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Now Jett is entering uncharted territory for a woman in her line of aggression: that age when male elders like the Rolling Stones and the Who pass into rugged gravitas. Written by Jett, Laguna and guitarist Dougie Needles, the track is a razor-toothed surge of guitars with a hot chorus from the same pop-smart punk-rock pocket as the records that got Jett, 56, into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 18th: the 1981 New Wave anthem “I Love Rock ‘N Roll” her hit covers of Gary Glitter’s “Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)” and Tommy James and the Shondells’ “Crimson and Clover” Jett’s first solo LP, Bad Reputation and The Runaways, her 1976 debut, at 17, with that pioneering all-teen, all-female Los Angeles band. Jett is making new music today with her longtime band the Blackhearts: the title song to a forthcoming film, Miss You Already, by Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke. “Keith Richards had some of that,” he announces with a hearty laugh, as Jett rolls her number on the mixing board before the take. She also has “the best shit,” according to Kenny Laguna, Jett’s manager, co-producer and co-songwriter for the past 35 years. The smoking, Jett says later, loosens up the edges and range of her distinctively craggy voice. And she has a fat, torpedolike joint hanging from her mouth. Her jet-black hair is a riot of feathery spikes. Dressed for rock & roll work in a tight gray jersey, weathered jeans and sneakers, she shakes her arms and bounces on her feet like an impatient boxer. Weiss is also selling personalized autographed copies and more on his website.Joan Jett stands at a microphone in a Manhattan recording studio, almost ready to sing. The Decade That Rocked is available in all bookstores.

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We were on the sly and nobody knew, and we had to climb through broken windows just to get in.” So we went to Vancouver where they recorded the album and shot them in an old abandoned barn, which is where this shot is from. The label said no, we want them to look prettier. The idea was that they were a gang and have a ‘Wanted’ poster tacked to the wall where they were hiding out. They grew beards for a photo shoot at my studio, put on cowboy outfits. “The album was originally called “Wanted Dead Or Alive” after the song. The Slippery When Wet album was a career defining moment for Bon Jovi, a 12x platinum record with classics like “You Give Love A Bad Name” and “Wanted Dead Or Alive.” The road to the album cover traversed through a slippery road itself, with no less than four different concepts, before winding up with the existing cover, which Weiss shot, featuring the words ‘Slippery When Wet’ scrawled on a wet garbage bag by Jon Bon Jovi himself. The original album title was “Wanted Dead Or Alive” (Photo courtesy Mark Weiss The Decade That Rocked (Insight Editions)) This was one of the original cover photos for their breakthrough album Slippery When Wet. Three in a row! That’s pretty nice!”īon Jovi 1986 in Vancouver, CA. But nowadays, I can listen to Sirius radio or Hair Nation radio and look at my phone and there’s my cover shot with Dokken Under Lock and Key, Bon Jovi’s Slippery When Wet and Cinderella’s Night Songs. They’re harder to shoot with weeks of preparation and stress since there’s so much riding on it. I was doing all these great covers for magazines and I’d see my cover photo of Ozzy or David Lee Roth on the newsstand, but they would go away at the end of the month. That photo shoot got me to the next step. My father helped me build the set and he helped me get the room together. They of course didn’t know that when Weiss was hired for the Stay Hungry shoot.

At that he was even singled out and made fun of by the band as part of their act for not moving around enough during the show. Weiss had photographed them live a few years prior, though he didn’t officially meet them. The 1984 Twisted Sister Stay Hungry album cover was the ‘game changer’ moment for Weiss. Dee Snider of Twisted Sister (Photo courtesy Mark Weiss The Decade That Rocked (Insight Editions))