September 2018 News

Review: The best reason to have a 'Bad Reputation'
from: digitaljournal.com
By SARAH GOPAUL



JOAN JETT is an iconic, hall of fame musician, but 'Bad Reputation' shows she was doing more than just entertaining crowds for the last four decades -- she was clearing a path for women who wanted to rock.

JOAN JETT is an iconic, hall of fame musician, but 'Bad Reputation' shows she was doing more than just entertaining crowds for the last four decades -- she was clearing a path for women who wanted to rock. One of the great things about film in recent years is their increased (and somewhat begrudging) willingness to tell female stories. In some cases, it's hard to believe they weren't told before and in others it's easy to see they couldn't have been told correctly until now. But as others have said, seeing oneself on-screen is a powerful thing and women at the forefront have been grossly underrepresented in spite of comprising half the world's population. That, of course, doesn't mean they haven't been doing great things -- just that no one was sharing them with the masses. In Bad Reputation, audiences learn about JOAN JETT's barrier-smashing music career.

Jett knew she wanted to be a rock star since she got her first guitar for Christmas at 13, but she didn't realize there'd be so many roadblocks to making her dream a reality. When manager Kim Fowley united Jett, Jackie Fox, Lita Ford, Sandy West and Cherie Currie to form The RUNAWAYS, there weren't any other all-female rock bands on the radio… because there was an actual policy regarding how many female musicians could/had to be played per hour (the number was more than zero but less than two). Still, the young women persevered and where U.S. critics derided their rise to fame, the world cheered and greeted them like The Beatles. But poor management divided the group and Jett was left to go it alone, which she did with a fiery passion that drove the success of JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS.

This documentary is essentially the video compilation you're shown at an awards dinner honouring someone accomplished… or at an anniversary party since as Jett remarks, music is her mate and she's been devoted to their relationship since she played her first note. Still, seemingly made with Jett's permission and cooperation, the movie has no bite. It recounts Jett's musical history and glosses over her alcoholism, even referencing the 2010 biopic about The RUNAWAYS starring Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning and Michael Shannon. But if there was any dirt swept under the rug, that's where it's staying as the film is a celebration of her career, not a tabloid hack job.

However, this isn't just a movie about an artist -- Jett was a trailblazer when the only path for a female musician was singing with an acoustic guitar. A significant part of the picture focuses on how these women were tolerated as an opening act or small venue headliner, but disparaged when they set out to record an album and go on tour "like the guys." "Cute" and "fun" turned into "slut" and "whore" almost immediately. There was no respect for female rockers and they decided not to care. In addition to interviewing Debbie Harry, Pete Townshend, Iggy Pop and Billie Joe Armstrong, Jett is centre stage telling her story in her own words, describing the crap they got for being women in a man's world. And as potent concert footage is intertwined with the story, viewers realize their songs weren't just rock anthems for fans to lose themselves in -- they were reflections of her passion in all its forms.

It's a bit false to skim over the bad times, but this movie reminds audiences that Jett is an inspiration to women everywhere -- girls just want to rock!

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JOAN JETT Has Spent Her Career Fighting For Equality In Music. But She Doesn't Know When We'll Get It.
from: yahoo.com
By Courtney E. Smith



With the release of Bad Reputation, JOAN JETT has taken a moment to look back on her own life. She's already an icon, but this documentary spanning the beginning of her career in the '70s all-girl band The RUNAWAYS to her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015 makes something else clear: she's a fighter. She's gone to the mat for the rights of women in music, for her own right to make and live by her rules, and for control over her career.

"Really that's all The RUNAWAYS were doing: trying to express ourselves the way we knew how, putting it into our songs," Jett told Refinery29, putting the raison d'être of her groundbreaking girl band into words. "Not much different than what the Rolling Stones were doing. We didn't want barriers put up on what we were allowed to sing about, say, or play."

Refinery29 spoke to Jett ahead of Bad Reputation 's release, and the "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" singer told us about the strangeness of watching your life be turned into a documentary, about enduring criticism from second-wave feminists, and why she's always faced her fears when people told her she couldn't do something â€" and did it anyway.

Refinery29: With this documentary, you got the chance to look back and reflect on the choices you've made and the battles you've chosen to fight. How do you feel about what you see?
JOAN JETT: "I feel pretty fulfilled, looking at the film. I went right along on the emotional journey that my life has been: the elation of The RUNAWAYS, the depression when the band broke up, meeting [my longtime manager] Kenny [Laguna]. It took me on this journey again. I feel good about it. I don't have big regrets, yeah sure here and there in the details I could find stuff I wish I did, but on the main things, I've been really blessed and guided by a universal force that took me in the right direction for me."

What battles do you feel like you're still fighting?
"I think the gender issue, the roles of what women are allowed to do and not allowed to do, is going to be with us for a long time. That's always a place to put some energy. Teaching younger people at an early age how to treat people is very important. I think it makes a big difference in how we grow up. Addressing gender issues and what we say to each other, it starts early. Everybody with little kids or kids around knows exactly what I'm talking about. It's up to all of us to tend to our own gardens and deal with that stuff if we want things changed. If we want guys to treat women differently, we need to focus on how [young] boys and girls treat each other."
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'JOAN JETT: Bad Reputation' shows how Jett defied the sexism that determined what made women 'bad'
from: nbcnews.com
By Maura Johnston | Photo Michael Ochs Archives via Getty Images file



JOAN JETT's ascent to rock's highest echelons began one Christmas in the 1970s, when her parents gave her a Sears Silvertone guitar. "When they got me that guitar for Christmas -- the electric guitar -- I was thinking, 'Most parents wouldn't do that,'" the "I Love Rock and Roll" singer, former member of the pioneering teen-punk outfit The RUNAWAYS, activist and all-around hellion says in the just-released documentary about her life, "JOAN JETT: Bad Reputation."

Jett had specifically asked for an electric guitar, and not an acoustic one -- she was 13 and already aiming to defy expectations, and in the early 70s, "women with guitars" were usually toting acoustic models to accompany the folk-pop that they were often boxed into playing. Jett, who was fascinated by the glitter rock that was taking hold in the 70s, had a different idea of what "women in music" could be.

"I was so into this idea of girls being able to play rock and roll, and that they'd play as well as boys would. Girls playing rock and roll would be so cool and sexy, because it had never been done. I thought everybody would love it," Jett says.

