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"I Love Rock 'n' Roll" is a rock song written by Alan Merrill and Jake Hooker and first recorded by the Arrows, a British rock band, in 1975. A 1981 cover version by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, released as the first single from her album of the same name, became Jett's highest-charting hit, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and becoming the No. 3 song for 1982. [1]
In conjunction with Joan Jett and the Blackhearts being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 18, 2015, exactly 33 ⅓ years after I Love Rock 'n' Roll was originally released on November 18, 1981, a 2CD/2LP titled I Love Rock 'n' Roll 33 ⅓ Anniversary Edition was released. This commemorative edition paired the original album ...
When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers." [ 4 ] The line "When the words don't get in the way, yeah" and especially the phrasing of "yeah" is a reference to the line "Every other day, every other day, every other day of the week is fine, yeah" from the Mamas & the Papas' song " Monday, Monday ".
"Call Me Lightning" and "Summertime Blues" were later added as bonus tracks on reissues of Bad Reputation and "Louie Louie" became a bonus track on the reissue of I Love Rock 'N Roll. "Star Star" was included as an unlisted "surprise" track on the 1983 cassette release of Album , but was later removed after the original cassette was pulled from ...
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Merrill and Hooker are credited as songwriters because the track contains samples from Joan Jett's "I Love Rock 'n' Roll". [1] "Everybody Get Up" has received a gold certification for sales and streams of over 400,000 units in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at number two on 6 September 1998.
"I Love Rocky Road" is a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic about a man's obsession with rocky road ice cream. It is a parody of the Arrows ' 1975 song, " I Love Rock 'n' Roll ", originally sung and written by Alan Merrill , in the style of Joan Jett and the Blackhearts .
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