The guitarist revealed her strained relationship with Jett which she alleges is due to Jett's 'controlling' manager of three decades, Kenny Laguna. Ford is expected to be inducted at the 2019 Hall of Heavy Metal History in January - the anniversary of the band's final show 40 years agoīy Ryan Parry West Coast Editor and James Desborough For.Ford said it has been difficult to communicate with Jett and claims Joan's manager Kenny Laguna has prevented her from even talking about a return.He's very controlling and he has a real problem with me,' she said 'It seems to me like Joan Jett's manager just runs her life in every way, shape, or form.The guitarist, 60, revealed her strained relationship with the band's frontwoman in an interview with DailyMailTV at the Las Vegas F.A.M.E.Lita Ford said former bandmate Joan Jett is the reason why fans will not see a Runaways reunion next year."Not much, but hopefully we've helped.EXCLUSIVE: 'Joan Jett is very much in Joan Jett Land.' Lita Ford blames her former bandmate for ruining Runaways reunion claiming she is controlled by her manager in 'every way, shape, or form' "I think Suzi Quatro and the Runaways both have made it a little easier for other women rockers," Jett said. Jett said she hoped that the Runaways could help make "being cool" even more accessible, so all the Joanie Cunninghams of the world could be viewed as hip and cool as all the Fonzies. Times described Quatro as "a cranked up, leather-clad rocker in the Presley tradition" who "exuded a hard-edged cool that had previously been off-limits for women." It makes you wonder how many girls watching Leather Tuscadero rock Arnold's diner were inspired to find their inner rockers, too. After seeing Leather Tuscadero rock, she decides she must runaway (get it?) to join Leather & The Suedes. In the episode, Joanie Cunningham is essentially Joan Jett (they even pretty much have the same name!). "She's the one who made think, wow, if she can do it, so can I." "Suzi Quatro was the first girl to get up there and do it," Jett said. Jett said watching Suzi Quatro perform when she was 15 was the moment that she knew she wanted to join a band like the Runaways. Seeing Suzi clad in leather singing classic Elvis songs like "Heartbreak Hotel" must've felt right as rain. That's what makes the Happy Days episode so perfect for Suzi Quatro fans in the audience like Jett. "I was 15 the first time I saw her, and it completely blew my mind," Jett told the Times in 1978.Īnd she noted that: "Suzi, of course, got it all from Elvis." 1 in Japan) was Jett's pure fandom for Suzi's Sixties sound. No doubt what critics were hearing in a Runaways hit like "Cherry Bomb" (well, it was No. It's also evidenced in the songs, as noted by every review forever linking the two seminal female rock acts. Suzi's influence on the Runaways goes further than just looks, of course. Suzi's style clearly helped Jett form her "Bad Reputation." Just look at any photo of Joan Jett, and you'll see Jett never really dropped the Quatro look. The same year the episode aired, Jett told The Los Angeles Times that growing up, before she ever picked up a guitar, she used to dress up like Suzi Quatro. It was a moment that proved to a large TV audience that Suzi Q was undeniably the queen of rock & roll.įor Joan Jett, who was 19 when this episode aired and a member of the pioneering rock band the Runaways, watching this two-part Happy Days episode, "Fonzie, Rock Entrepreneur," must've been like a flashback, to when she was just a teen (well, a younger teen) bopping to the latest hits herself. In 1977 on Happy Days, Arnold's got "all shook up" when rocker Suzi Quatro appeared as Leather Tuscadero to perform Elvis songs for a crowd of dancing teens.
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