Jett formed The RUNAWAYS, her first band, in California in 1975. (While her snarl has since become one of rock's most iconic voices, she felt too shy at first to handle lead-singer duties, which were handled by Cherie Currie until 1977.) The group, whose razor-wire guitars and unapologetic songs like "Queens of Noise" and "I Love Playin' With Fire," took cues from glam and punk as well as metal. They opened for the likes of Cheap Trick and Van Halen -- but squaring the circle between being women and being rockers was difficult.

Jett notes that when people involved with the Los Angeles rock scene -- musicians, promoters, concert attendees -- viewed The RUNAWAYS as a novelty act, their reception was positive, if pat-on-the-head condescending. "But once they realized it was serious --that we planned to make an album, and go on tour, and do everything male bands were doing, the tables turned," she recalls in the documentary. "It went from 'cute, sweet' to 'slut, whore, cunt.'" (The film does not touch on allegations from 2015 that RUNAWAYS manager Kim Fowley, who has since died, sexually assaulted band member Jackie "Fox" Fuchs.)

Reading reviews of The RUNAWAYS from the time can be nauseating. "Am I not a fan, a man who while not entirely asexual, bought the RUNAWAYS records right from the start and actually took off the shrink wrap and played them?" British writer Sandy Robertson asked in "Sounds" in 1977 -- the type of sort-of-well-meaning, yet still-kind-of-gross returns to the sexist mean that tinged reactions to The RUNAWAYS and so many of the all-woman bands that followed them.
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Review: Bad Reputation is a quick riff on a punk-rock icon
from: theglobeandmail.com
By BRAD WHEELER



The ones who don't give a damn about their "bad reputation" are often the ones who don't end up having that problem.

Rock 'n' roll says so, and so does an energetic, applauding and unadventurous documentary on the black-leather life and electric-guitar times of the pioneering punk-rocker JOAN JETT. It's called Bad Reputation, named after Jett's early-eighties solo-breakthrough hit.

But here's the thing: Jett's reputation is not bad at all -- in fact it's hard-rock, three-chord solid. Who says so? Worshippers from Michael J. Fox to Miley Cyrus to Iggy Pop to the current U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley.

Covering her up-and-down career from the groundbreaking all-girl band the RUNAWAYS to her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015, Bad Reputation roars through Jett's 60 years like one of her songs, snarling and unsubtle.

We learn a little about Jett's activism, and hardly anything about her personal life. "Music is my mate," she says. Of course, she sang I Love Rock 'n' Roll. Put another dime in the jukebox, baby, the feelings are mutual. '

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'We Had To Do It Ourselves': JOAN JETT Looks Back On Being A Conduit For Women In Rock
from: npr.org
By Rachel Martin



Growing up, Joan Marie Larkin had big dreams. She considered becoming an archaeologist or an astronaut, and she wasn't going to let society tell her what a girl could or couldn't do. She eventually turned to music and went on to be one of the most celebrated women in rock: JOAN JETT. Bad Reputation, a new documentary out now, traces her hard-fought rise to rock and roll fame.

Jett's story starts with a Christmas gift. At 13, she asked her parents specifically for an electric guitar and not an acoustic one. "I wanted to make those loud noises that I heard on the radio," she says. Her parents gave her a Sears Silvertone guitar and she promptly enrolled in guitar lessons. An early guitar teacher inspired her in a way he may not have intended.

"I said, 'Teach me how to play rock and roll,'" the musician remembers. "He said, 'Girls don't play rock and roll.'"

That response from her teacher only compelled Jett to rock harder. As a teenager, she formed an all-girl band called The RUNAWAYS. In the late 1970s, people either didn't know what to think of it or thought some pretty vile things.

"There were people right from the total, very beginning that were taking shots and being very nasty," she says. At some points, Jett had bottles and other heavy objects thrown at her while performing at shows. But when The RUNAWAYS performed abroad in places like Japan, Jett recalls a stark contrast in the fanfare of the crowd. In 1977, she remembers thousands of girls showing up to the band's shows and even rocking cars she was in.

"Women were looked at, as they are, I guess, around the world, as sort of second class citizens and so the girls were responding to what they perceived as our power, I suppose," Jett says.
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Rock icon JOAN JETT to fellow badass women: 'Stick to your guns'
from: nypost.com
By Chuck Arnold



When a 13-year-old JOAN JETT got the electric guitar she asked her parents for as a Christmas present, she was ready to rock. But that all changed after she went to get her first guitar lesson.

"I was all excited. I said, 'Teach me how to play rock 'n' roll!'" the music icon, who turned 60 on Sept. 22, tells The Post. "And the guy said to me, 'Girls don't play rock 'n' roll.' That's probably the first time I realized, 'OK, this electric-guitar thing is gonna be a pain in the butt. I'm gonna get a lot of crap.'

"What he was saying [was], it's not that girls can't master the instrument, but that you're not allowed to play that kind of music."

But despite that early discouragement, Jett played on and launched a groundbreaking career -- first as a member of the all-female band the RUNAWAYS, then as a fierce frontwoman with the BLACKHEARTS -- that earned her a spot in the testosterone-heavy Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2015. Her life as a snarling, punk-spiked pioneer is captured in the new documentary "Bad Reputation," opening Friday, which takes its title from Jett's classic 1981 single.

The film shows just how far Jett -- born Joan Larkin in Wynnewood, Pa. -- has come since she went from playing Beethoven and Bach on the clarinet to cranking up her guitar to the sounds of Free's "All Right Now" and T. Rex's "Bang a Gong (Get It On)."

"My parents engaged my dream," she says of her father, James, who was an insurance agent, and her mother, Dorothy. "They really stepped up when I was a kid, told me I could be anything I wanted to be. I wanted to be an astronaut, I wanted to be an archaeologist, I wanted to act before I played music."

"Bad Reputation" recounts how Jett got her glam-rock education when, as a teen, she frequented Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco in Los Angeles. "It was very eye-opening," she says of the Sunset Strip club, where she could dance to David Bowie while mingling with Iggy Pop.
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JOAN JETT: 'My Lot in Life Is to Battle'
from: nytimes.com
By Melena Ryzik



After 40-plus years in rock, the singer and guitarist is as fierce and defiant as ever. A new documentary charts her pathbreaking rise.

JOAN JETT has worked. That's one message of "Bad Reputation," a documentary chronicling her 40-plus years in the music business, first as a founder of the RUNAWAYS, the seismic teen girl rockers of the '70s, then as the frontwoman and guitarist for the BLACKHEARTS, her enduring band. Her drive was to keep playing, no matter the consequences; even when women were sidelined, she persevered.

