I Love Rock 'n' Roll

I Love Rock 'n' Roll by The Strums, Live at Wilberforce College charity show, 15th May 2007, for charity 'Just Giving'.

I Love Rock 'n' Roll is a rock and roll song, written in 1975 by Alan Merrill and Jake Hooker of The Arrows, who recorded the first released version. The song was later covered by Joan Jett and Britney Spears, who both had international chart success with their versions of the song.

The song was originally recorded and released by the Arrows in 1975 on RAK Records, produced by Mickie Most. This version was first released as a B-side, but was soon flipped to A-side status on a subsequent pressing of the record. Although not a chart hit in its original version as a result of non-existent promotion by the band's label, the song has come to worldwide prominence due to very successful cover versions that have been recorded. "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" is on the list of top 100 songs of the twentieth century, according to The National Endowment for the Arts. The song was ranked at number 484 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs.

Joan Jett saw the Arrows perform "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" on a television show when she was touring England with The Runaways. She first recorded it in 1979 with two of the Sex Pistols: Steve Jones and Paul Cook. This first version was not a hit. In 1982, Jett re-recorded the song, this time with her band, the Blackhearts, and this recording became a U.S. Billboard Hot 100 number-one single for seven weeks, effectively launching Jett's solo career. Its success propelled Jett's I Love Rock 'n' Roll album to number two in the U.S.

"I Love Rock 'n' Roll"'s gritty, black-and-white music video received heavy play from the then-young MTV network. In it Jett and the Blackhearts travel to a small, dingy bar and proceed to excite the drunken crowd by performing the song and yelling out its famous chorus. Jett followed "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" up with another cover — her version of Tommy James & the Shondells' "Crimson and Clover" was a top-ten U.S. hit.

In March 2005, Q magazine placed Jett's version of the song at number 85 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.

A cover version based on the 1982 recording with The Blackhearts was later recorded to appear in the Playstation 2 video game Guitar Hero.

"I Love Rock 'n' Roll" is the fourth European single released by dance-pop singer Britney Spears from the album Britney during the second quarter of 2002. The song was used in her 2002 movie Crossroads. Spears performs it in a karaoke bar.

Spears has publicly admitted the original song to be one of her favorites. Spears listened to The Arrows' original Mickie Most-produced version just before she recorded the song, according to her Jive A&R man Steve Lunt. When promoting the single's release she infamously attributed the hit version of the song to Pat Benatar instead of Jett, although she claims this was a remark made in sarcasm rather than a mistake.

"I Love Rock 'n' Roll" is an often-covered song, and has been notably recorded by such artists as:

Joe Piscopo
Hayseed Dixie
Five (sampled for "Everybody Get Up")
Reverend Run sampled the song for his song "Mind on the Road" on his solo project Distortion.
Ghoti Hook
Dragon Ash (as "I Love Hip Hop")
"Weird Al" Yankovic (parody, as "I Love Rocky Road")
Griva (as "I law Myroslaw")
The Dresden Dolls
In Germany:
1995 - Guildo Horn und Die Orthopädischen Strümpfe - Ich find Schlager toll
2001 - Thomas Gottschalk & Die besorgten Väter - What happened to Rock 'n' Roll
Former Premier of Victoria Joan Kirner covered Joan Jett's "I Love Rock 'n' Roll", accompanied on guitar by her former health minister David White who actually did play the guitar, for a spoof segment on The Late Show.
This song was not covered by AC/DC despite the claims of some P2P networks.
Music promoter and presenter of 'The Pod' Steve Oliver, collects cover versions of the song. He regularly posts blogs and bulletins on his myspace pages with progress on this.


Guest Vocals - Claire Wilson
Guitar - Liam 'Fozzy' Foster
Bass - Alex Blackburne
Drums - James Pickering

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[redd5674]

The song sound good. When you play a song it's not about wether not you make it sound excatly like the orignal it's about making it your own I think they did a great job with the song.

[AlexBRFC]

Thanks very much! Try telling that to some of the other people who have commented on the video!

[kristiskloset]

Does she make up the words as she sings??? Or is it just me??? :o)

[AlexBRFC]

It's just you - nobody else cares...

[TicTac202]

she got some of the lyrics wrong

[AlexBRFC]

and...

[blijegup1992]

she sings terribly and she sings the wrong lyrics:P

[LakinLovesGreenDay]

wow.....

my ears are bleeding.....

please kill me!

[mviolet97]

ou kinda dont sound like joan jett and suck!

[DannyWay03]

get the lyrics right before going on stage.

and turn that guitar UP!!!!

[MrsJoeJonasLADUH]

chrap wast of time

[araceli888]

lol : ]

[thefistoftruth]

It is NOT! This is very good in fact.

[horsesloverme]

CRAP !!!!

[halkvideos]

good voice, but the whole thing is sluggish..needs to be tighter-sharper

[Cutingwoodlol]

i love rock and rick roll!!!!

[snakesrcute]

wow! you have a gr8 voice!!!