JETT POWERED
The opening of I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll – an international smash for Joan Jett & The Blackhearts in 1982, topping the US singles chart for eight weeks – is among rock music’s simplest but most memorable guitar riffs. But uncertainty surrounds the identity of the song’s true composers. Former Runaways guitarist Joan Jett had first heard the song seven years before she had a hit with it, when the London-based US/UK group The Arrows performed it on their TV series Arrows.
In the four decades since Jett all but made her own, many
