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Documentary: Joan Jett

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Marc Myers
Apr 10, 2020
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Female guitar and bass rockers were a rare breed back in 1975. You can almost count them on one hand. There were sisters June (guitarist) and Jean Millington (bassist) in Fanny, and bassist-singer Suzi Quatro and guitarist Bonnie Raitt in the early 1970s along with Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart in the mid-'70s. There were plenty of female lead singers, …

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