Joan and Kim Fowley wrote most of the Runaways’ songs, including the famous "Cherry Bomb." In 2010, Joan explained to The Irish Times, "We wanted to be The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin … We wanted to play dirty, sweaty, sexy rock ‘n’ roll, so when people told us girls couldn’t play, that wasn’t want they meant. The Runaways’ official lineup consisted of Joan, Sandy, lead guitarist Lita Ford, bassist Jackie Fox, and lead singer Cherie Currie. Fowley introduced them to other musicians, seemingly with the intention of putting together a band of teenage girls, although he claimed in Edgeplay: A Film About the Runaways: "I didn’t put the Runaways together, I had an idea, they had ideas, we all met, there was combustion, and out of five different versions of that group came the five girls who were the ones that people liked." The Runaways: "dirty, sweaty, sexy rock ‘n’ roll"
She met drummer Sandy West at Rodney Bingenheimer’s via producer Kim Fowley. I realised that if I wanted to do that, there were probably other girls like me who probably wanted to do it too." "What Suzi Quatro did for me was make me realise that girls could be successful playing rock and roll. Her family soon moved to West Covina, California, and, as recounted to Rolling Stone, she started going to Rodney Bingenheimer’s English Disco, the "all-ages glam-rock club" on Sunset Boulevard where the crowd was "the equivalent of social-media stars." She changed her last name to Jett and modeled her now-famous look of black leather, black eyeliner, and a black shag haircut after American rocker Suzi Quatro, who inspired her musically as well as aesthetically. Luckily, Joan didn’t listen and kept rocking. She asked for and received her first guitar for Christmas when she was 13 years old and was told at her first lesson that "girls can’t play rock and roll," according to the 2018 documentary Bad Reputation. Joan Jett was born Joan Marie Larkin on September 22, 1958, in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. The influence and ubiquity of songs like "I Love Rock and Roll" and "Bad Reputation" would be enough to keep her memorable, but we know and admire her for so much more. But none of this stopped her.īlackheart Records, the label she founded to distribute her own music when no one else would do it, continues to this day, and all of the ups and downs that come from over 40 years of living and working as a Queer woman in a business built around, by, and for male heterosexuality have seemingly made her stronger and more resilient. Her first solo album was rejected by 23 record labels. Her first band was subjected to sexist and violent treatment from audiences who weren’t ready to accept women as rock stars with just as much bravado and as many chops as men. Her first music teacher told her that girls couldn’t play rock and roll. Joan Jett has been railing against assumptions for her entire life.
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