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With Laguna’s help, she was able to deliver the chart-topping solo album Bad Reputation and figure out how to eke out an autonomous career without being sucked dry by major record labels.
Unlike several of her bandmates, Jett’s love of music was enough, inevitably shaking her from a jaded alcohol spiral. Victory Tischler-Blue’s 2004 documentary Edgeplay: A Film About the Runaways - available to view on YouTube ( for now) - gives a great rundown of the Runaways’ sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll heyday and the straight-up shitshow that followed. By the time the band broke up in 1979, the girls had fame, but no dough to show for it. The Runaways became the first true girl band of the 1970s, touring internationally, making a dent in the charts, flustering the men who gatekept their industry. The smart but sketchy manager Kim Fowley steered the project and the group quickly swelled to tour van capacity with six members: Joan, Sandy, Mickie, Lita, Cherie, and Jackie. As a teen inspired by the likes of David Bowie and Liza Minnelli in Cabaret, Jett’s passion led her to pursue a band of her own with the gifted young drummer Sandy West. How do you top Joan Jett? According to Kevin Kerslake’s new documentary Bad Reputation, you don’t the most you can do is listen up and take notes.īad Reputation follows Jett’s life from her first guitar circa 1971 to her belated-as-all-hell induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015. My Manhattan celebrity sightings have been all downhill from there. A few years later, it dawned on me that the man was Kenny Laguna, the unlikely bubblegum pop-turned-punk producer who helped her go solo in the late 1970s. A petite woman with a heavily-razored bob, colored as black as her leather jacket, walked past me in a hotel lobby, accompanied by a man a few years her senior. Within a week of moving to New York City in 2014, I’d spotted my first famous person in the concrete wilderness. The 200 Best Lesbian, Bisexual & Queer Movies Of All Time.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.
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