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Joan Jett has been called "godmother to female musicians with loud guitars and idealistic dreams" by The New York Times, as well as "the queen of punk," "the original riot grrrl," and “the last rock star." With a new Joan Jett and the Blackhearts album due in 2005, Joan is poised at a unique historic moment to honor her past and celebrate her future. At age 15, Joan formed The Runaways, the seminal teenage rock group which changed the rules of rock and roll for girls. The band recorded five LPs with one -- the live album -- becoming one of the biggest selling records in Japan and a U.S. classic of rock, which still sells today. Joan was still a teenager when The Runaways disbanded and she found herself in England and out of work. She was cutting some songs with The Sex Pistols, when her old manager called songwriter/producer Kenny Laguna to see if he could write some songs in a hurry with Joan Jett for a movie about The Runaways called “We’re ...