Going For The Gold: Joan Jett And The Blackhearts
Joan Jett hates herself for loving you. (YouTube)
Over the course of her career Joan Jett has won herself a gold and two platinum albums along with a platinum single. Let’s take a survey of the million-seller landscape trod by one Joan Marie Larkin.
Technically, it was Joan Jett and the Blackhearts who won the shiny discs (not just “Joan Jett,” who recorded two albums under her own name).
The first of their platinum albums also yielded their lone platinum single. Ubiquitous on the radio and on MTV, “I Love Rock and Roll” (the single) and I Love Rock and Roll (the album) both won awards on the same day: April 12, 1982. That’s when the single when gold and the album went platinum. The single would take significantly longer to hit platinum — nearly 10 years, if fact — but ultimately scored the framed shiny disc in September 1992.
Jett and the Blackhearts’ one gold album came a couple of years after I Love Rock and Roll. Simply entitled Album, it was released in 1983, featured their covers of Sly and the Family Stone‘s “Everyday People” and the Stones’ “Star Star” and went gold within a few months of its release.
After a misstep with their 1984 record, Glorious Results of a Misspent Youth, Jett and company rolled platinum again with Up Your Alley. The 1988 release featured the Joan Jett/Desmond Child-penned hit “I Hate Myself for Loving You” and hit platinum in February 1989, less than a year after its release.
You said you'd meet me, now it's quarter to two
I know I'm hangin' but I'm still wantin' you
Hey, Jack, it's a fact they're talkin' in town
I turn my back and you're messin' around
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