I was so excited about this book. After all, Todd Oldman + Joan Jett, how could it possibly suck?! Well, it does.
It's basically a photography book with little else, and seeing as how Joan worked with Todd to put this thing together, there should be much more text. We've all seen *most* of the photos here, there is very little new to us, except for Joan as a baby, little girl and young adult. The rest are publicity, album and video photos throughout the years, but mostly just the 80's, and what's up with that?? There are a couple of pages of handwritten lyrics, and of memorabilia such as the JJ&BH Wonderbread card.
In an interview, Oldham made it sound like he worked laboriously on this book, but considering his design aesthetic, well it is simply not to be found in this book! It's basically mostly black pages with blocked photos, and where is the creativity in that? Seems thrown together, and there *is* no creativity in simply choosing a bunch of photos, mostly from one era, and laying them out monotonously.
This could easily have been a much more interesting anthology had Joan inserted some interesting anecdotes from specific times of her life, her career, or even the photo shoot/photographer. Something. Anything but old quotes we read 20-30 years ago.
A real disappointment for longtime Jett fans.Get more detail about Joan Jett.
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