Suzi Quatro

Not to be confused with Sussie 4.
Suzi Quatro

Suzi Quatro, playing bass guitar, performing in Australia.

Suzi Quatro performing at the AIS Arena, Canberra, Australia on 26 September 2007
Background information
Birth name Susan Kay Quatro
Born (1950-06-03) 3 June 1950
Detroit, Michigan, US
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Singer-songwriter
  • multi-instrumentalist
  • record producer
  • actress
  • radio presenter
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • bass guitar
  • piano
  • drums
  • guitar
Years active 1964–present
Labels
Associated acts
Website suziquatro.com
Notable instruments
1957 Fender Precision Bass
Gibson Ripper
Status Bass Guitars
Gibson Les Paul bass
Gibson EB2
Greco Bass (Custom)
Yamaha BB2000
BC Rich 'Bich' Bass (Custom)
BC Rich Eagle Bass

Susan Kay "Suzi" Quatro[1]:2 (born 3 June 1950, Detroit) is an American glam rock singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actress. She was the first female bass player to become a major rock star, breaking a barrier to women's participation in rock music.[2]:1–3[3]

In the 1970s Quatro scored a string of hit singles that found greater success in European and Australian territories than in her homeland. Following a recurring role as bass player Leather Tuscadero on the popular American sitcom Happy Days, her duet "Stumblin' In" with Chris Norman reached number 4 in the USA in 1979.

Quatro released her self-titled debut album in 1973. Since then, she has released fifteen studio albums, ten compilation albums, and one live album. Her solo hits include "Can the Can", "48 Crash", "Daytona Demon", "Devil Gate Drive", and "Your Mamma Won't Like Me".

Between 1973 and 1980, Quatro was awarded six Bravo Ottos. In 2010 she was voted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends online Hall of Fame. Quatro has sold over 50 million albums[4] and continues to perform live, worldwide. Her most recent album was released in 2011 and she also continues to present new radio programmes.

Career

Music

Early years and The Art Quatro Trio

Quatro says she was influenced at the age of six by the American singer and actor Elvis Presley, whom she saw on television.[1]:26 She also said she had no female role model but was inspired by Billie Holiday and liked the dress sense of Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las "because she wore tight trousers and a waistcoat on top – she looked hot".[5]

Quatro received formal training in playing classical piano and percussion. She is a self-taught player of the bass[6] and guitar. Her father gave her a 1957 Fender Precision bass guitar in 1964, which she still possessed in 2007.[5]

She played drums from an early age as part of her father's jazz band, The Art Quatro Trio. Sources vary regarding whether her playing in the band began at the age of seven or eight, and whether the instrument she played was actually percussion (bongo or conga drums).[7][8] Subsequently, she appeared on local television as a go-go dancer in a pop music series.[7]

The Pleasure Seekers and Cradle

Suzi Quatro, at far right, pictured, along with two of her sisters, Patti and Arlene, and Eileen Biddlingmeier (center), in the Pleasure Seekers, 1966

In 1964, after seeing a television performance by The Beatles, Quatro's older sister, Patti, had formed an all-female garage rock band called The Pleasure Seekers with two friends.[8] Quatro joined too and assumed the stage name of Suzi Soul; Patti was known as Patti Pleasure. She would sing and play bass in the band. The band also later featured another sister, Arlene.[7] Many of their performances were in cabaret, where attention was (initially) focussed more on their physical looks than their actual music. They sometimes had to wear mini-skirts and hair wigs, which Quatro later considered to be necessary evils in the pursuit of success.[9] However, they would become well-known fixtures in the burgeoning and exploding Detroit music community.[10]

The Pleasure Seekers recorded three singles and released two of these: "Never Thought You'd Leave Me" / "What A Way To Die" (1966) and "Light Of Love" / "Good Kind Of Hurt" (1968). The second of these was released by Mercury Records, with whom they briefly had a contract before breaking away due to differences of opinion regarding their future direction. They changed their name to Cradle in late 1969, not long after another Quatro sister, Nancy, had joined the band and Arlene had left following the birth of her child.[11]

