The book’s divided into 20 chapters, each letting Joan narrate a chapter in her own life.
What about the rest of you? While the text is delicious, what makes the book a beautiful treat to both look at and read are the photos: a documentary record in both B&W and color of iconic photos both staged and casual, from photo sessions for album covers to family snapshots. Oldham’s interviews track the story in roughly chronological order, with a couple of chapters focusing specifically on her videos, and her long-time business partner/best friend Kenny Laguna. While the film is fictionalized, eliding time and compiling several characters into one for the sake of dramatic tension, the creation myth retains some events in common: Jett, an extraordinarily determined teenager, helped found one of the first all-girl rock groups - and when that group plummeted to a fiery ending, she picked herself up and kept going to become the rockstar she always knew she wanted to be. (The film is inspired by Currie’s memoir Neon Angel, which was expanded and released to coincide with the film). The Runaways, Jett’s first band, have been brought front and center this spring with the release of the film The Runaways, directed by Floria Sigismondi, starring Kristen Stewart as Jett and Dakota Fanning as bandmate Cherie Currie. He first heard her music in 1976 when as a teenager in Tehran, Iran, he bought a bootleg tape of The Runaways. Of course he is familiar with her oeuvre and mythos because he is One of Us: a Jetthead.
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Oldham conducted a series of interviews with the founder of the Blackhearts, and referred to many of the thousands of interviews Jett has given in the three-plus decades she’s been on the music scene.
But when it comes to rock music, he’s just a big fanboy - albeit one whose name is above the title of this book (which has an introduction by Riot Grrl Kathleen Hanna). Oldham, of course, has made his name as a top fashion designer.
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I consider myself a professional amateur, as it were: someone who can write clearly and concisely about the things that make me go “EEEE.” This makes me particularly suited to review Joan Jett (Ammo, 2010) by Todd Oldham.
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