Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
"I Love Rock'n Roll"
Single / B-side: "You Don't Know What You've Got", "Love Is Pain", "You're Too Possissive"
Released: 20 January 1982
Album: I Love Rock'n Roll (Released: 18 Novenber 1981)
Writers: Alan Merrill, Jake Hooker
Label: Boardwalk
songfacts: I Love Rock'n Roll by Joan Jett
allmusic: Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - I Love Rock'n Roll
rollingstone: 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
rollingstone: Rock and- Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2015: 10 Outstanding Performances
"I Love Rock'n Roll"
Single / B-side: "You Don't Know What You've Got", "Love Is Pain", "You're Too Possissive"
Released: 20 January 1982
Album: I Love Rock'n Roll (Released: 18 Novenber 1981)
Writers: Alan Merrill, Jake Hooker
Label: Boardwalk
"I Love Rock 'n' Roll" is a rock song written in 1975 by Alan Merrill and Jake Hooker of Arrows, who recorded the first released version. The song was later made famous by Joan Jett & The Blackhearts in 1982.
Joan Jett saw Arrows perform "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" on their weekly UK television series Arrows when she was touring England with The Runaways in 1976. She first recorded the song in 1979 with two of the Sex Pistols: Steve Jones and Paul Cook. This first version was released on vinyl in 1979 on Vertigo records as a B-side to "You Don't Own Me". In 1981, Jett re-recorded the song, this time with her band, The Blackhearts. This recording became a U.S. Billboard Hot 100 number-one single for seven weeks. Billboard ranked it at the No. 3 song for 1982. The single was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, representing two million units shipped to stores with Jett's I Love Rock 'n' Roll album reaching number two on the Billboard 200.
Joan Jett's version has received many accolades, including: Ranking #85 on Q magazine March 2005 list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks, ranking #484 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of "the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time", ranking #56 in Billboard's Greatest Songs of all time. Jett's version also ranked #89 in the list 100 Greatest Guitar Songs and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2015: 10 Outstanding Performance of Rolling Stone magazine.
In the original version, the lyrics are about a guy picking up a young girl and taking her home, which was fairly typical rock and roll subject matter. When Jett covered this, however, it became a song about a girl who notices a guy next to a jukebox and brings him home to have sex. Other hit songs like "Physical" by Olivia Newton John and "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" by Pat Benatar also had sexual overtones, but Jett sang about aggressively pursuing the guy, which for many women made this a female-empowerment anthem. This song helped shape Jett's image as a tough, confident rock star and became an inspiration to many female musicians.
"I Love Rock 'n' Roll"'s black-and-white music video received heavy play from the just-launched MTV network. In it, Jett and The Blackhearts travel to a small, dingy bar and proceed to excite the drunken crowd by performing the song and yelling out its chorus. A snippet of Jett's 1981 "Bad Reputation" is featured at the beginning of the video. The video was originally in color, but it was converted to black and white because Jett was ultimately displeased with the look of her red leather jumpsuit in color.
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| Joan Jett's single: "I Love Rock'n Roll", 1982 |
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - "I Love Rock'n Roll" (vinyl 45RPM)
Joan Jett saw Arrows perform "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" on their weekly UK television series Arrows when she was touring England with The Runaways in 1976. She first recorded the song in 1979 with two of the Sex Pistols: Steve Jones and Paul Cook. This first version was released on vinyl in 1979 on Vertigo records as a B-side to "You Don't Own Me". In 1981, Jett re-recorded the song, this time with her band, The Blackhearts. This recording became a U.S. Billboard Hot 100 number-one single for seven weeks. Billboard ranked it at the No. 3 song for 1982. The single was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, representing two million units shipped to stores with Jett's I Love Rock 'n' Roll album reaching number two on the Billboard 200.
Joan Jett's version has received many accolades, including: Ranking #85 on Q magazine March 2005 list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks, ranking #484 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of "the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time", ranking #56 in Billboard's Greatest Songs of all time. Jett's version also ranked #89 in the list 100 Greatest Guitar Songs and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2015: 10 Outstanding Performance of Rolling Stone magazine.
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| Joan Jett's album: I Love Rock'n Roll, 1982 |
Joan Jett - "I Love Rock'n Roll (music video)
In the original version, the lyrics are about a guy picking up a young girl and taking her home, which was fairly typical rock and roll subject matter. When Jett covered this, however, it became a song about a girl who notices a guy next to a jukebox and brings him home to have sex. Other hit songs like "Physical" by Olivia Newton John and "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" by Pat Benatar also had sexual overtones, but Jett sang about aggressively pursuing the guy, which for many women made this a female-empowerment anthem. This song helped shape Jett's image as a tough, confident rock star and became an inspiration to many female musicians.
"I Love Rock 'n' Roll"'s black-and-white music video received heavy play from the just-launched MTV network. In it, Jett and The Blackhearts travel to a small, dingy bar and proceed to excite the drunken crowd by performing the song and yelling out its chorus. A snippet of Jett's 1981 "Bad Reputation" is featured at the beginning of the video. The video was originally in color, but it was converted to black and white because Jett was ultimately displeased with the look of her red leather jumpsuit in color.
Joan Jett - "I Love Rock'n Roll" (B&W music video)
Joan Jett - "I Love Rock'n Roll (Wayne's World 2)
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| Joan Jett 1981 |
In 1993 Joan Jett & The Blackhearts made another music video for the song as part of the Wayne's World 2 soundtrack. In the video appear several scenes from the movie with Mike Myers and Dana Carvey mixed with footage of Jett and her band in concert. It was again released as a single by Warner/Reprise with "Activity Grrrl" as the B-side.
Line-up / Musicians:
The Blackhearts
Joan Jett – vocals, guitar
Gary Ryan – bass, back vocals
Irvan Arifin Harahap – guitar, back vocals
Lee Crystal – drums
Ricky Byrd – guitar (Soon after start of 1st record sessions original Blackheart guitarist Eric Ambel replaced by Byrd)
Link / Review:
wikipedia: I Love Rock'n Rollsongfacts: I Love Rock'n Roll by Joan Jett
allmusic: Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - I Love Rock'n Roll
rollingstone: 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
rollingstone: Rock and- Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2015: 10 Outstanding Performances
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