Young women (they were all 16 and 17) simply didn’t form hard rock bands back in the mid-70s and it was tough. The Runaways were pioneers that got scalped. I am going to look at my favourite ten of them. Both Jett and drummer Sandy West had approached Fowley and, recognising like-minded souls, he’d hooked them up.įowley did manage and produce the band (completed by vocalist Cherie Currie, bassist Jackie Fox and guitarist Lita Ford), but Jett was her own Svengali. Patriarchal rock myth tells us that LA producer/scenester/kingmaker Kim Fowley puppet-ed The Runaways into being. The album remains Joans most successful one, having sold ten million copies.
Jett acquired a guitar at 14, moved to California, hung out at Rodney Bingenheimer’s English Disco and waited to be discovered. The title track, a cover of an Arrows song that Joan had performed live for years, became one of the best-selling singles of all time, topped the Billboard charts for seven weeks, and was the third most popular song of 1982. Suzi’s style, attitude and casual appropriation of classic rock’n’roll into an entirely contemporary setting was a concept worth repeating: if Quatro could leather up Elvis and Eddie for a glam audience Joan could certainly ratchet up similar ingredients for the punk era. If there was such a thing as a poster girl for riot grrrl, Jett was it: self-determined, tough, uncompromising, her proudly flaunted ‘bad reputation’ was surely something to aspire to. Besides I Love Rock N Roll, Crimson and Clover and Blues Sommertime There are other tracks on the album are covers: Bits and Pieces did not like that.
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