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Joan Jett: Jett Propelled

Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 24 December 1980

A STILL SWEATING Joan Jett sits in a dressing room at the Channel after her Saturday gig and tugs on her black skintight pants. "This is really stretchy, like leotards — you can really bend all over the place. It's Spandex — like Pat Benatar, you know." She laughs. "I don't think I wear it in the same way."

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