"For me, it was all in, completely," she said of being a rock musician. "And I think I knew that young. I didn't have a Plan B." (As Iggy Pop puts it in the doc: "JOAN JETT was nobody's sidecar.")

Her ferocity and defiance have never diminished. At 60, she is still clad in black and leather, with expertly winged eyeliner -- even offstage. Her leather looks are actually faux; she is a longtime animal advocate. The effect is the same though: hot, figuratively and literally. "You should sweat when you're onstage," she said. "Flinging it around! I like it."

The BLACKHEARTS' ongoing United States tour resumes Oct. 19, in Michigan, with Australia on deck next year, and their catalog has just begun streaming.

The documentary, in theaters and on demand on Sept. 28, also uncovers a lesser-known side of Ms. Jett's life: her relationship with her longtime manager and producer, KENNY LAGUNA. Mr. Laguna, who originally made his name on bubble-gum tunes in the '60s, helped her form the BLACKHEARTS, after his wife, Meryl, encouraged them to work together. He brought the pop, he says in the film, and Ms. Jett "brought the menace."

Together, they bicker, lovingly. For a time, Ms. Jett even lived with the Lagunas on Long Island and helped raise their daughter, Carianne Brinkman, now the vice president of BLACKHEART RECORDS. The movie was Ms. Brinkman's idea.
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JOAN JETT laid the foundation for Time's Up but insists a big change is required for genuine female equality
from: metro.us
By Gregory Wakeman



The legendary musician also talks 'Bad Reputation' and being the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll

It's interesting to look back at the reaction JOAN JETT and the RUNAWAYS provoked when they originally burst onto the music scene.

The male dominated media didn't know what to do or how to react to the all-female teenage rock band's confrontational and proudly sexual aesthetic and music.

It's not that Cherie Currie, Lita Ford, Sandy West, Jackie Fox and JOAN JETT were doing anything different to the likes of The Rolling Stones, Kiss or David Bowie, though. It's that they were young women.

The reaction looks particularly misogynistic in the current climate, where the Me Too and Time's Up movements have shaken up the patriarchy.

I recently had the chance to speak to JOAN JETT about "Bad Reputation," a documentary on her career, during which time I asked whether she saw a link between her groundbreaking start in the music industry and today.

"I totally see a link. It is pervasive. I think pretty much every woman has some kind of experience in a Me Too situation. There are so many you can't really go into it. Or remember them all."

But while Jett sees a link, she doesn't believe that enough has changed when it comes to female equality.

"I don't see a big shift since The Runaway days. Things have not changed that much. It might look different."
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Behind the great JOAN JETT was the support of KENNY LAGUNA
from: economist.com
By Gary Graff



"BAD REPUTATION", a new documentary about JOAN JETT, covers the expected ground. It demonstrates, through archival footage and interviews, how the American musician prefigured punk with her teenage girl band the RUNAWAYS in the late 1970s. It explores her solo career, in which she dared anyone to say that women did not rock as hard as men. But at its heart, "Bad Reputation" is an unusual love story. It reveals the close platonic relationship between Ms Jett and KENNY LAGUNA, notionally her producer, but also a kind of surrogate for any other role she might seem to need: parent, best friend, brother big or little, confidant, factotum.

Mr Laguna enters the film around a third of the way through. Ms Jett is lost after the RUNAWAYS have burned out; Mr Laguna is casting around for some means of resurrecting himself a decade after his heyday as a teenage hitmaking prodigy, writing bubblegum songs for the manufactured groups of the late 1960s. It wasn't just that two people in need of something or someone to revive them found each other. It was also that their particular tastes and skills were perfectly complementary.

Ms Jett, who became a musician because she couldn't understand why women who loved aggressive, loud guitars should only be allowed to express that love by becoming a groupie, favoured gravel and grit. Mr Laguna loved melodies and hooks so obvious that even the most stupid fish might look twice before biting. His ear for a tune and for what made a hit record combined with Ms Jett's desire for toughness. A string of records, often cover versions, followed--"Bad Reputation", "I Love Rock'n'Roll", "Do You Wanna Touch Me?", "I Hate Myself For Loving You"--that sounded so complete you couldn't understand why no one had made them before. In the film, Ms Jett considers her appeal to both men and women in blunt terms: "Oh my God, she's going to take me home and fuck the shit out of me."

The documentary suggests that Ms Jett would not have sustained a career for more than 40 years without Mr Laguna. She would still be an important paragraph in rock music history, but chances are the endless vicissitudes she has faced--the terrible mistreatment of the RUNAWAYS by almost everyone they encountered, the difficulties with record labels in her solo career, the flitting in and out of fashion--would have worn her down. It is not that Mr Laguna is the shrewdest businessman or record maker to have walked the corridors of the labels; more that he plainly would do anything for her (earlier this year, when phoning Ms Jett for an interview about one of her favourite bands, this writer was greeted by Mr Laguna, who asked: "Are you ready to speak to the goddess that is JOAN JETT?").

One of the rarely told truths of rock music is that the artists who tend to thrive over long periods are blessed not just with talent, or with a manager with the tenacity of a fighting dog, but with someone in their corner who loves them and sticks up for them long after they have earned their 10%. For Bruce Springsteen, it is Jon Landau, a man whose role in Mr Springsteen's life extends far beyond signing contracts and has done for more than 40 years. For REM, it was Bertis Downs, a manager and extra member of the group. Coldplay have Phil Harvey, no longer officially their manager, but very much the fifth spoke in their wheel. And Ms Jett has Mr Laguna--arguing with her, adoring her and devoting his life to serving her needs.

None of this negates Ms Jett's achievements. If "Bad Reputation" sometimes overstates them (she and Mr Laguna did not single-handedly jumpstart American independent music by self-releasing her first solo album in 1980), it also brings to light other, less noted instances of her importance in American rock. In the first wave of Californian punk at the end of the 1970s, she produced the Germs, a notorious LA band who were in thrall to the RUNAWAYS. A generation on, she helped to inspire the riot grrrl movement--the American feminist rock scene of the early 1990s--in both theoretical and practical terms. Not only was her presence an inspiration, but she produced music for Bikini Kill, a prominent group.
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JOAN JETT's "Bad Reputation" documentary, 5 Things To Know
from: theoaklandpress.com
By Gary Graff

We all know JOAN JETT loves rock 'n' roll. But in recent years she's been getting intimately involved with celluloid.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee was an executive producer for 2010's "The RUNAWAYS," the feature film about her groundbreaking late 70s all-female rock band. Now she's the subject of "Bad Reputation," a frank documentary about her life from falling in love with rock in her native Baltimore, through the RUNAWAYS and into an equally barrier-smashing career as an artist, producer, record label co-owner and activist.

