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Interview Magazine interviewed Joan Jett and we have some new promo pics from "The Runaways"!
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Read a little extract from the Interview below :
MCDONNELL: There's a scene in the film where you're playing guitar, and the teacher tells you that girls can't play rock 'n' roll. Did that actually happen?
JETT: That scene in the movie is basically true. I walked in and said, "Teach me how to play rock 'n' roll." And the guy brought out sheet music and tried to teach me "On Top of Old Smoky." That was the last lesson I ever took. Being told that girls can't play rock 'n' roll-I mean, even as a kid, it was so illogical to me-it's like, what do you mean? That girls can't master the instruments? I'm in school with girls playing cello and violin and Beethoven and Bach. You don't mean they can't master the instrument. What you mean is they're not allowed, socially-it's a societal thing. You're not allowed to play rock 'n' roll because rock 'n' roll means you're covering Sticky Fingers. Rock 'n' roll means "Whole Lotta Love." You go listen to these songs and albums again and realize how dirty they sound, how much sex is dripping from them. And that kind of stuff is very threatening. It seems like really displaced energy to me for so many people to have been so up in arms about The Runaways playing rock 'n' roll. So we were a little outrageous, and part of it was to stir people up. Then again, we didn't want to get any more banned than The Rolling Stones. We wanted to have the same radio access and the same magazine access and all that kind of stuff.
You Can Read The Whole Interview HERE
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