Work with Mickie Most

A black and white photograph of Quatro and her unnamed backing band. Quatro is holding her bass guitar, standing, and wearing a black leather jacket; her three taller and long-haired male bandmembers are standing behind her wearing dark tee shirts.
Quatro and her supporting band in AVRO's TopPop, a Dutch television show, on 7 December 1973 (Left to right: Len Tuckey, guitar; Suzi Quatro, bass; Alastair MacKenzie, keys; Dave Neal, drums)

Quatro moved to England in 1971, after being spotted by the record producer Mickie Most, who had by that time founded his own label, RAK Records. Most had been persuaded to see Cradle by Michael, the brother of the Quatro sisters who had assumed a managerial role for the band.[8] In common with many in the record industry at the time, Most was seeking a female rock singer who could fill the void that the death of Janis Joplin had created.[9] According to the Encyclopedia of Popular Music, his attention to Quatro was drawn by "her comeliness and skills as bass guitarist, singer and chief show-off in Cradle."[7] She had also been attracting attention from Elektra Records and subsequently explained that "According to the Elektra president, I could become the new Janis Joplin. Mickie Most offered to take me to England and make me the first Suzi Quatro – I didn't want to be the new anybody."[8] Most had no interest in the other band members[11] and he had no idea at that time of how he might market Quatro. She spent a year living in a hotel while being nurtured by Most, developing her skills and maturing. Most later said that the outcome was a reflection of her own personality.[9]

Quatro's first single "Rolling Stone" was successful only in Portugal, where it reached number one on the charts.[8] This was a solo effort, although aided by people such as Duncan Browne, Peter Frampton and Alan White. Subsequently, with the approval of Most, she auditioned for a band to accompany her.[9][12] It was also after this record[13] that Most introduced her to the songwriting and production team of Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, who wrote songs specifically to accord with her image. She agreed with Most's assessment of her image, saying that his influence, at which some of his artists – such as Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart – baulked, did not extend to manufacture and that "If he tried to build me into a Lulu, I wouldn't have it. I'd say 'go to hell' and walk out."[14] This was the height of the glam rock period of the 1970s and Quatro, who wore leather clothes, portrayed a wild, androgynous image while playing music that "hinged mostly on a hard rock chug beneath lyrics in which scansion overruled meaning."[7][lower-alpha 1]

In autumn 1972, Quatro embarked as a support act on a UK tour with Thin Lizzy and headliners Slade. RAK arranged for her to use Thin Lizzy's newly acquired PA system during this, incurring a charge of £300 per week that enabled the Irish band to effectively purchase it at no cost to themselves.[15] In May 1973, her second single "Can the Can" (1973) – which Philip Auslander describes as having "seemingly nonsensical and virtually unintelligible lyrics"[2]:1 – was a number one hit in parts of Europe and in Australia.[16]

"Can the Can" was followed by three further hits: "48 Crash" (1973), "Daytona Demon" (1973), and "Devil Gate Drive" (1974). "Can the Can", "48 Crash" and "Devil Gate Drive" each sold over one million copies and were awarded gold discs,[16] although they met with little success in her native United States, where she had toured as a support act for Alice Cooper.[17] RAK artists had generally not succeeded in the US and her first album, Suzi Quatro, was criticised by Alan Betrock for its lack of variety, for its Quatro-written "second-rate fillers" and for her voice, described as "often too high and shrill, lacking punch or distinctive phrasing."[12] Writing for Rolling Stone, Greg Shaw was also downbeat, saying that the album "may be a necessary beginning".[18]

In 1973, Quatro played on the Cozy Powell hit Dance With The Devil, a track written by Mickie Most while Cozy Powel was part of the RAK rosta./>

Musicians who acted as her backing band around this period included Alastair McKenzie, Dave Neal and Len Tuckey,[9] with Robbie Blunt also being listed by some sources.[19] Tuckey's brother, Bill, acted as tour manager.[9]

