Ian had written the song three years earlier, at just 13. Her debut single was about a White girl in love with a Black guy and a society that refused to accept it.
But nothing could have prepared her for what happened at the Valley Music Theater in Encino, California. It was only her fourth or fifth concert. A few songs in, the room turned.
She tried to push through it, but the chanting only got louder. "I knew that I was going to start to cry, and I didn’t want them to see me cry," she said. So she set her guitar down, walked off stage and went to the restroom. "I just didn't know what I was supposed to do."
"He said, ‘Well, you don’t leave the stage because somebody calls you a name,’” she recalled. They went back and forth for what felt like forever. Then something he said finally got to her. "I can't believe the girl who wrote that song is a coward."
The ushers made their way through the crowd with flashlights, shining them on the hecklers. The manager kicked them out, and Ian later learned that those roughly 20 people had come that night specifically to intimidate her.
It would be eight years before Ian had another major hit. "At Seventeen" came out in 1975 when she was in her early twenties, yet she wrote about the pain of not fitting in as a teenager so convincingly that it resonated with a whole generation. It reached No. 3 on the Hot 100 and won her a Grammy.
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