Finally, she and Laguna pressed it themselves and sold the records out of the back of his Cadillac after her shows. Jett’s self-titled 1980 debut album was turned down by 23 record labels. Jett befriended songwriter and producer Kenny Laguna, and placed an ad in LA Weekly looking for “three good men.” Joan Jett and the Blackhearts was born and relocated to Long Beach, New York, where Laguna was based. She went to London and recorded three songs with members of the Sex Pistols, including an early version of Arrows’ “I Love Rock ’n’ Roll,” which was to become her anthem. When the fivesome disbanded in 1979, Joan Jett was fiercely determined to keep playing guitar. The Runaways showed me a landscape where girls weren’t nice - they were born to be bad and loved playing with fire! I didn’t know that women were the exception rather than the rule in the misogynistic world of rock. I gazed endlessly at the five Runaways clad in bada– black on their album cover and at fairy queen Stevie Nicks on the cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours. It seemed natural to me that girls were playing rock ’n’ roll. Everyone thought we were cool for knowing about this obscure girl band they’d never heard of. My Uncle Dwayne gave my sister and me the Runaways’ second album, “Queens of Noise,” for Christmas in 1977. Two years later, Jett founded the Runaways. BY KAREN REMPEL | “Girls don’t play rock’n’roll,” 13-year-old Joan Jett’s guitar teacher told her.
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