At one point during the filming, one person was introduced to the crowd as having been in the original video as he set up to stage dive for that take. The video consisted of scenes from the movie, with Mike Myers and Dana Carvey, mixed with footage of Jett and her band in a faux concert filmed at Irving Plaza in NYC. In 1993 Joan Jett & the Blackhearts made another music video for the song as part of the Wayne's World 2 soundtrack. The video was originally in color, but it was converted to black and white because Jett hated the look of her red leather jumpsuit in color. A snippet of Jett's 1981 hit " Bad Reputation" can be heard at the beginning of the video. It featured Jett and the Blackhearts traveling to a small, dingy bar and then exciting the drunken crowd by performing the song and yelling out its chorus. The music video for "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" received heavy play by the fledgling MTV network. Billboard Hot 100 number-one single for seven weeks, being the only one for the band. In 1981, Jett re-recorded the song, this time with her band, the Blackhearts. This first version was released on vinyl in 1979 on Vertigo records as a B-side to " You Don't Own Me". She first recorded the song in 1979 with two of the Sex Pistols, Steve Jones and Paul Cook. Joan Jett saw the Arrows perform "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" on their weekly UK television series Arrows while she was touring England with the Runaways in 1976. Arrows performed the song in 1975 on the Muriel Young-produced show 45, after which Young offered Arrows a weekly UK television series, Arrows, which was broadcast on ITV starting in March 1976. This version was first released as a B-side, but was soon re-recorded and flipped to A-side status on a subsequent pressing of the record. In an interview with Songfacts, Merrill said he wrote the song as "a knee-jerk response to the Rolling Stones' ' It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)'."
Merrill wrote both the music and lyrics but gave a co-writer credit to Hooker as part of settling a debt. The song was originally recorded and released by Arrows in 1975 on Rak Records, with Merrill on lead vocals and guitar and Mickie Most producing.
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