With the exception of Australia, her chart success faltered thereafter until a change to a more mellow style[7] produced the 1978 single "If You Can't Give Me Love" that became a hit there and in the United Kingdom. Later that year, "Stumblin' In", a duet with Chris Norman of the band Smokie, reached number 4 in the US[17] Both tracks were featured on the If You Knew Suzi... album. A year later, Quatro released Suzi ... and Other Four Letter Words, but none of her other work had much US success. This featured the hits "She's in Love with You", which made number 11 in Britain, "Mama's Boy" (number 34), and "I've Never Been in Love" (number 56).[20]

Mike Chapman and Dreamland records

In 1980, after Quatro's contract with Mickie Most had expired, she signed up with Chapman's Dreamland Records.[21]:4

In that same year, she released the album Rock Hard; both the album and title single went platinum in Australia. "Rock Hard" was also used in the cult film, Times Square and appeared on the soundtrack album. 1980 also saw the release of Suzi Quatro's Greatest Hits, which peaked at number 4 on the UK charts, becoming her highest-charting album there.[17]

Independence

After Chapman's Dreamland Records folded, Quatro was left without a label.

Her last UK hit for some time was "Heart of Stone" in late 1982. In 1983 another single "Main Attraction" was released. It failed to chart but did become a moderate airplay hit.[17] She commented in an article for Kerrang! in 1983, after playing a successful slot at Reading Festival on 27 August, that she did not care about being in the charts, but was more interested releasing what she wanted to; commenting that she started in 1964, and did not become famous for nine years "I would never accept having my career moulded by other people... I've kept working consistently even though I've not been in the charts." In 1985, her "Tonight I Could Fall in Love"/"Good Girl (Looking for a Bad Time)" single reached number 140 in the UK charts.[22] Quatro also collaborated with Bronski Beat and members of The Kinks, Eddie and the Hot Rods, and Dr. Feelgood on the Mark Cunningham-produced version of David Bowie's "Heroes", released the following year as the 1986 BBC Children in Need single. "Can The Can"/"Devil Gate Drive" were re-released in 1987 as a single and reached number 87 in the UK charts.[22] She was also part of the Ferry Aid charity single "Let It Be", which was a UK number 1, 13 years and 26 days after Quatro's last UK number 1.[23][24]

In December 2005, a documentary chronicling Quatro's life, Naked Under Leather, named after a 1975 bootleg album, recorded in Japan, directed by a former member of The Runaways, Victory Tischler-Blue, appeared.[25][26] In February 2006, Quatro released Back to the Drive, produced by Sweet guitarist Andy Scott. The album's title track was written by her former collaborator, Chapman.[27] In March 2007, Quatro released a version of the Eagles song "Desperado", followed by the publication of her autobiography, Unzipped.[28] By this time, Quatro had sold 50 million records.[5]

On 11 June 2010, she headlined the 'Girls Night Out' at the Isle of Wight Festival. Quatro was also inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends online Hall of Fame in 2010, following an on-line vote.[11]

In August 2011, Quatro released her fifteenth studio album, In the Spotlight (and its single, "Spotlight"). This album is a mixture of new songs written by Mike Chapman and by herself, along with some cover versions. A second single from the album, "Whatever Love Is", was subsequently released.[29][30] On 16 November 2011, a music video (by Tischler-Blue) for the track "Strict Machine" was released onto the Suzi Quatro Official YouTube channel. The track is a cover of Goldfrapp's "Strict Machine", but Quatro's version contains two lines from "Can the Can", referencing the similarity of the tunes for the two songs.[31][32]

In April 2013, she performed in America for the first time in over 30 years, at the Detroit Music Awards, where she received the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award, presented to her by her sister, Patti.

September 2013 Quatro is currently working on an anthology 6-CD box set with her record company Cherry Red Records in the UK. This will have some new material on it, Quatro has claimed that Mike Chapman has written her another hit which will be nicely placed into the anthology of hits that he has already written for her with Nicky Chinn. The as-yet-untitled anthology is scheduled for release in the first half of 2014.

