Sandy and Lita wanted to move towards heavy rock. Cherie had left 18 months previously to make mellower music. 'There was tension, but that wasn't what broke us up. Jett recalls a UK visit in 1976 when she 'arrived as a glam rocker and went home a punk'. The career of The Runaways spanned two eras - glam rock and punk. I was a fan of records with big riffs, like David Bowie's Rebel Rebel.' As a guitarist, I didn't try anything fancy. 'I thought music was a liberal world, but a lot of people thought girls couldn't play rock 'n' roll. They toured with Van Halen and Tom Petty, but commercial success came mostly overseas, particularly in Europe and Japan.
'I didn't want a big fight, so we played one, last gig on New Year's Eve in 1978, and ended it there.' Despite co-writing many of their own songs, the band were mocked by the American rock establishment. Jett, an accomplished guitarist, formed The Runaways with singer Cherie Currie, drummer Sandy West, bassist Jackie Fox and lead guitarist Lita Ford in 1975. The leather jackets and heavy eye make-up were my teenage armoury. 'I'm a tomboy, and I've always felt tough,' she says. The only comparable figure is Chrissie Hynde, and even Hynde' s first hits with The Pretenders came four years after Jett started The Runaways. Despite her teenage years in California, Jett's accent retains an East Coast twang. Sitting in a London hotel, dressed in black and with that shaggy haircut intact, she is every inch the tough rocker. As executive producer, she oversaw the making of The Runaways film. Now 51, she holds the anti-corporate ideals of the Seventies dear, but is shrewd enough to run her own record label. When my family saw the movie, they thought it was footage of me!' I wanted her to understand me as a musician, but I wanted her to get me as a person, too. I gave her live tapes from 1976 and tapes of me speaking when I was 14 to help with the accent. 'I spent hours telling her the intimate details about the Runaways,' she continues.
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And Jett - who went on to forge a solo career with million-selling singles, and has just released a Greatest Hits album - is full of praise for 20-year-old Stewart. The Runaways tells the story of the world's first all-female teenage rock band, five girls from the Los Angeles suburbs who blazed a chaotic trail through the Seventies. I wanted to make sure that nothing got too far - what's the word - afield? So, this is a movie, so there are a few embellishments, but it's based on a lot of factual things, and I just wanted to stay around and make sure that it was in the realm of reality.Nailed it: Joan Jett, left, has been full of praise for Kristen Stewart, right, after she portrayed The Runaways singer
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I also wanted to watch the movie production. They did a lot of their own research, and then Cherie Currie got to work with Dakota Fanning, which I'm sure was helpful for Dakota.Īnd I was there on set every day, watching Kristen, to be there for her, if she needed to ask me any questions. So, I think a lot of it comes down to the actors, that they took it so seriously. I decided, once I was going to sell them my life rights and stuff, that I wanted to be involved in all of it, and be there as much as possible.Īnd once I met Kristen Stewart, and talked to her about the role, and about her take on it, I was really pretty confident that she was going to have what it takes to get where she needed to get. I figured, all they could do was screw it up. "I never wanted a movie in the first place. She also told movies.ie that Kristen Stewart of 'Twilight ' fame did a great job in the new movie playing her. Want to explore that a little bit more when I have the time. " My father was Irish, and I believe he came from County Mayo. Joan Jett who will be played by Kristen Stewart in the new movie 'The Runaways'has stated one of her aims is to find her Irish roots.
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