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what's the story between the Pistols and Joan Jett? was she a fan?

massive fan! heres a few interviews of her talking about her love for their music (link 1, link 2). she did a cover version of pretty vacant and shes worn their merch a lot. she even had her own homemade sex pistols shirt back in the 70s

(photo by bob gruen)

when the runaways toured england in 1977, they hung out with the sex pistols during their stop in london. sandy west pushed sid vicious over the side of a boat apparently. after the pistols broke up in 1978, steve jones played live with the runaways while hanging around in LA. jonesy liked the runaways so much that he gifted them a song he wrote called black leather. it appears on the runaways fourth album if you want to listen to it...or you can listen to the guns n roses cover version lol

when the runaways split in 1979, joan flew over to london to reunite with jonesy and he (along with paul cook) played backup for her on a few tracks. two of the three songs they recorded together (you don't own me and don't abuse me) were included on her bad reputation album!

the third song that joan recorded with jonesy and cookie was i love rock n roll. it didnt make it onto the album but showed up as a b-side to her version of you don't own me. in 1981, joan would re-record the song with the blackhearts and thats the version that became a smash hit

during his interview with nardwuar, johnny lydon commented that he viewed the runaways as a fun band. pretty standard take from him as hes always preferred female fronted punk bands over male fronted punk bands

(picture likely taken circa 1978)

im sure joan and johnny had plenty to talk about. rocky relationships with their curly haired managers and being very popular in japan are just two things they have in common

#hoodies q and a #anonymous #sex pistols #joan jett #the runaways #punk rock posting #music ppl #i joke about steve and joan shagging but theres no actual proof they did #besides steve's massive libido and them being the right age for each other

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