In 2005, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of her recording company, Joan Jett played at Webster Hall and sold out the show. Over the years, while the members of the Blackhearts changed, the band continued to play. After she founded her own recording company, she began producing for names like Bikini Kill and Circus Lupus, who helped fuel the entire Riot Grrrl movement of the 90s. With the help of the newly formed band, the Blackhearts began playing gigs up and down the West Coast.īy 1993, Joan Jett had gone from the queen of punk rock music to a queen of the rock music industry. With limited funds and the help of some friends, Joan threw together an advertisement that was posted in the LA Weekly, looking for three men to perform with her.
But it wasn’t until the early 80s that she decided to form her own band, the Blackhearts. In the 1980s, Joan Jett was not new to the rock industry, in fact she was well known for her work with the Sex Pistols. In 1982, her song hit number three on the billboards.įrom then Joan Jett’s 80s career took off, and she became one of the 80s musicians that we still look back on fondly today. I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll became an instant success, and Joan Jett skyrocketed up the charts. That was, until 1981 when a budding young rock musician by the name of Joan Jett recorded a cover version of the song and entitled her first album after it.
In fact even if you weren’t alive in the 1980s, chances are you will recognize her music when you hear it.īack in 1975, a British band by the name of “The Arrows” recorded a song that was considered by many in the industry to be a flop. Joan Jett was an 80s superstar, and if you grew up in the 1980s you definitely probably heard her music at least one time or another.
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