The film's soundtrack has also produced "Fresh Start," the first new song from Jett and her band the BLACKHEARTS in five years, and she promises the story is not over yet.

• After watching actress Kristen Stewart portray her in "The RUNAWAYS," Jett, 60, says by phone that "Bad Reputation" "is different because it's a documentary and hopefully it's what happened, the real-life happenings. It's definitely a surreal experience, and it's more comfortable for me to be able to talk about something like the RUNAWAYS or my band the BLACKHEARTS when I'm not directly speaking about myself. When I have to talk about myself it's weird. I don't feel comfortable because I feel like I'm being narcissistic or something."

• Directed by Kevin Kerslake, "Bad Reputation" is the brainchild of BLACKHEART RECORDS' chief Carianne Brinkman, daughter of Jett's manager and daughter of her longtime manager and collaborator KENNY LAGUNA. "I met Carianne when she was about three months old, and her whole life was immersed in this rock 'n' roll world. So she had a very interesting upbringing that was different from a lot of the kids she grew up with, and kind of unbeknownst to me and Kenny she had always wanted to tell that story to people and what a strange existence she had. I guess initially she was hoping to try to do some kind of sitcom or something like that; That didn't pan out and she was looking for a way to tell the story and eventually landed on doing a documentary about me. She's been doing this for five years or so and eventually put this into a cohesive story so that people could understand how I started right up to now."
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College Radio Day Announces JOAN JETT & KENNY LAGUNA as CRD 2018 Ambassadors
from: markets.businessinsider.com
By PRESS RELEASE PR Newswire



MONTCLAIR, N.J., Sept. 25, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Rock and Roll Hall of Famers JOAN JETT and KENNY LAGUNA of JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS have been named the official 2018 Ambassadors for College Radio Day, which is happening nationwide on Friday, October 5th, 2018.

For JOAN JETT, the impact that college radio has had on her career has been hugely important: "College radio, when we were struggling, was one of the elements that really kept us afloat -- being able to play gigs and people had heard of us because they were playing us on college radio stations. College radio was a big deal for us," says Joan. This is echoed by KENNY LAGUNA, who says, "We're definitely a product of college radio, and through the years we've managed to remain on college radio with the records we put out. It means a lot to us."

After forming The RUNAWAYS, Jett has amassed an impressive string of gold and platinum albums while also breaking gender barriers in the music industry when people dismissed a girl with a guitar who was more Ramones than Joni Mitchell. Along with band member/producer/manager KENNY LAGUNA, they have soldiered on to great success in an ever-changing and unforgiving industry. For college radio, their toughness and journey are inspiring.

"JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS have so much in common with college radio," says CRD Vice President Anabella Poland. "They are honest, raw, gritty, unwavering to mainstream, and they put on a daily fight. College radio was there to support them from the very beginning, and we are delighted that they will be our ambassadors this year." Jett and Laguna have recorded an exclusive interview to be played on participating stations nationwide during the day's celebrations.

Set for Friday, October 5th, the 8th annual College Radio Day will unite college stations from around the world to bring awareness to the work and value college stations bring to the broadcasting medium. Hundreds of stations worldwide have signed on to participate. This year the theme is When All Else Fails, College Radio Speaks, which highlights how students create unique programming and content on college radio that is important to them and not heard on any other medium.

About College Radio Day: The aim of College Radio Day is to harness the combined listenership of hundreds of thousands of college radio listeners throughout the world and celebrate the important contribution of college radio by uniting for one day. The event is organized by the College Radio Foundation, a non-profit based in New Jersey. For more information, please visit: www.collegeradio.org. For more information about JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS, please visit https://joanjett.com.

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LI's JOAN JETT talks career ups and downs, playing the Malibu, more
from: newsday.com
By Rafer Guzmán



"Bad Reputation," a documentary about Long Beach rock icon JOAN JETT, covers the hard-knocks career of a headstrong frontwoman who exploded onto the Los Angeles rock scene with the teenage RUNAWAYS in the mid-1970s, then transformed herself into an MTV star with the BLACKHEARTS during the 1980s, scoring the hit singles "I Love Rock 'n' Roll," "Crimson and Clover" and "I Hate Myself For Loving You." The film, which screens Wednesday, Sept. 26, at two local venues, includes early live footage, old television appearances and interviews with Iggy Pop, Deborah Harry, Miley Cyrus, Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong and others. Jett, who at 60 continues to record albums and play live, emerges as an inspiration to generations of punks, indie rockers and riot grrrls.

"It's really important to tell people that their dreams aren't just dreams," Jett said by phone from a tour stop in Texas. "If I listened to everybody who told me I couldn't do it, then I wouldn't be doing it." The following is a condensed and edited version of the interview.

You've been part of glam, punk, New Wave, indie -- did you try to change with the times, or did the times change around you?
A little bit of both. I did try a few things here and there. Early on I did a rap song [1986's "Black Leather"]. But not really more than that. I'm a rock and roller, that's what I do.

In the film there's an old clip of you singing "Do You Wanna Touch Me [Oh Yeah]" at the Malibu in Lido Beach. The place is packed. Do you remember that show?
I remember! [Laughs.] The first time we played, it was empty. And the next time we played was after we'd had some support from the radio stations. It was really surprising to us -- they had to close the highways coming to the club. It was at that point that we knew something was going on. But we were still selling records out of the trunk of a car.

You became a major star in the 1980s, but you'd already had a whole career with the RUNAWAYS. What lessons had you learned?
It's really important to remember that you never do any of this by yourself. It's not just me, so I can't take credit when things are great. I have a band, I have people helping me make the records, I have the fans. I think: humility, humility, humility, over and over again.

Your bandmates describe the 1990s as a tough period. Would you agree?
Yeah, it was a struggle. We weren't selling records. We weren't necessarily selling out gigs. But I never felt that way. No matter what gig we did, I was there 100 percent. I don't prescribe to the idea that a fair or something isn't a proper place for a rock and roll band to play. Or a casino. If you're going to get embarrassed about that stuff, then maybe you shouldn't be doing it at all.

