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Joan Jett
Joan Jett is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, businesswoman, and actress. Often referred to as the "Godmother of Punk" and "Queen of Rock and Roll", she is regarded as a rock icon and an influential figure in popular rock music.
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entertainment · American singer, songwriter and guitarist (born 1958) · guitarist · singer · actor · singer-songwriter · record producer · television actor · recording artist · musician · also Joan Jett, Joan Marie Larkin, Jett
Born 22 September 1958 · Q231106
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2026· 13 entries
Published video “🍒💣 • 1998”.
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Published video “'Essentials' on Apple Music Joan Jett & the Blackhearts”.
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Published video “Pre-Order Now at JOANJETT.com 🖤”.
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Published video “Thanks for the summer love Europe, can't wait to come back 🖤 (see IG for fan-sourced content tags)”.
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Published video “OUT NOW: 'Bad Reputation' 45th Anniversary Edition LPs, each with exclusive new cover art 🖤”.
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Published video “ILRR 45th Anniversary @barnesandnoble Exclusive Edition LP • Out Aug 21 • Pre-Order NOW 🖤”.
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Public attention spiked: 9,071 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.1× the usual 2,186, with 83 article edits.
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Published video “LONDON TONIGHT 🖤 jjbhlive.short.gy/London2026 🎟️🇬🇧”.
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Published video “THANK YOU GLASGOW 🖤🏴”.
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Published video “TONIGHT 7/7 • 📍Wolverhampton, UK • jjbhlive.short.gy/Wolverhampton2026 🖤🇬🇧”.
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Published video “"Change The World" // Glasgow // July 2nd, 2026 🏴”.
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Joan Jett and the Blackhearts went on their first UK headline tour in 16 years
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2024· 1 entry
Jett contributed guitar to a re-release of Mark Knopfler's 1983 instrumental rock track "Going Home: Theme of the Local Hero" in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust
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2023· 1 entry
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts released the six song extended play (EP), Mindsets
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2022· 1 entry
The first acoustic album ever recorded by the band, featuring "Bad Reputation" and "Crimson and Clover"
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2021· 1 entry
It was announced that to celebrate the 40th anniversaries of Jett's first two studio albums, Bad Reputation and I Love Rock 'n Roll, Z2 Comics was releasing two graphic novels titled Joan Jett and the Blackhearts – 40x40
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2019· 1 entry
English YouTuber, musician, and blogger LadBaby released a parody of "I love Rock 'n Roll", changing the Jett's passion for rock music with that for sausage rolls
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2018· 1 entry
Released album “Bad Reputation: Music From the Original Motion Picture”.
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2016· 1 entry
Former Runaways guitarist Lita Ford revealed in her memoir that she temporarily quit the band because the other members were "all gay", saying "First I found out that Sandy [West], the one I had bonded with the most, was
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2015· 3 entries
“Anyone who truly knows me understands that if I was aware of a friend or bandmate being violated, I would not stand by while it happened. For a group of young teenagers thrust into”
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And the Blackhearts were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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Jett stated "Anyone who truly knows me understands that if I was aware of a friend or bandmate being violated, I would not stand by while it happened
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2014· 1 entry
Alternative Press magazine held its first-ever Alternative Press Music Awards, and Jett received the AP Icon Award
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2010· 1 entry
The Runaways, a biographical drama film about the Runaways, was released, starring Kristen Stewart as Jett and Dakota Fanning as Cherie Currie
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2009· 1 entry
Mattel released a Joan Jett Barbie doll
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2008· 4 entries
Appeared in the Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode "Reunion" as a rock and roll talk show host who is murdered
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Jett made a cameo appearance in Darren Lynn Bousman's musical film Repo
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Gibson manufactured a signature model of her Melody Maker, a white double cutaway with a zebra humbucker and "kill" toggle switch
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Gibson released the "Joan Jett Signature Melody Maker" guitar
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2006· 1 entry
Responded to an interviewer who had asked her when she had "come out" as a lesbian by saying, "I never made any kind of statement about my personal life on any level
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2005· 2 entries
Jett and Laguna celebrated the 25th anniversary of Blackheart Records with a sellout show at Manhattan's Webster Hall
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Jett and Laguna signed punk rock band the Vacancies and produced their second studio album, A Beat Missing or a Silence Added (reaching the top 20 in CMJ Music Charts), and their third studio album, Tantrum (2007)
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2004· 3 entries
Jett and Laguna produced the fourth and final studio album No Apologies by the pop punk band the Eyeliners, after signing them
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When Zapata's murderer, Jesus Mezquia, was brought to trial and convicted
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Jett narrated Cam Archer's short film, Godly Boyish, about two teenagers who share suicidal fantasies
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2003· 1 entry
And 2023, and being named West Hollywood's Rock Legend in 2013
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2002· 1 entry
Jett appeared in the buddy drama film By Hook or by Crook in the role of News Interviewee
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2000· 1 entry
Jett appeared in the Broadway theatre production of The Rocky Horror Show in the role of Columbia
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1997· 2 entries
Jett was featured on the We Will Fall: The Iggy Pop Tribute album
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Appeared on the sitcom Ellen, in the episode "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah", performing the title song
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1995· 1 entry
Released ep “1979”.
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1994· 1 entry
The Blackhearts released the well-received studio album Pure and Simple, which featured tracks written with Babes in Toyland's Kat Bjelland, L7's Donita Sparks and Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna
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1993· 1 entry
Jett and Laguna released Flashback, a compilation album of various songs on their own Blackheart Records
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1992· 1 entry
Was a guest star in "Free Fall", a first-season episode of the science fantasy action-adventure television series Highlander: The Series
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1990· 2 entries
The Blackhearts had a song on Days of Thunder's soundtrack, "Long Live the Night", written by Jett with Randy Cantor and Michael Caruso
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Released album “The Hit List”.
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1984· 2 entries
The comic strip Bloom County included a character named Tess Turbo, with a backing band called the Blackheads
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After she became famous, producers looked for a way to use the footage from the incomplete film
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1983· 1 entry
Musician "Weird Al" Yankovic released a parody of "I Love Rock 'n Roll" entitled "I Love Rocky Road", changing the Jett's passion for rock music with that for rocky road ice cream
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1981· 1 entry
Released ep “Mama Weer All Crazee Now”.
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1980· 1 entry
Released album “Bad Reputation”.
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1979· 2 entries
Returned to Los Angeles, where she began fulfilling an obligation of the Runaways to complete a film that was loosely based on the band's career titled We're All Crazee Now
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Jett was in England pursuing a solo career
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1976· 1 entry
Jett first heard the song "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" when she saw Arrows perform it on their weekly UK television series Arrows
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1967· 1 entry
Jett's family moved to Rockville, Maryland, where she attended Randolph Junior High School and Wheaton High School
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1958· 2 entries
At Lankenau Hospital in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, to James and Dorothy Larkin
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Born 1958-09-22.
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