Joan Jett top 5 albums
Those with more rock’n’roll in their soul than Joan Jett are few and far between. As the key founding member and creative driving force behind The Runaways and latterly as the instantly recognisable leather-clad leader of the gang in Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, the artist formerly known as Joan Marie Larkin (Jett being her mother’s ludicrously appropriate maiden name) recalibrated the template for women in rock. 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.
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