And then, 20 years later, you're inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Yeah! It just puts a big smile on your face. And the first thing I remember seeing when I came out to accept the award -- and I was going to try to keep it together -- the first people I see are Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, standing up to give me a standing ovation. And then everybody else stood up! That's the kind of thing you can't even put in your dream-maker.
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Live at River City Rockfest 2018 in San Antonio, Texas in AT&T Center Grounds - September/22/2018
from: YouTube.com
By HeavyMetalPowerslave

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Happy Birthday, JOAN JETT: Still rocking at 60!
from: usatoday.com



Rocker JOAN JETT was born Joan Marie Larkin on Sept. 22, 1958. The musician and singer is known for being a lead member of the BLACKHEARTS and The RUNAWAYS -- she was a founding member when she was just 15. Here, she is seen at the 2013 American Music Awards on Nov. 24, 2013, in Los Angeles.

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Rock Music Menu: JOAN JETT reaches historic agreement with Sony
from: delcotimes.com
By Michael Christopher

Rock and roll legend and Wynnewood native JOAN JETT is getting some well-deserved recognition with a historic new agreement she has entered into with Sony Music Entertainment/Legacy Recordings and the singer's BLACKHEART RECORDS, the music label she founded in 1980.

The arrangement comes on the eve of the release of a highly anticipated documentary on Jett, 'Bad Reputation,' which hits theaters next week.

The new deal between Sony and BLACKHEART RECORDS -- the latter which was co-founded with legendary songwriter/producer KENNY LAGUNA and Meryl Laguna -- covers the worldwide rights to Jett's recorded music catalog, including the hits "I Love Rock 'N' Roll," "Crimson and Clover," "Bad Reputation," "Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)" and more.

As a part of the deal, Legacy Recordings has made a variety of JOAN JETT titles available for the first time on streaming services and digital service providers effective immediately. Under the terms of the agreement, the entire Jett catalog of singles, albums, music videos, concert films and more will be available under the Sony/Legacy umbrella and released in digital and physical formats.

The first wave of Legacy's BLACKHEART RECORDS releases includes Jett's studio classics 'Bad Reputation,' 'I Love Rock 'N' Roll,' 'Glorious Results of a Misspent Youth,' 'SINNER,' 'Pure and Simple' and 'Unvarnished.' Additionally, the compilation albums 'Flashback,' 'Fetish' and 'Greatest Hits' and special editions of 'I Love Rock 'N' Roll 33 1/3 Anniversary' and 'JOAN JETT - The First Sessions' join Jett's four Sony catalog titles already online, 'Good Music,' 'Up Your Alley,' 'The Hit List' and 'Notorious.'

As part of this unique partnership with BLACKHEART RECORDS, The Thread Shop, Sony Music Entertainment's in-house merchandising company, will administer JOAN JETT's exclusive merchandising rights, retail licensing and e-commerce on a worldwide basis.

"Blackheart is excited to be working with Sony Legacy, particularly as we enter into the streaming space with the BLACKHEART RECORDS catalog, including the JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS catalog in its entirety,” said Vice President of BLACKHEART RECORDS Carianne Brinkman in a statement. “They are the best at what they do and understand the brands and artists they work with. We feel it is the perfect partnership."

"The music of JOAN JETT -- raw, real and uncompromising -- has been an essential part of the pop culture landscape across four decades," added Richard Story, President of Sony Music Entertainment Commercial Music Group. "Sony Music and Legacy Recordings are both honored and thrilled to be part of the JOAN JETT saga and look forward to bringing her music and attitude to future rockers."
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JOAN JETT on her Bad Reputation doc and the challenges women in rock face today: 'It's the same old bulls---'
from: ew.com
By Dan Reilly

Despite its title, you won't hear an unkind word about JOAN JETT in the new documentary Bad Reputation (out Sept. 28). Dozens of friends and musicians, including Dave Grohl, Miley Cyrus, Iggy Pop, Billie Joe Armstrong, and Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna, speak with nothing but love and admiration for the Queen of Rock and Roll.

The film chronicles Jett's entire career, from her time with the RUNAWAYS to forming her group the BLACKHEARTS to the unnecessary pushback she's faced as a female rocker. "You need women at high levels to change the decision-making process," she tells EW, about what it will take to make things different for women in the music industry. "It's not going to make everything better, but it's a start."

Ahead, Jett chats about her movie, the #MeToo movement, and how Robert Plant's advice once landed her in jail.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You have a lot of folks singing your praises in this film. Was any of that surprising to hear?
JOAN JETT: It's all surprising and surreal. I've got such great friends and I've had great experiences. It kind of wraps up my career and I feel good about the whole thing. I've only seen [the film] once -- I'm not sure if I've even seen the final edit -- and I want it to be that way. It's not easy to watch yourself over and over again.

Watching the archive footage, were there any parts that brought you back to a moment in your career or performance you'd forgotten about?
Yeah, I went completely on that journey again of being elated in the RUNAWAYS, creating this band I loved so much and was my baby, and then the depression when we broke up. Then to meet Kenny [Laguna, her manager, producer, business partner, and best friend] and have a chance to create [the BLACKHEARTS] and the amount of resistance that we got. Now I had somebody else to fight with and share this craziness I was experiencing, about how "girls can't play rock and roll." It was insane.

The movie takes on the bigger topic of women in rock. Has the current #MeToo movement and the women's marches brought back any visceral feelings, seeing what these women are doing today that you were doing decades ago?
Well, the experience that these women have gone through, it's not something that's foreign to me. Most women and girls out there unfortunately experienced various degrees of this. It's not unique. They speak for a lot more women, not just the women involved in the movement. A lot of us that may not have tweeted something, [or] may not be officially involved yet have gone through those same things.

In terms of the "women in rock" conversation, what do you see that's changed in the industry?
It's all the same old bulls-- [laughs]. Not much has changed. I tell ya, since I started, it's a lot more lip service and the appearance of equaling out, but there aren't necessarily more women in positions of power, which is what you're going to need to change things on a more drastic and dramatic level. You need women in positions of power at the TV, movie, and record studios, the big Dow and Fortune 500 companies, all through the whole ball of wax.
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Trump Administration Official Nikki Haley Is Featured In The New JOAN JETT Documentary, 'Bad Reputation'
from: uproxx.com
By CORBIN REIFF

If you've seen enough music documentaries, well, any documentary really, you know that one of the key features is the appearance of "talking heads." These are notable figures from the given subjects life who are there to provide context, backstory and anecdotal evidence about their greatness or lack thereof.

