- Along with Johnny Rotten, Soo Catwoman and Siouxsie Sioux, she is credited with creating the London punk look.
- 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.
- Worked as a veterinary nurse and bred Burmese cats.
- Worked in the infamous Sex and Seditionaries shops as a boutique assistant.
- Was in Adam and the Ants before leaving in May 1978.
- Worked as manager for Adam and the Ants.
- She took the single name Jordan at the age of 14, in Seaford.
- She recorded the track "Lou" (about Lou Reed) as a guest lead vocalist with the band Adam and the Ants for BBC 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. Mooney had previously been a bassist of Adam and the Ants.
- Rooke's autobiography, Defying Gravity: Jordan's Story, written with Cathi Unsworth, was published by Omnibus Press in 2019.
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