Acting and radio hosting

Quatro is possibly best known in the United States for her role as the bass player Leather Tuscadero on the television show Happy Days. The show's producer Garry Marshall had offered her the role without having an audition after seeing a photograph of her on his daughter's bedroom wall. Leather was the younger sister of Fonzie's girlfriend, hot-rod driver Pinky Tuscadero. Leather fronted a rock band joined by principal character Joanie Cunningham. The character returned in other cameo roles, including once for a date to a fraternity formal with Ralph Malph. Marshall offered Quatro a Leather Tuscadero spin-off, but she declined the offer, saying she did not want to be typecast.[33]

Other acting roles include a 1982 episode of the British comedy-drama series Minder (called "Dead Men Do Tell Tales") as Nancy, the singer girlfriend of Terry (Dennis Waterman).[34] In 1985, she starred as a mentally disturbed ex-MI5 operative in Dempsey and Makepeace – "Love you to Death".[35] In 1994, she made a cameo appearance as a nurse in the "Hospital" episode of the comedy Absolutely Fabulous.[36] She also was filmed in the 1990 Clive Barker horror film Nightbreed, but the studio cut out her character. In 2006, Quatro performed the voice of Rio in the Bob the Builder film Built to Be Wild,[37] and appeared in an episode of the second season of Rock School, in Lowestoft. She has also appeared in the episode "The Axeman Cometh" of Midsomer Murders in the role of Mimi Clifton.

Quatro has also performed in theatre. In 1986, she appeared as Annie Oakley in a London production of Annie Get Your Gun[22] and in 1991 she performed the title role in a musical about the life of actress Tallulah Bankhead. Entitled Tallulah Who?, this musical was co-written by her and Shirlie Roden, adapted from a book by Willie Rushton. It ran from 14 February to 9 March at Hornchurch, England, where it was billed as "You'll be amazed how Tallulah did it, and to whom – and how often!" The show received favourable reviews from the majority of critics.[38][39]

In more recent times, Quatro has hosted weekly rock and roll programmes on BBC Radio 2. The first one was titled Rockin' with Suzi Q, while her second programme was given the title Wake Up Little Suzi.[40]

Musicianship

Songwriting

She started writing songs alone, then collaborated with other songwriters (such as Len Tuckey and Shirley Roden), and now once again mainly writes songs alone.

Quatro's early recorded songwriting was deliberately limited to album tracks and the B-sides of singles. She said in late 1973, that "...  [the] album tracks are a very different story from [the] singles. The two-minute lo-and-behold commercial single will not come out of my brain, but ain't I gonna worry about it."[41]

She describes creating a new song: "From sitting at my piano in my front room, writing down a title (always first), picking up my bass, figuring out the groove, going back to the piano... working on the lyrics, playing electric guitar... and finally I type out the lyrics. Only then is it officially a song. Next it goes down on my tiny 8-track, [with] me playing everything... this is the version all muso's use to get into the tune... then into the studio and we go from there."[42]:2

Personal life

Quatro's paternal grandfather was an Italian immigrant to the US. His family name of "Quattrocchi" was shortened by the immigration authorities because they found it too difficult to pronounce.[43] Quatro's Catholic[44] family were living in Detroit, Michigan when she was born. She has three sisters and a brother, and her parents fostered several other children while she was growing up. Her father, Art, was a semi-professional musician and worked at General Motors. Her mother, Helen, was Hungarian. In this environment, Quatro grew to be "extrovert but solitary", according to Norman, and she only became close to her mother after leaving the US for Britain.[9]

Her sister Arlene is the mother of actress Sherilyn Fenn.[45] Her sister Patti joined Fanny, one of the earliest all-female rock bands to gain national attention.[46] Quatro has a brother, Michael Quatro, who is also a musician.[47]

Quatro married her long-time guitarist Len Tuckey in 1976. They had two children together (Laura in 1982 and Richard Leonard in 1984) and divorced in 1992. Before 1993, Quatro lived with her two children in a manor house in Essex that she and Tuckey bought in 1980. She married German concert promoter Rainer Haas in 1993. In 2006, her daughter and grandchild moved into the manor house again.[1] Towards the end of 2008, Quatro's children moved out of the house and she temporarily put it up for sale, stating that she had empty nest syndrome. Quatro continues to live in Essex, England.

