Joan, Joni and Jean-Georges

In The Wall Street Journal this week, my "Anatomy of a Song" column was on Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation" (go here). The song is a feminist push-back against the male-dominated record industry in 1981 that found Joan unmarketable because she was a female hard rocker rather than a seducer. For the interview, I drove out to the house of her manager and prod…