Title: Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - I Love Rock 'N Roll

Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1981, Rock, Hard Rock, Los Angeles

Matrix #: NB1-33243

Condition: VG+, sounds great, lots of very light marks

Cultural Facts:

1. Personal Struggle After the Runaways collapsed, Joan was rejected by roughly 23 labels in the U.S., so she and Kenny Laguna financed and released her music themselves.
2. Scene Ecology Blackheart Records grew out of that rejection, making Joan one of the first women in rock to build a serious artist-controlled indie label.
3. Media Narrative The title track was a cover of a little-known song by the Arrows, but Joan’s version was the one that turned it into an American cultural fixture.

4/4/2026 CC