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Man Arrested In '93 Murder Of Punk Singer Mia Zapata
from: MTV.com
Among those also spearheading the activism, JOAN JETT and Bikini Kill frontwoman Kathleen Hanna wrote the track "Go Home," a song about a late-night stalker, with Zapata in mind. The song was recorded with the surviving members of the Gits, and a video "dedicated to the memory of Mia Zapata" was shot in England by director Julian Temple, with Jett playing a woman being stalked who turns the tables on her predator.
The song prompted a benefit concert by Jett and the surviving Gits, who called themselves Evil Stig ("Gits Live" backwards). Then-heads of Warner Bros. Records, Mo Ostin and Lenny Waronker, funded the recording of the concert and released the album in 1995.
Partly due to Jett's persistence, Zapata's open murder case was profiled on the television programs "America's Most Wanted" and "Unsolved Mysteries."
Home Alive released a benefit double album in 1996, Home Alive: The Art of Self Defense, featuring "Go Home" and contributions from Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden, the Fastbacks, Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra, and X's Exene Cervenka, among its 44 tracks.
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