Joan Jett & The Blackhearts @ Mornington Racecourse, Melbourne 19-Jan-2019

Joan Jett & The Blackhearts played the sold-out Red Hot Summer Tour concert at Mornington Racecourse on Saturday 19 January 2019. Led by their sixty-year-old American rock icon Joan Jett on lead vocals and rhythm guitar, The Blackhearts are Kenny Laguna on keys, Dougie Needles on lead guitar, Hal Selzer on bass, and Michael McDermott on drums. When the all-female rock band the Runaways fell apart in 1979, Joan embarked upon a solo career and soon former The Blackhearts. Their version of I Love Rock’n’Roll stayed at number-one on America’s Billboard Hot 100 for seven weeks back in 1982. In 2015, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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ABOUT: Paul Miles is an Australian freelance rock photographer specialising in live music photography, who captures the true spirit of rock’n’roll in action by many of the world’s greatest performers. Since 2009, he has shot a vast array of rock music photography: from gigs in world-famous clubs like the Apollo in Harlem and the Whisky a Go Go in Hollywood, to iconic arenas like New York City's Madison Square Garden and Australia's MCG, as well as in retail stores Barnes & Noble, Apple, and John Varvatos CBGBs. He has covered rock shows from Brooklyn to Bangalore, Paris to Las Vegas, Tokyo to Los Angeles, including street concerts in Melbourne's AC/DC Lane and Manhattan's Times Square.

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