On 31 March 2012, Quatro broke her right knee and left wrist while boarding an aircraft in Kiev, Ukraine, where she had performed the night before. She had to cancel her appearance at the Detroit Music Awards, where she was to be inducted into the Detroit Hall of Fame along with her sisters, scheduled for 27 April. This would have been her first performance in America for over 30 years. Quatro also had to reschedule other concert dates, whilst some were cancelled altogether.[48]

Attitude

In a 2012 interview, Quatro was asked what she thought she had achieved for female rockers in general. She replied:

Before I did what I did, we didn't have a place in rock 'n' roll. Not really. You had your Grace Slicks and all that, but that's not what I did. I was the first to be taken seriously as a female rock 'n' roll musician and singer. That hadn't been done before. I played the boys at their own game. For everybody that came afterward, it was a little bit easier, which is good. I'm proud of that. If I have a legacy, that's what it is. It's nothing I take lightly. It was gonna happen sooner or later. In 2014, I will have done my job 50 years. It was gonna be done by somebody, and I think it fell to me to do because I don't look at gender. I never have. It doesn't occur to me if a 6-foot-tall guy has pissed me off not to square up to him. That's just the way I am. If I wanted to play a bass solo, it never occurred to me that I couldn't. When I saw Elvis for the first time when I was 5, I decided I wanted to be him, and it didn't occur to me that he was a guy. That's why it had to fall to somebody like me.[3][lower-alpha 2]

In a 1973 interview, Quatro sympathised with many of the opinions voiced by the women's liberation movement whilst distancing herself from it because she considered that the participants were

... completely hypocritical. Their leaders stand up there and say, 'We're individuals blab blab blab,' and yet they're all in a group following like sheep. For me, I cannot put the two together ... I'm talking about the masses that follow [the movement's leaders who get press attention] and who have nothing at all to say. It gives it all a very phoney light. I hope they can find a way to apply it to their own lives, because grouping together takes away the whole idea of Women's Lib.[41]

The interviewer, Charles Shaar Murray, considered her viewpoint to be "... somewhat anomalous, because unless the woman in question happens to be well known, she has no way of letting people hear her unless she unites with other women and then elects a spokesman." He also noted the apparent contradiction that Quatro seemed proud that girls were writing to her saying that they were emulating her look and her attitude.[41] In 1974, Quatro believed that, unlike men, women were burdened with emotional responses and that it was more difficult for them to succeed in the music industry because they are more prone to jealousy and thus female audiences tend not to buy the recordings of female artists.[49]

Her unusually free use of swear words in conversation was often picked upon by interviewers in the 1970s,[49] as have been her diminutive stature and boy-ish nature. In 1974, Philip Norman said that

Of all female rock singers, she appears the most emancipated: a small girl leading an all-man group in which she herself plays bass guitar. The image is of a tomboy, lank-haired, tight-bottomed and (twice) tattooed; a rocker, a brooder, a loner, a knife-carrier; a hell-cat, a wild cat, a storm child, refugee from the frightened city of Detroit.[9][lower-alpha 3]

By October 1973, she had featured as a centrefold for Penthouse.[41] Unusually for that role, she was fully clothed, although the feature did include risqué anecdotal captions. Frith noted that while any publicity was a bonus, "Tit-talent spotters don't buy many singles and record buyers aren't yet that frustrated."[13]

Influence

Views of journalists and reviewers

In August 1974, Simon Frith spotted a problem with the formula that was working outside the US, saying that

