TOMORROW SHOW – 1977 – Joan Jett & Paul Weller Part 2

TOMORROW SHOW – 1977 -Tom Snyder interviews Joan Jett, Paul Weller, Bill Graham, Kim Fowley, Robert Hilburn en.wikipedia.org Joan Jett & Paul Weller Part 2 From a great DVD with clips from the late 70′s of New Wave and punk rock performers www.amazon.com From the Wikipedia article on Kim Fowley… “Later he met a teenaged Joan Jett and drummer Sandy West with whom he founded the legendary all-female punk combo The Runaways. Stories about the rise and fall of The Runaways, and of Fowley’s bizarre expectations of the act’s members vary depending on the source. However, by printing the girls’ ages (as young as fourteen or fifteen) on the back cover of their first album, Fowley helped to seal his Svengali image. Furthermore, according to 1980s interviews with Sandy West and Cherie Currie in publications including The Guardian and The Cutting Edge, members were required to go along with the “special needs” of Fowley and his associates “if they wanted to stay in the band”. According to Sandy West, Fowley told her that Michelle Steele (later of The Bangles) and Ann Boleyn (of Hellion) “were both kicked out because they wouldn’t put out in the way he expected, if you know what I mean”. Tomorrow (also known as The Tomorrow Show and, after 1980, Tomorrow Coast to Coast) was an American late-night television talk show hosted by Tom Snyder. The show aired on NBC from 1973 to 1982 and featured many prominent guests, including Paul McCartney, “Weird Al” Yankovic (in his first televised …