Source: Good News Network
Happy 60th birthday to Joan Jett, who took her mother’s maiden name and jetted to fame as the founding member and singer of The Runaways and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. When she was 14, she quit guitar lessons because she didn’t want to learn folk songs, and later made three albums certified Platinum or Gold.
The songwriter is known for hits like “I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll,” “Cherry Bomb,” and “Bad Reputation“—from her 1980 debut LP of the same name. The film, The Runaways, chronicled the band’s career, and starred Twilight’s Kristen Stewart playing Jett. WATCH Jett and a young Michael J. Fox rock out together on guitars, doing Springteen’s Light of Day… (1958)This song is the closing tune from the film Light of Day, where Jett and Fox portray rockers in a bar band. (2010 photo by Jessie Pearl, CC license)
MORE Good News on this Day:
- The (first) French Republic was established following the revolution (1792)
- President Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that all slaves in rebel states should be freed beginning in January of the following year (1862)
- Independence Day in Bulgaria (1908); and Mali (1960)
- Fiddler on the Roof, a play set in 1905 Russia, opened on Broadway and later became the first musical theater run in history to surpass 3,000 performances (1964)
- The Dead…
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