Career
Her style and dress sense—a bleached platinum-blonde bouffant hairdo with dark raccoon-like eye make-up—made her a highly visible icon of the London punk subculture. Along with Johnny Rotten, Soo Catwoman and Siouxsie Sioux, she is credited with creating the W10 London punk look. Taking the single name Jordan as her punk sobriquet, Rooke commuted daily to London from the south coast.
She recalled that her punk image caused problems for her:
In the late 1970s, she served as an early manager for Adam and the Ants.
She recorded the track "Lou" (about Lou Reed) as a guest lead vocalist with the band for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 1 DJ John Peel"s Peel Sessions and often performed the song live with them from mid-1977 up to May 1978 when she left the band. In the 1980s, she managed the band Wide Boy Awake, in which her then-husband Kevin Mooney was a guitarist.
She made a cameo appearance in Derek Jarman"s debut film Sebastiane, and played the lead role in his follow-up film Jubilee as the punk "anti-historian" Amyl Nitrite. She can also be seen in Julien Temple"s The Great Rock and Roll Swindle wearing an "only anarchists are pretty" t-shirt and appearing on stage with the Sex Pistols during their first live television performance of "Anarchy in the United Kingdom" in August 1976.