Joan Jett

Joan Jett's trademark brand of rock & roll is simple, direct, and very effective. Using a stripped-down combination of glam rock stomp, bubblegum hooks, and punk power driven home by her raspy, heartfelt vocals, she is equally at home cranking out three-chord rockers as she is breaking hearts with tear-streaked ballads. Starting with her first band in the mid-'70s, the heavy metal-meets-punk Runaways, through her hit-making days in the '80s with the Blackhearts -- when her record flew off the shelves with the classic single "I Love Rock 'n Roll" -- right up until her unexpecte...