7 things we learned about Joan Jett from the documentary 'Bad Reputation'
Most people might remember Joan Jett for the smash hit 'I Love Rock n Roll'. But there's so much more than the 1982 chart-topping hit that defines her ever defiant personality. The rock star who turned 60 just last week goes by the epithets 'Queen of Rock 'n' Roll' and 'Godmother of Punk' and is widely considered as the one who paved the way for female rock acts and a beacon for female artists during a more hostile time.
Jett has three albums that have gone Gold or Platinum and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with her band The Blackhearts in 2015. During her career, first with the Runaways and then The Blackhearts, she broke the shackles of a male-dominated scene and practically conceptualized the very first female rock star. Jett's prolific career and struggle to stay in the spotlight through the burgeoning punk scene of the 70s and her battle as an underdog female artist is explored in the documentary 'Bad Reputation', which hits theaters this Friday via Magnolia Pictures.
