This is a bit of a mixed message from Joan Jett. There's no mistaking what she means by the hand gestures, but there's a twinkle in her eye that suggests she doesn't really mean it. Perhaps she just wasn't in the mood to have her picture taken - something we can all sympathize with!
Looking every bit the rock star rebel in leather, in a dirty backstage room at Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles, Jett was still finding herself with the Runaways when this photo was taken somewhere towards the late 70s.It would be a couple of years later, with the formation of the Blackhearts, that she would truly become the punk rock princess that a generation would fall in love with - a million miles away from the seemingly shy girl in the photo.