David Bowie was always a big one and today I'm kind of locked in. Who is the style icon for someone who is a style icon in her own right? Who inspired you most, then and now? Then, it was fellow musicians that I always looked to. Which, no doubt will consist of a killer leather jacket, a T-shirt, and jeans. ![]() Maybe you just bought your ticket to Joan’s upcoming Madison Square Garden concert and tucked it into the frame of your full-length mirror, as subtle inspiration for all your outfits between now and then. Or, confess, maybe you first heard her via Kristen Stewart’s dead-on portrayal in the movie based on the Runaways (which Jett executive-produced), alongside Dakota Fanning as Cherie Currie and opposite Michael Shannon as the diabolical (and recently much maligned) band manager, Kim Fowley. I’m a nice person.Maybe you came to Joan Jett as I first did-were you also once a kid in a T-shirt and faded jeans, roller-skating at the local rink over a disco ball–lit floor to endless put-another-dime-in-the-jukebox-baby repeats of “I Love Rock N’ Roll”? Or like late-teens fan me, singing along to “Cherry Bomb” in a thrifted seventies shirt and ripped, toughed-up jeans-in some far-off mimicry of Jett’s own teenage Runaways guitar-playing self, touring with the Ramones, producing the Germs album, playing wildly sold-out shows around the world? "Sometimes my image gives people the sense that I might be mean but I’m not," says Jett. However, she feels her tough but cool exterior can be misleading. Jett developed her own style blending British glitter rock sing-along choruses and gang vocals with a punk rock vibe and attitude. They weren’t into it so I held onto it and tried it one day." "But, we had actually recorded Lou Reed’s ‘Rock & Roll’ on our first album so we didn’t want to do another song immediately with ‘rock & roll’ in the title. Originally, I thought it might be really cool for The Runaways to cover," recalls Jett. It sounded like a hit to me but it wasn’t one. "It was a song by a band called the Arrows, which was their b-side. The title track topped the Billboard charts for seven weeks. I don’t trust anybody but Kenny."Īlthough she initially made some noise with her debut record, "Bad Reputation," it was Jett’s sophomore album, "I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll" that catapulted her into stardom. There’s no formula for how it works but a lot of it has to do with trust. "We just want to put out good music and be on the road for as long as we can. But, we are a team working for the same thing," says Jett. "We are different in some ways and alike in other ways. Together they formed the Blackhearts band and launched a solo career for Jett. Laguna moved Jett to LI where their base of operations was. We hit it off right away like best friends - really good vibes." "My manager talked to Kenny about coming to Los Angeles and writing these songs with me. ![]() We needed to write eight songs in six days," says Jett. "I was legally signed to a project for The Runaways about writing songs for a movie. At the time, The Runaways were breaking up but she still had commitments to fulfill. when she developed a musical partnership with Kenny Laguna of Long Beach, who became her manager/producer/keyboardist. ![]() By clicking Sign up, you agree to our privacy policy.
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