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Released on Mercury Records, also Livin’ on a Prayer (Bon Jovi), Space Oddity (David Bowie) and You Give Love a Bad Name (Bon Jovi)
Written by Joan Jett, also House of Fire (Alice Cooper), Bad Reputation (Joan Jett) and I Hate Myself for Loving You (Joan Jett & The Blackhearts)
Recorded at Criterion Studios, also If I Could Turn Back Time (Cher), Cherry Bomb and American Nights
Part of The Runaways, also Cherry Bomb, American Nights and Dead End Justice
Worth knowing
Counted from cited credits on fono.
9 other songs on fono were recorded at Criterion Studios, by Cher and others
Kim Fowley wrote 8 of The Runaways’s top 10 songs
Kim Fowley wrote 37 songs on fono
Kim Fowley’s most frequent co-writer is Skip Battin (12 songs together)
Credits
All 5 credits
- Written by
- Joan Jett and Kim Fowley
- Part of
- The Runaways
- Recorded at
- Criterion Studios
- Released on
- Mercury Records
- Written by
- Joan Jett and Kim Fowley
- Part of
- The Runaways
- Recorded at
- Criterion Studios
- Released on
- Mercury Records
Connected by credits
Other songs that share a producer, writer, studio or label with this one.
Same writer: Joan Jett
Same writer: Kim Fowley
Same label: Mercury Records
Same studio: Criterion Studios
Same release: The Runaways
Same writer: Joan Jett
Same writer: Kim Fowley
Same label: Mercury Records
Elsewhere
Sources (6)
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1MusicBrainz Blackmail was written by Joan Jett
2MusicBrainz Blackmail was written by Kim Fowley
3MusicBrainz Blackmail is part of the release The Runaways
Blackmail is part of the release The Runaways
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
4MusicBrainz Blackmail was recorded at Criterion Studios
Blackmail was recorded at Criterion Studios
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
5MusicBrainz Mercury Records is the label of the song Blackmail
Mercury Records is the label of the song Blackmail
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
6MusicBrainz Blackmail was released on 1976