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Joan Jett Biography

Joan Jett is one of the most popular and richest Rock Singer who was born on September 22, 1958 in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, United States. She became famous as the lead vocalist from Joan Jett & the Blackhearts and was regarded as”the Queen of Rock and Roll with songs such as “I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll.”

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Joan Jett (born Joan Marie Larkin, September 22, 1958) is an American rock singer, songwriter, composer, musician, record producer and occasional 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”. The Blackhearts’ version of the song “I Love Rock ‘n Roll” was number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 for seven weeks in 1982. Jett’s other notable hit songs include “Bad Reputation”, “Crimson and Clover”, “Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)”, “Light of Day”, “I Hate Myself for Loving You” and “Dirty Deeds”.

Jett lives in Long Beach, New York, and has been a NY resident since the late 1970s.

The family relocated into West Covina, California. She adopted Her mother’s name as her maiden name Jett when her parents divorced.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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The band toured around the world and became an opening act for Cheap Trick, Ramones, Van Halen and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. They found success abroad, especially in Japan. While touring England with the Runaways in 1976, Jett first heard the song “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll” when she saw Arrows perform it on their weekly UK television series Arrows. In 2010, The Runaways, a movie about Jett’s band, was released, starring Kristen Stewart as Jett and Dakota Fanning as Currie.

Joan Jett Net Worth

Joan Jett is one of the richest Rock Singer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Joan Jett's net worth $7 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

born Joan Marie Larkin, she stopped taking guitar lessons when she was 14 because she was not keen to learn traditional songs.

Her group recorded a cover version of “Crimson and Clover” and became famous for their debut album from 1980, Bad Reputation.

Joan Marie Larkin was born on September 22, 1958, to James and Dorothy Larkin, at Lankenau Hospital in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia (although some sources list her birth date as September 22, 1960, which is incorrect). She is the eldest of three children. Her father was an insurance salesman and her mother was a secretary. Her family was Protestant, attended church, and went to Sunday school, but were not strict in their religious beliefs. In 1967, her family moved to Rockville, Maryland, where she attended Randolph Junior High and Wheaton High School. Jett got her first guitar at the age of 13. She took some guitar lessons, but soon quit because the instructor kept trying to teach her folk songs. Her family then moved to West Covina, California, in Los Angeles County, providing Jett the opportunity to pursue her musical interests. Shortly after the move, her parents divorced and she changed her name to Joan Jett, because she thought it had more of a rock star sound than her birth name (she has admitted in recent years that “Jett” was not actually her mother’s maiden name, even though that’s what she used to tell people).

Jett’s signature guitar is a white Gibson Melody Maker, which she has played on all her hits since 1977. In 2008 Gibson released the “Joan Jett Signature Melody Maker”. It differs from Jett’s model by having a single burstbucker 3 humbucker pickup, an ebony fretboard and a double-cutaway body in white with a black vinyl pickguard. It also features a kill switch in place of a pickup selector. It retails for $839. There is now also a “Blackheart” version of this guitar introduced in 2010. All specs are the same, but it is finished in black, with red and pearl heart inlays. In June 2019, Gibson announced and released a third signature guitar for Jett, which is a wine-colored ES-339. The guitar was released after two years of research and development with Jett. In regards to her white Melody Maker, the singer once stated:

With Laguna’s assistance, Jett formed the Blackhearts. Laguna recounted, “I told Joanie to forget the band and support herself on the advance money. There was enough for her but not for a band. She said she had to have a band. And I believe to this day that it was the Blackhearts, that concept, that made Joan Jett.” She placed an ad in the LA Weekly stating that she was “looking for three good men”. John Doe of X sat in on bass for the auditions held at S.I.R. studios in Los Angeles. He mentioned a local bass player, Gary Ryan, who had recently been crashing on his couch. Ryan was born Gary Moss, and adopted his stage name upon joining the Blackhearts in 1979, in part to cover for the fact that he was only 15 at the time. Ryan was part of the Los Angeles punk scene and had played bass with local artists Top Jimmy and Rik L. Rik. He had been a fan of the Runaways and Jett for years. Jett recognized him at the audition and he was in. Ryan in turn recommended guitarist Eric Ambel, who was also at the time part of Rik L. Rik. The final addition to the original Blackhearts was drummer Danny “Furious” O’Brien, formerly of the San Francisco band the Avengers. This lineup played several gigs at the Golden Bear, in Huntington Beach, California and the Whisky a Go Go in Hollywood before embarking on their first European tour, which consisted of an extensive tour of the Netherlands and a few key shows in England, including the Marquee in London.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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While the Runaways were popular in Europe, Asia, Australia, Canada and South America, they could not garner the same level of success in the US. After Currie left the band, the band released two more albums with Jett handling the lead vocals: Waitin’ for the Night and And Now… The Runaways. Altogether, they produced five albums from 1975 until they disbanded in the spring of 1979.