Suzi's facing a bit of a [commercial] crisis: Chinn and Chapman, having proved their point, are losing interest in her. She's never had their best material (they don't play many games with her) and each of her singles has been less gripping than the one before. Unless they suddenly imagine a new joke, she's in danger of petering out and she lacks the resources to fight back. None of her own musical talents has been needed and so they've been ignored (except on the throwaway B-sides) and while Sweet and Mud have their histories and themselves to draw on for support, Suzi's present has nothing to do with her past and her group was formed only to play Chinnichap music. Mud may become a top cabaret act and Sweet a respected rock group, but Suzi will only be a memory. Mickie Most's skill in the '60s was to make pop music out of British blues and R&B and folk; Chinn and Chapman's skill in the '70s has been to make pop music out of an audience. As this audience ages and changes, so will its music and Suzi Quatro will have been just an affectionate part of growing up.[13]

In 1983, journalist Tom Hibbert wrote that Quatro may have overstated her role as a leading light among female rock musicians. He said that

... it was in the wake of the 1977 punk revolution that the traditions of rock were turned upside down and female musicians truly came to the fore. But Suzi Quatro, with her tomboy sneers, her bass guitar and her stompingly persuasive teen-tunes, had at least laid down a challenge to the male-dominated rock orthodoxy. On stage in the Eighties, Quatro was still conveying energy and excitement – and she still lacked class."[51]

Views of scholars

In his 2008 paper Suzi Quatro: A prototype in the archsheology [sic] of rock, Frank Oglesbee writes that "The rebellion of rock music was largely a male rebellion; the women—often, in the 1950s and '60s, girls in their teens—in rock usually sang songs as personæ utterly dependent on their macho boyfriends...". He describes Quatro as "... a female rock pioneer, in some ways the female rock pioneer, ..., a cornerstone in the archsheology of rock." He said she grew up to become "the first female lead singer and bassist, an electric ax-woman, who sang and played as freely as the males, inspiring other females."[52]

Philip Auslander says that "Although there were many women in rock by the late 1960s, most performed only as singers, a traditionally feminine position in popular music". Though some women (like Quatro herself) played instruments in American all-female garage rock bands, none of these bands achieved more than regional success. So they "did not provide viable templates for women's on-going participation in rock".[2]:2–3 When Quatro emerged in 1973, "no other prominent female musician worked in rock simultaneously as a singer, instrumentalist, songwriter, and bandleader".[2]:2 Auslander adds that in 2000 Quatro saw herself as "kicking down the male door in rock and roll and proving that a female musician ... and this is a point I am extremely concerned about ... could play as well if not better than the boys".[2]:3

People and bands influenced by Quatro

Quatro has influenced various female musicians. Examples are:

Quatro had a direct influence on The Runaways[55] and Joan Jett.[55]

Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist, KT Tunstall, commented in a 2008 interview that the cover photo of her studio album Drastic Fantastic (2007) is based on Quatro.[56][lower-alpha 4]

On 24 October 2013, Suzi received the Woman of Valor Award from the organisation Musicians for Equal Opportunities for Women (MEOW) for her role inspiring and influencing generations of female musicians.[58] The award was bestowed by Kathy Valentine (formerly of The Go-Go's) at a dinner in her honour in Austin, Texas, at the Austin Renaissance Hotel. Suzi performed five songs with a local band that included her sister Patti and Tony Scalzo of the band Fastball on "Stumblin In".

