left in rock and pop? Joan Jett, riot grrrl figurehead Kathleen Hanna and others talk about where it went wrong ...
Joan Jett: I Love Rock And Roll
Interview by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, August 2010
Joan Jett talks to Terry Staunton on the making of the Runaways movie, and life after the band split. ...
Interview by Jenny Valentish, Time Out Melbourne, 9 September 2013
From mumbling at Dave Grohl to yelling at reality TV, it's been an interesting writing process for Joan Jett this time around ...
In the Hot Seat with Larry LeBlanc: Toby Mamis, manager, Alive Enterprises
Interview by Larry LeBlanc, Celebrity Access, 30 August 2018
YOU ARE GOING to have to wait for a film to make much sense of Toby Mamis' fabulously winding career. ...
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