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Righteous Shots of Joan Jett

Joan Jett — a book designed by Todd Oldham and assembled from interviews and other sources by Jett herself, with an introduction by Kathleen Hanna — arrives just in time for the release of The Runaways movie. (It’s almost like they planned it that way.) We’ll eventually get around to reading it, but before we even dropped it onto our coffee table to see how it looked there, we flipped through to see the sweet pictures of Jett that comprise most of the book. Subsequently, we decided to share some of them with you. So click through to see Joan Jett smacking her gum, rocking out to thousands, and holding a guitar like it’s a big penis. Thanks to publisher American Modern Books. Enjoy!

At her most confident, Jett would catch popcorn in her mouth while performing.
“Arm-in-Arm Across America” just never caught on.
… and presumably inscribing “suck it” on a fan’s record.
Few remember Elvis’s skinny late period.
Off the shoulder? Jett wears her shirts off the elbow.
Jett finds the fabled Barre Chord of Joy.
“Ouch, hot stage, hot stage!”
“Seriously — where’s the rest of my sheer Snuggie?”
We hope someone told this young lady to take her spike heels off of the couch.
“It’s true: double the flavor, double the fun!”
Little-known fact: Originally, Jett wanted the trampoline room painted “eggshell.”
Righteous Shots of Joan Jett