Satire

A Spanish rock band called Suzy & los Quattro released two studio albums on the label No Tomorrow in 2006 and 2008; in the tradition of Ramones and the Donnas, all of the bandmembers except for Suzy Chain list their last name as Quattro.[59]

A Danish band called Suzi & Quadratrødderne released two albums: Glimrende (Excellent) and Absolut Nødvendigt..! (Absolutely Necessary ..!). Suzi was played by Ricky Rocket. Unlike Quatro and her band, Suzi & Quadratrødderne dressed in glam rock style.[60][61]

Musical style

Quatro's music covers several genres. Her primary genres are hard rock,[62] glam rock[63][64][65] and female cock rock. (Auslander analysed Quatro's live performances of "Can the Can" plus "Breakdown" and concluded that she performed as a cock-rocker.[2]:1–2 He writes that "she has appeared on occasion just as a bass player, not a singer, and [also] demonstrates her instrumental prowess with an extended bass guitar solo during her own concerts. By foregrounding her status as a rock player, not just a singer, Quatro declares ownership of the symbolic rock cock.")[2]:3

With The Pleasure Seekers, their musical styles and genres included power pop,[66] garage rock[67] and Motown.[68] Suzi also performs musicals.[69]

Discography

Studio albums

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Live albums

Compilation albums

Singles

Year Title B-side UK Singles Chart[79] Australia US[70] Portugal Ireland Germany
1966 "Never Thought You'd Leave Me" (in The Pleasure Seekers) "What A Way To Die" – – – – – –
1968 "Light of Love" (in The Pleasure Seekers) "Good Kind of Hurt" – – – – – –
1972 "Rolling Stone" "Brain Confusion" – – – 1 – –
1973 "Can the Can" "Ain't Ya Something Honey" / "Don't Mess Around" (US) 1[80] 1 56 – 5 1
1973 "48 Crash" "Little Bitch Blue" 3[80] 1 – – – 2
1973 "Daytona Demon" "Roman Fingers" 14[80] 4 – – – 2
1974 "All Shook Up" "Glycerine Queen" – – 85 – – –
1974 "Devil Gate Drive" "In The Morning" 1[80] 1 – – 1 2
1974 "Too Big" "I Wanna Be Free" 14[80] 13 – – 12 6
1974 "The Wild One" "Shake My Sugar"

(Aust B Side – "The Wild One (slow)")

 7[80] 2 – – 11 15
1975 "Your Mamma Won't Like Me" "Peter, Peter" 31[80] 14 – – – 27
1975 "I Bit Off More Than I Could Chew" "Red Hot Rosie"

(Aust B Side – "Michael")