On September 28, a new documentary titled Bad Reputation is set to hit streaming services that will tell the full tale of the life of '70s and '80s rock legend JOAN JETT, and among the figures that sat down to talk with the filmmakers included Donald Trump's Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley.

Apparently, Haley is one of Jett's biggest fans and met her for the first time while she was the governor of South Carolina back in 2014. The pair lunched together at the Peacock Alley restaurant in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York during the Republican Governors Association and hit it off well enough that she was eventually asked, four years later, to wax rhapsodic for the cameras.

"When I am going through the toughest times, I'll blast her music," Haley told Marie Clare back in 2011. "She was one of the first female rockers when female rockers weren't accepted. When no one would sign her, she created her own label. And when she accomplished everything she walked away! I mean, how cool is that?"

Despite Haley's fandom, her association with the Trump administration makes her a curious addition to Bad Reputation, given Jett's own public aversion to the man himself. Recently, she teamed up with Blondie for the song "Doom Or Destiny," which lambasted the President.

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JOAN JETT on replacing Cherie Currie in The RUNAWAYS: "I had to step up"
from: nme.com
By Samantha Maine



Jett was tasked with the lead vocals once Currie left the band

JOAN JETT has opened up about becoming the frontwoman of The RUNAWAYS after Cherie Currie left the band in 1977.

Jett, who had previously shared vocal duties with Currie, took over lead vocals full time until the band's split in 1979.

Speaking to Against Me!'s Laura Jane Grace in Billboard, Jett said that the group were 'either going to completely break up as a band' or she had to step up. "But there were a lot of things I knew," she continued.

"I knew I wasn't Cherie. I knew I wasn't a blonde bombshell. I knew I wasn't the one people wanted to look at. And that's a weird feeling. I'm getting emotional, I don't know why. What else could I do? Either end it or plow ahead and not worry."

Jett also spoke of her forthcoming documentary -- Bad Reputation -- which chronicles her life in The RUNAWAYS and The BLACKHEARTS. The film covers the harassment and misogyny Jett experienced early on in her career and while it wasn't specifically tied into the #MeToo movement, it arrives at a time when the international conversation around harassment is continuing to unfold.

"The timing was just organic," Jett said of the connection. "We've been filming this for, I don't know, seven years? Had the terminology and the lexicon [of the #MeToo movement] happened while we were filming, it would have been in there.
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JOAN JETT and Laura Jane Grace on Their Rock 'n' Roll Friendship and Being an 'Outsider Among Outsiders'
from: billboard.com
By Nolan Feeney



'Bad Reputation,' a documentary about JOAN JETT's life and career, arrives Sept. 28 More than 40 years into her career, JOAN JETT still doesn't give a damn.

That much is clear in Bad Reputation, a documentary (out Sept. 28) chronicling her life in The RUNAWAYS and The BLACKHEARTS. Her spirit is alive and well in pal and sometime collaborator Laura Jane Grace, the Against Me! singer who appears in the doc and on Nov. 9 will release Bought to Rot, her first album with new group Laura Jane Grace & The Devouring Mothers. The two discuss their creative processes, knocking down the walls of rock's boys club and keeping egos at bay.

You met on the 2006 Vans Warped Tour and later became collaborators. How did you know you were kindred spirits?

Jett: What really stood out was the songs. I knew by the end of the tour that I wanted to try to write with Laura. It's a recognition that's hard to even put into words -- you recognize the energy.

Grace: Hearing you say that, it really dawns on me: When we met, I wasn't out as trans, but that feeling expressed in [your] documentary of being an outsider among outcasts is the feeling I grew up with. I turned to punk because I didn't fit in anywhere else. And even if I didn't realize it when we met, it really resonates.

Jett: Outsider among outsiders -- you know there's a song there, Laura! We got to write that.
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Watch Exclusive Clip from New JOAN JETT Documentary, 'Bad Reputation'
from: rollingstone.com
By SUZY EXPOSITO



Bad Reputation, the new documentary chronicling the wild life of JOAN JETT, hits theaters nationwide September 28th.

Best known for timeless hits like "I Love Rock 'N'Roll," JOAN JETT is one of the greatest guitarists to have walked the earth â€" and she is no stranger to the silver screen. She landed her first movie role opposite Michael J. Fox in the 1987 musical drama, Light of Day, and went on to play herself in many others. In 2010 her former band of teenage drama queens, The RUNAWAYS, got the Hollywood treatment in the biopic of the same name, in which Jett was played by Kristen Stewart, co-starring Dakota Fanning as lead singer Cherie Currie. Now in her upcoming documentary, Bad Reputation, Jett airs out the good, the bad and the downright ugly of her coming of age as a young woman in rock & roll.

"You'd get spit on," Jett explains in an exclusive clip. "I felt like I couldn't leave the stage… The other girls got tired of it, and I don't blame 'em. It's just that, to me, it felt like that was what I had to do."

Directed by Kevin Kerslake, Bad Reputation made its world premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. The film unveils archival footage from Jett's freewheeling years as a punk, to scenes from her present day as a seasoned rock star and activist. It also features colorful commentary by Jett herself, who is joined by her trusted songwriter-producer KENNY LAGUNA, Billie Joe Armstrong, Debbie Harry, Iggy Pop, Pete Townshend, Miley Cyrus and more. Bad Reputation will also be available for streaming on iTunes and on Amazon Prime.

"Tell me I can't do something," says Jett, "and you be sure I'm gonna be doing it."

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Bad Reputation Shows No One Is Better at Being JOAN JETT Than JOAN JETT
from: thestranger.com
By Kathy Fennessy

The perfectly titled JOAN JETT documentary, Bad Reputation, opens with a story the former Joan Larkin tells about her desire as a 13-year-old for a Sears electric guitar. (Adding to the vibe, she tells it in the grittiest, most punk-rock voice imaginable.)

Her parents didn't understand why she would want such a thing, but they got her one. She wailed away on it until she became as good asâ€"if not better thanâ€"the teen boys also dreaming of rock-and-roll stardom in the SoCal suburbs of the 1970s. In Floria Sigismondi's 2010 feature film The RUNAWAYS, Jett (nicely played by Kristen Stewart) pays for a guitar with handfuls of coins, but this story is more telling.

