At 75, Suzi Quatro is still shaking her ass – and, crucially, there is no silence. There is instead the same devil-gate drive that propelled 14-year-old Susan Kay Quatro to join all-female garage rock band the Pleasure Seekers with her sister before most of us had worked out how to tune a transistor radio. Precursor to The Runaways, to Pat Benatar, to Courtney Love. Bass slung low, chin set high. Suzi didn’t so much kick down the door of rock’s boys’ club as remove the hinges and pawn them for (17 bottles of) Schlitz.
Freedom, her third album in collaboration with her son LR Tuckey, knows all this. How could it not? This is a record about identity, legacy, survival. About Suzi being Suzi. ‘I remember walking along, dreams in my pockets/Singing my songs…
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Since first bursting onto the scene with her classic Number One hit singles ‘Can The Can’ and ‘Devil Gate Drive’, Suzi Quatro has sold over 50 million records worldwide and is recognized as a true rock ‘n’ roll legend and feminist icon. Over her 50-year career, Suzi has inspired countless artists from Joan Jett to Debbie Harry and KT Tunstall. She is also known for her role as the Leather Tuscadero in ‘Happy Days’.
A’s, B’s & Rarities is a collection putting the spotlight on her classic ‘70s singles. Packed with hits including ‘The Wild One’, ‘Devil Gate Drive’, ’48 Crash’ and ‘Can The Can’, alongside the Quatro-penned B-sides which accompanied those iconic rock singles.
Out-of-print on CD for almost two decades…