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Joan Jett is an American rock musician known for her influential career in rock music. She matters because she has been a significant figure in the development and popularity of rock music in America.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- God's Little Rainbow
- Joan Jett and the Blackhearts 40x40 : Bad Reputation / I Love Rock-N-Roll
- Pure and simple
- The Hit List
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Film & TV
Acting · Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, USA
Joan Jett (born Joan Marie Larkin, September 22, 1958) is an American singer, guitarist, record producer, and actress. Jett is best known for her work as the frontwoman of her band Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, and for earlier founding and performing with the Runaways, which recorded and released the hit song "Cherry Bomb". She has three albums that have been certified platinum or gold and in…
Known for
- FireAid Benefit Concert — Self2025
- One-Hit Wonders at the BBC: Volume Two — Self (archive footage)2024
- Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple — Self2024
- Chuck Zito: An American Story — Self2024
- AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex — Self2023
- Women Who Rock — Self2022
- Joan Jett & The Blackhearts: Live at The Summit — Self2020
- Duncanville — Cheryl (voice)2020
- The Grand Unified Theory of Howard Bloom — Self2019
- Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine — Self - Musician2019
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1958
Discography
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- 394,601
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Joan Jett (born Joan Marie Larkin on September 22, 1958 in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania) is an American rock singer and guitarist. She was the guitarist for the rock group The Runaways from 1975 to 1979, after which she released two solo albums - 1980's "Joan Jett" and 1981's "Bad Reputation" - before forming her own group, Joan Jett and The Blackhearts. "The Hit List" (1990), a covers album recorded by Joan Jett and The Blackhearts, was labeled as being by Jett alone. <a href="https://www.last.fm/mu
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,951x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,994x
- A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 9,258x
- Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children-Present and Lifetime Version (K-SADS-PL): Initial Reliability and Validity Data
· 1997 · cited 8,136x
- Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 7,996x
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Quotes
- “Twenty years ago I thought: "What's the difference between eating a bloody steak and killing my dog, slitting him open and roasting him?" I've always loved animals but it was around the late 80s that I realised I had to go vegetarian. A lot of things converged in my life then – musically, emotionally – but mainly it was my love of animals and spending so much time touring that made me decide I had to change my diet. In the Runaways we used to eat a ton of junk food. So something had to give.”
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Official website
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
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Encyclopedic overview
Joan Jett (born Joan Marie Larkin; September 22, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, businesswoman, and actress. Often referred to as the "Godmother of Punk", she is regarded as a rock icon and an influential figure in popular rock music.
Jett co-founded and performed with the Runaways from 1975 to 1979, with whom she released four albums. After their dissolution, she recorded her debut album and brought it to several record labels with producer Kenny Laguna, all of whom rejected her. As a result, she formed her own independent record label Blackheart Records with Laguna. Her 1980 self-titled debut album (later reissued as Bad Reputation) became her first entry onto the US Billboard 200, bolstered by the attention its title track received.
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