Jett got her start by hanging out at the Sunset Strip nightclub Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco, where she plunged into the glam-rock scene. In retrospect, it's hard to believe they let in teenagers like 14-year-old Joan. As with Manhattan's Studio 54, every manner of vice was on offer, but she emerged relatively unscathed. Through the club, she met the notorious Kim Fowley (played by Michael Shannon in The RUNAWAYS), who helped her put together an all-girl band. As Iggy Pop quips, not inaccurately, "Kim Fowley looked like Frankenstein if Frankenstein was on crack."

If Jett longed to be taken seriously as a musician, the overwhelmingly male-dominated media of the time couldn't see past the RUNAWAYS' jailbait image (manager Fowley, who used it as a marketing tool, shares in the blame). Only in London, during the punk era, did Jett feel like she fit in. It's no wonder that she would end up working with members of the Sex Pistols and the Germs. In the documentary, Debbie Harry of Blondie, Ian MacKaye of Fugazi, and Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys also pay their respects.

Director Kevin Kerslake (Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!) proceeds through the years as Jett struggles to remain commercially viable, a challenge for any legacy act, irrespective of genre, gender, or orientation. Then along came the riot grrrl movement, which brought Jett back to her punk roots. In addition to her production work for Bikini Kill, and cowriting credits with Kathleen Hanna, she joined forces with the surviving members of the Gits to promote women's self-defense and to search for Mia Zapata's killer (her voice breaks when she discusses the late Seattle singer). She has also played for the troops and spoken out on behalf of LGBTQ rights and the benefits of vegetarianism.

Jett has always been fiercely protective of her private life, but the clues are there in her lyrics, like her 1981 cover of Lesley Gore's proto-riot-grrrl classic "You Don't Own Me" ("Don't tell me what to do, don't tell me what to say") or her declaration on 1994's "Spinster": "I'm no one's wife, and I'm not your little girl." On "Fragile," from her most recent album, 2013's underappreciated Unvarnished, a 54-year-old Jett sings: "I'm at the point in life now, I think about my own mortality and how it all works out. I lived the best I could, but is that a bluff? I see myself and wonder, was that good enough?"

Is there any doubt? No one--not even Cesar Award-winning actress Kristen Stewart--is better at being JOAN JETT than JOAN JETT.

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JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS Release "Fresh Start"
from: radio.com
By Scott Shannon

"I need a fresh start, let's go back to the top, rewind the tape and reset the clock," sings JOAN JETT in her and the BLACKHEARTS newest single, "Fresh Start."

The track was recorded exclusively for the soundtrack to Bad Reputation, Jett's upcoming documentary due September 28. Her first official release since 2013's "Any Weather," the uptempo track focuses on the struggles that come from making music and getting older.

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JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS Roar Back With 'Fresh Start': Listen
from: billboard.com
By Gil Kaufman

You'll forgive JOAN JETT if she's feeling a little deja vu these days. After being followed around by a film crew for five years as part of the upcoming Bad Reputation biopic (Sept. 28) directed by Kevin Kerslake, Jett is in a reflective mood on the new track "Fresh Start," which was recorded for the film. "Sometimes I feel like I've been here before/ It's like the past knocking on my door/ Sometimes I feel like I'm standing still/ Or better yet I'm running up a hill," Jett sings in her signature snarl on the track.

The film chronicles Jett's rise from teenage renegade in The RUNAWAYS and her rise to stardom as a solo act in the 1980s, when she charted such iconic hits as "I Love Rock 'N' Roll," "Crimson and Clover" and "Bad Reputation." The movie features testimonials from the likes of Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong, Blondie's Chris Stein, longtime manager KENNY LAGUNA, Iggy Pop, Pete Townshend and many more. "I need a fresh start, let's go back to the top/ Rewind the tape, and reset the clock/ This time, there's no turning back," she sings on the track's hand-clapping, buzzsaw guitar chorus.

Check out "Fresh Start" and the Bad Reputation trailer below.

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On The Eve Of A New Documentary, JOAN JETT Gets A 'Fresh Start'
from: npr.org
By Stephen Thompson

It's a big month for rock legend JOAN JETT. She's about to be the subject of a documentary, Bad Reputation, that hits theaters and streaming services on Sept. 28. A few days earlier, she'll turn 60. And this week, as a way to build anticipation for the movie, she's releasing a new single: the appropriately titled "Fresh Start."

Anyone who's stuck with Jett throughout her career â€" which began when she was a teenager in the RUNAWAYS and continued long past a run of massive rock stardom in the '80s -- knows that she's remained remarkably consistent. To this day, she's a powerhouse live, and Jett's later songs and albums still show off a sleek and stormy sound. If you pumped your fist to "I Love Rock and Roll" or "I Hate Myself for Loving You," but lost track of Jett at some point in the decades since, know that she's lost nothing off her fastball.

"Fresh Start" continues in that vein, setting epically crunching guitar riffs against a larger message about learning from your mistakes, starting over and seizing the opportunities in front of you. Lord knows Jett has earned the reset implied in the song's title, but if you've been listening along over the years, you'll know that she doesn't exactly need it.

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JOAN JETT Catalog Part Of SONY MUSIC/LEGACY's New Agreement with BLACKHEART RECORDS
from: blabbermouth.net
By Julia Brucculieri

Sony Music Entertainment and Legacy Recordings, a division of SME, have entered into an historic new agreement with BLACKHEART RECORDS, the groundbreaking American music label founded in 1980 by rock icon JOAN JETT, legendary songwriter/producer KENNY LAGUNA and Meryl Laguna. The new SME/Legacy/Blackheart pact covers the worldwide rights to JOAN JETT's recorded music catalog, including indelible classics and global hits such as "I Love Rock 'N' Roll", "Crimson And Clover", "Bad Reputation", "Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)" and more.

Legacy Recordings is making a variety of JOAN JETT titles available for the first time on streaming services and digital service providers today, September 7. The first wave of Legacy's BLACKHEART RECORDS releases includes Jett's studio classics "Bad Reputation", "I Love Rock 'N' Roll", "Glorious Results Of A Misspent Youth", "SINNER", "Pure And Simple" and "Unvarnished"; the compilation albums "Flashback", "Fetish" and "Greatest Hits"; and special editions of "I Love Rock 'N' Roll 33 1/3 Anniversary" and "JOAN JETT -- The First Sessions". These new releases join Joan's four SME catalog titles already online -- "Good Music", "Up Your Alley", "The Hit List" and "Notorious".

