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‘It’s a shag, not a mullet.’ Joan Jett rasps at me with her smoke filled throat. ‘Technically a mullet is short in front of the ears and longer behind.’ It’s good that she has clarified this, she does not seem the sort of woman that takes much shit and certainly I would not want the terminology of her ‘do to be wrong.
Having started way back when in 1975, with her band The Runaways, Joan was the original bad girl, all leather pants and back combing, ‘two hours sometimes just with the hairspray,’ she confirms. ‘It wasn’t initially leathers; it was glam…British glitter rock, Bowie; that kind of thing. That was The Runaways origins.’
She started The Runaways as a mere kitten aged 15, (she was on rhythm guitar and sharing vocals), the band started to pick up a whole load of attention across the world; and for good reasons, six hot leather clad chicks rocking out, what’s not to like? After five years, the band went their separate ways, and Joan was left to forge a career out of the rock n’ rubble. So, being that shaggy haired multi-tasking alpha female sort, she did. When no record label would take her solo work, she started her own, Blackheart Records. She found ‘three good looking guys’ to play instruments and she partied on as Joan Jett and The Blackhearts, giving forth timeless classics such as ‘I Love Rock And Roll,’ (You might remember one Britney Spears grinding doe eyed and snake hipped to it, but Joan was on it first), as well as ‘Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)’, ‘Bad Reputation’ and ‘You Don’t Own Me’. ... It's a good read, so continue reading...
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Interesting blog, Little Red Book. There is a fascinating generational component to the Runaways story: Joan Jett, Cherie Curie, et al. are members of Generation Jones (born 1954-1965, between the Boomers and Generation X). Understanding the generational context to their story really fills in the picture.
Google Generation Jones, and you’ll see it’s gotten lots of media attention, and many top commentators from many top publications and networks (Washington Post, Time magazine, NBC, Newsweek, ABC, etc.) now specifically use this term. In fact, the Associated Press' annual Trend Report chose the Rise of Generation Jones as the #1 trend of 2009. . I found this page helpful because it gives a pretty good overview of recent media interest in GenJones: http://generationjones.com/2009latest.html
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