Laguna fired O’Brien at the end of the tour, and upon returning to the States, Jett, Ryan, and Ambel moved to Long Beach, New York. Auditions were set up and Lee Crystal, formerly of the Boyfriends and Sylvain Sylvain, became the new drummer. The band then toured throughout the US, slowly building a fan base but struggling to remain financially afloat. Throughout 1980, the band was able to keep touring solely due to Laguna drawing on advances from outside projects. Jett and Laguna used their personal savings to press copies of the Joan Jett album and set up their own system of distribution, sometimes selling the albums out of the trunk of Laguna’s Cadillac at the end of each concert. Laguna was unable to keep up with demand for the album. Eventually, old friend and founder of Casablanca Records, Neil Bogart, made a joint venture with Laguna and signed Jett to his new label, Boardwalk Records and re-released the Joan Jett album as Bad Reputation.

Who is Joan Jett Dating?

According to our records, Joan Jett is possibily single & has not been previously engaged. As of December 1, 2023, Joan Jett’s is not dating anyone.

In 1979, Jett was in England pursuing a solo career. She recorded three songs there with the Sex Pistols’ Paul Cook and Steve Jones, one of which was an early version of Arrows’ “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll”. This version appears on the 1993 compilation album Flashback. Later that year, she returned to Los Angeles, where she began fulfilling an obligation of the Runaways to complete a film which was loosely based on the band’s career entitled We’re All Crazee Now! Three actresses stood in for the departed band members, including Rainbeaux Smith, who was also a rock drummer. While working on the project, Jett met songwriter and producer Kenny Laguna, who was hired by Toby Mamis to help Jett with writing some tracks for the film. They became friends and decided to work together. Jett relocated to Long Beach, New York, where Laguna was based. The plug was pulled on the project halfway through shooting after Jett fell ill, but in 1984, after she became famous, producers looked for a way to use the footage from the incomplete film. Parts of the original footage of Jett were eventually used in another project, an underground film called DuBeat-Eo, which was produced by Alan Sacks but not commercially released.

Facts & Trivia

Joan Ranked on the list of most popular Rock Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Joan Jett celebrates birthday on September 22 of every year.

Jett and Laguna entered the Who’s Ramport Studios with the latter at the helm, and Jett’s self-titled solo debut was released by Ariola Records in Europe on May 17, 1980. In the US, after the album was rejected by 23 major labels, Jett and Laguna released it independently on their new Blackheart Records label, which they started with Laguna’s daughter’s college savings. Laguna remembers, “We couldn’t think of anything else to do but print up records ourselves.”

When did Joan Jett come out?

Joan has publicly classified her sexuality as “all-inclusive” to Rolling Stone and told Out in 1994 that their readers and her fans should “assume away.”

Is Joan Jett married to Kenny Laguna?

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.

Where is Joan Jett today?

In 2015, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Jett lives in Long Beach, New York, and has been a New York resident since the late 1970s.

Is Joan Jett touring in 2022?

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts continue touring the globe with headlining shows alongside fellow rock legends like The Who, Green Day, Heart, and Foo Fighters. After two COVID-19 postponements, the group will return to the road in summer 2022 for The Stadium Tour with Def Leppard, Motley Crue and Poison.

Does Joan Jett ride a motorcycle?

“Through the years, I have had a lot of friends that owned them,” Jett adds. “But I have always ridden on them. I haven’t been the driver.” Now, Jett says she is taking over the front seat to conquer her fear of bikes.

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