Under the terms of this historic new agreement, the entire JOAN JETT catalog -- singles, albums, music videos, concert films, etc. -- will be available under the SME/Legacy umbrella and released in digital and physical formats.

As part of this unique partnership with BLACKHEART RECORDS, The Thread Shop, Sony Music Entertainment's in-house merchandising company, will administer JOAN JETT's exclusive merchandising rights, retail licensing and e-commerce on a worldwide basis.

Carianne Brinkman, vice president, BLACKHEART RECORDS, said: "Blackheart is excited to be working with Sony Legacy, particularly as we enter into the streaming space with the BLACKHEART RECORDS catalog, including the JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS catalog in its entirety. They are the best at what they do and understand the brands and artists they work with. We feel it is the perfect partnership."

"The music of JOAN JETT â€" raw, real and uncompromising â€" has been an essential part of the pop culture landscape across four decades," said Richard Story, president, SME Commercial Music Group. "Sony Music and Legacy Recordings are both honored and thrilled to be part of the JOAN JETT saga and look forward to bringing her music and attitude to future rockers."

Legacy Recordings acquisition and release of the JOAN JETT catalog precedes the upcoming theatrical release of "Bad Reputation", director Kevin Kerslake's much-anticipated documentary film, which opened to rave reviews at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. The film chronicles JOAN JETT's extraordinary life and career, from her arrival on the scene as an iconoclastic punk rock pioneer in the 1970s through her evolution as musical role model/chart-topping hitmaker with THE BLACKHEARTS in the 1980s-1990s-2000s to her induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2015. Distributed by Magnolia Pictures in North America, "Bad Reputation" will play one night only in special theatrical engagements across the country on September 26, and open for full theatrical runs in New York and Los Angeles on September 28, when it will also launch on iTunes, Amazon and On Demand everywhere. Theatrical engagements of the film will feature 10 minutes of never-before-seen bonus footage of JOAN JETT that can only be seen in theaters
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JOAN JETT film Bad Reputation: The JOAN JETT story by Kevin Kerslake
from: music-news.com
By Newsdesk

From director Kevin Kerslake (Bob Marley Legend Remixed, As I AM: The Life and Times of DJ AM and Nirvana's Come As You Are music video) comes a celebration of JOAN JETT, the Godmother of Punk Rock.

BAD REPUTATION is an electrifying documentary about how a strong--willed musician became a cultural icon and a trailblazer for women in the arts and the world over. The film will be coming to cinemas across the UK and Ireland on 26 October 2018 and will have its UK Premiere at the BFI London Film Festival on 12 and 13 October.

Featuring interviews with Adam Horovitz, Alison Mosshart, Billie Joe Armstrong (Green Day), Debbie Harry, Ian MacKaye (Fugazi), Iggy Pop, Kathleen Hanna, Kristen Stewart, Michael J. Fox, Michelle Cho, Miley Cyrus and laced with thrilling archival footage, BAD REPUTATION offers a wild ride as Jett and her close friends tell you how it really was in the burgeoning '70s punk scene and the rocky road to rock stardom decades on.

Jett became mega-famous from the number-one hit 'I Love Rock n Roll' but that's only part of the story. That fame intensified with the music video's endless play on MTV, world tours and countless further hits including 'I Hate Myself for Loving You' -- but that staple of popularity cannot properly define a musician.

Jett put her hard work in long before, ripping it up onstage as the backbone of the hard-rock legends The RUNAWAYS, starting her record label out of the trunk of a car after being rejected by 23 producers, and influencing many musicians -- both her cohort of punk rockers and generations of younger bands -- with her no-bullshit style.

BAD REPUTATION is directed by Kevin Kerslake, the legendary music video director turned acclaimed documentary maker behind Nirvana's 'Come As You Are', REM's 'The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite', and Green Day's 'Brain Stew/Jaded'. Among his other documentaries are BOB MARLEY LEGEND REMIXED (2013) and AS I AM: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DJ AM (2015).

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Soundtrack Details for JOAN JETT Documentary 'Bad Reputation'
from: filmmusicreporter.com
By Daily Film Music News

Legacy Recordings will release a soundtrack album for the documentary Bad Reputation. The album features the classic songs from the movie performed by JOAN JETT and her bands The BLACKHEARTS and The RUNAWAYS, as well as Bikini Kill's Rebel Girl (produced by Jett), Fea's song Feminazi and Jett's, Miley Cyrus' & Laura Jane Grace's cover of The Replacement's Androgynous. The soundtrack will be released on September 28, 2018 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Bad Reputation is directed by Kevin Kerslake and follows Jett from her early years as the founder and backbone of the all-female band the RUNAWAYS during the 1970s punk scene. The documentary premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival and will be released in select theaters and on VOD on September 28 by Magnolia Pictures. Visit the official movie website for more information.

1. Fresh Start -- JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS
2. Bad Reputation -- JOAN JETT
3. Rebel, Rebel -- JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS
4. Cherry Bomb -- The RUNAWAYS
5. Wasted -- The RUNAWAYS
6. Love Is Pain -- JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS
7. Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah) -- JOAN JETT
8. I Love Rock 'N Roll -- JOAN JETT with Steve Jones & Paul Cook
9. Victim of Circumstance -- JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS
10. I Hate Myself for Loving You -- JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS
11. Crimson and Clover -- JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS
12. Rebel Girl -- Bikini Kill
13. I Wanna Be Your Dog -- JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS
14. Fetish -- JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS
15. Change the World -- JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS
16. Feminazi -- Fea
17. Androgynous -- JOAN JETT, Miley Cyrus and Laura Jane Grace

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JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS - Live 2018
from: YouTube.com
By Rock Concerts

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Vintage Photos Of Women In Music Are All The '70s Style Inspiration You Need
from: huffingtonpost.com
By Julia Brucculieri

The women who ruled music in the '70s also knew how to rock the era's most popular trends.

Whether they were wearing peasant tops, silk blouses, flared jeans or neck scarves, there was just something so effortlessly cool about the way these ladies carried themselves. Now, some 40 years later, we still can't get enough.

Rockers like Patti Smith and JOAN JETT were all about androgynous style, while singers like Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac had a more boho vibe. Then there were the divas like Diana Ross and Donna Summer, who had a certain air of carefree glamor about them that we could only aspire to.

We know the 1980s are back in a big way for fall, but we're showing some love for the decade prior. As you get ready to refresh your wardrobe for autumn, take some notes from the ladies below: