Joan Jett and The Blackhearts Shout (live in Germany 1982)

By playing pure and simple rock roll without making an explicit issue of her gender, Joan Jett became a figurehead for several generations of female rockers. Jett s brand of rock roll is loud and strippeddown, yet with overpowering hooks a combination of the Stones tough, sinewy image and beat, AC, DC chords, and glam rock hooks. As the numerous covers she has recorded show, she adheres both to rock tradition and breaks with it she plays classic threechord rock roll, yet she also loves the tra