Artist: Suzi Quatro
Genre(s):
Rock
Rock: Pop-Rock
Rock: Hard-Rock
Rock: Glam Rock
Discography:
What Goes Around Greatest and Latest
Year: 1999
Tracks: 18
The Gold Collection
Year: 1996
Tracks: 16
Oh, Suzi Q
Year: 1991
Tracks: 13
The Wild One: The Greatest Hits
Year: 1990
Tracks: 20
Main Attraction
Year: 1982
Tracks: 10
Rock Hard
Year: 1980
Tracks: 11
Suzi and Other 4 Letter Words
Year: 1979
Tracks: 10
If You Knew Suzi
Year: 1978
Tracks: 10
Live and Kickin'
Year: 1977
Tracks: 14
Aggro Phobia
Year: 1977
Tracks: 8
Your Mama Won't Like Me
Year: 1975
Tracks: 10
Quatro
Year: 1974
Tracks: 12
Rock 'Til Ya Drop
Year:
Tracks: 20
It's pretty farfetched, as some revisionists ar at present claiming, to view Suzi Quatro as a precursor to the "howler grrrls" of the '90s. Her trade name of mid-'70s glam pop was far more innocuous and, in any case, often supplied by professional songwriters. What she did turn up was that it was possible for a petite woman to act bass, whistle, and wear leather with a reasonable grade of grossness and pride. That, with enough musical meat hooks to cast in the teen pop push, was sufficiency to reel off a series of big British attain singles exactly ahead the coming of tinder, although she remained about unknown in her aboriginal U.S.
To the British audience, it seemed as if Quatro emerged out of nowhere in 1973, just in fact she'd been playing professionally for nearly a 10. While inactive in her early teens, she coupled the Pleasure Seekers, a Detroit set too featuring her sisters Arlene and Patti. One of the few all-girl garage bands wHO played their own instruments, they recorded a fine, gamy single for the local Hideout mark, "Never Thought You'd Leave Me"/"What a Way to Die" (both sides were reissued in the eighties on the What a Way to Die '60s garage compilation). Another unmarried followed for Mercury, and the group even toured Vietnam to entertain military personnel. In 1968, though, Arlene leave office the band to raise her kids (one of whom is actress Sherilyn Fenn), to be replaced by so far some other sis, Nancy.
The Pleasure Seekers became Cradle, which placed more accent on hard rock and original material. In the early '70s, British producer Mickie Most (the Animals, Lulu, Donovan, Herman's Hermits) happened to run across Cradle piece he was in Detroit to work on an album with Jeff Beck at Motown's studios. Most let Quatro know he was interested in working with her as a solo act; sixer months after, Cradle split, and Suzy was on her room to London (Patti coupled the all-woman rock'n'roll band Fanny in Los Angeles).
After her number one single flopped, Most dependent her up with songwriters Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn, wHO were also provision material to the Sweet. The Chapman-Chinn-penned "Canful the Can" went to number one in the U.K. in 1973, and over the next few years the same team would spell around 10 other British chart hits for her, including four Top Ten entries. These amalgamate sparkle and bubblegum in much the same way as the Sweet did, though Quatro was maybe a shade raunchier (without always getting downright scarey). Quatro and her guitar player (and hubby) Len Tuckey did drop a line some of her material, though these efforts were normally imprisoned to albums. In the U.S., though, she could barely get into the Top hundred, though she did get on the cover of Rolling Stone.
Her American fortunes changed in the later '70s, when she had a transient, semi-regular erolia minutilla on the sitcom Glad Days as the guitar-playing, impertinent Leather Tuscadero. In 1979, she made the American Top Five with "Stumblin' In," although this was a duet with Chris Norman. Undoubtedly an influence upon the Runaways and Joan Jett, and thus by extension a meek influence on a subsequent generation of female bikers, she's unbroken a low profile in the '80s and '90s, although she's done some telecasting and theatrical work in Britain.
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