 54[81] – – – – 34
1975 "Michael" "Savage Silk" N/R 100 N/R – – –
1975 "I May Be Too Young" "Don't Mess Around" 52[81] 50 – – – –
1977 "Tear Me Apart" "Same as I Do (UK – YRAK RAK 248B)" / "Close Enough to Rock 'n' Roll" 27[80] 25 – – – 17
1977 "Make Me Smile" "Same as I Do" – – – – – –
1977 "Roxy Roller" "I'll Grow on You" – – – – – –
1978 "If You Can't Give Me Love" "Cream Dream" / "Non-Citizen" (US) 4[80] 10 45 – 2 5
1978 "The Race Is On" "Non-Citizen" 43[80] 28 – – 11 15
1978 "Stumblin' In" (with Chris Norman) "A Stranger with You" 41[80] 2 4 – 13 2
1979 "Don't Change My Luck" "Wiser Than You" – 72 – – – –
1979 "She's in Love with You" "Space Cadets" / "Starlight Lady" (US) 11[80] 30 41 – 5 8
1980 "Mama's Boy" "Mind Demons" 34[80] – – – 27 19
1980 "I've Never Been in Love" "Starlight Lady" / "Space Cadets" (US) 56[80] – 44 – – 38
1980 "Rock Hard" "State of Mind" 68[80] 9 – – – 26
1981 "Glad All Over" "Ego in the Night" – – – – – 70
1981 "Lipstick" "Woman Cry" – 46 51 – – –
1982 "Heart of Stone" "Remote Control" 60[80] – – – – –
1983 "Down at the Superstore" "Half Day Closing (Down at the Superstore) " – – – – – –
1983 "Main Attraction" "Transparent" – – – – – –
1984 "Can the Can (re-release)" "Devil Gate Drive" – – – – – –
1984 "I Go Wild" "I'm A Rocker" – – – – – –
1985 "Tonight I Could Fall in Love" "Good Girl (Looking for a Bad Time)" 140 – – – – –
1986 "Heroes" "A Long Way To Go"/"The County Line" – – – – – –
1986 "I Got Lost in His Arms" "You Can't Get a Man with a Gun" – – – – – –
1986 "Wild Thing" "I Don't Want You" – – – – – –
1987 "Can the Can" (re-release) "Devil Gate Drive" 87 – – – – –
1987 "Let It Be" (one of about fifty singers in the chorus) "Let It Be (Gospel Jam Mix)" 1 – – – – –
1988 "We Found Love" "We Found Love" (Instrumental) – – – – – –
1989 "Baby You're a Star" "Baby You're A Star" (Instrumental) – – – – – –
1991 "Kiss Me Goodbye" "Kiss Me Goodbye" (Instrumental) – – – – – –
1991 "The Great Midnight Rock 'n' Roll House Party" "Intimate Strangers" – – – – – –
1992 "Love Touch"
"Love Touch" (Single Version)		 "We Found Love" – – – – – –
1992 "Hey Charly" – – – – – –
1992 "I Need Your Love" "The Growing Years" – – – – – –
1993 "Fear of the Unknown" (Radio Version) "And so to Bed" – – – – – –
1994 "If I Get Lucky" (Radio Version) "If I Get Lucky" (Long version) – – – – – –
1994 "Peace on Earth" (Radio edit)
"Peace on Earth" (Album Version)		 "Frosty the Snowman" – – – – – –
1995 "What Goes Round" (Radio Edit)
"What Goes Round" (Album Version)		 "Four Letter Words" (Remix version) – – – – – –
1996 "If You Can't Give Me Love (remix)" "Empty Rooms" – – – – – –
2006 "I'll Walk Through the Fire with You" – 1178 – – – – –
2010 "Singing with Angels" (Australian September tour limited edition) – – – – – –
2011 "Whatever Love Is" – – – – – –

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Filmography

Television

Acting
Guest appearances

Cinema

Honours and awards

Bravo Otto

Bravo is the largest magazine for female teenagers in German-speaking Europe. Each year, the readers of this magazine select the Bravo Otto award winners.

Quatro has won the following Bravo Otto awards:[86]

Queens of British Pop

In April 2009, BBC TV selected Quatro as one of twelve Queens of British Pop.[87]

See also

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Quatro appears to have changed her look after the failure of Rolling Stone. Simon Frith wrote in August 1974 that when Most had first introduced him to her, she was "... a musician and not a glamour girl. ... Her press photos showed a thoughtful, natural, healthy girl in jeans and a singlet; she was sitting in a field and looking at the sky, clearly a singer-songwriter – sexy, but in an adult sort of way" and that this image was changed after "Rolling Stone": "Underwear is what Suzi Quatro doesn't wear anymore. Since May 1973, she's never been seen in anything but soft leather cat suits with zips down the front. No bra, no panties, but lots of chains and big boots. She put her band together. It's got three men in black vests and biceps."[13]
  2. ↑ Quatro actually had her "Elvis moment" on 6 January 1957, when she was six years old, not five. With her older sister Arlene, she was watching the third (and final) appearance of Elvis Presley on The Ed Sullivan Show. Arlene was screaming as Elvis sang "Don't Be Cruel". When he sang "Mmmmmm", Quatro had her first sexual thrill (but did not know what it was). Then their father (Art) entered the room, said "That's disgusting", and switched off the television. At this point Quatro decided that she wanted to be Elvis. Art later brought home a copy of Elvis singing "Love Me Tender" and conceded "OK, dammit – so the kid can sing!"[1]:26[3]
  3. ↑ Quatro has a tulip tattoed on her shoulder and a star on her wrist.[50]
  4. ↑ In March 2011, Quatro suggested that KT Tunstall would be an ideal person to play the lead role in any theatre show based on Quatro's own life.[57]

Citations

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