Suzi Quatro
Susan (Suzi) Kay Quatro (born June 3, 1950 in Detroit ) is an American musician and actress. In the 1970s she was one of the most successful rock musicians , especially in Europe .
biography
Suzi Quatro has Italian-Hungarian roots. She grew up with her three sisters and a brother with parents Helen and Arthur Quatro in the Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe. The father had his own band, the Art Quatro Trio .
Quatro first performed with her father when she was eight. She then took classical piano lessons until she turned to rock and roll at the age of fourteen . Quatro called herself Suzi Soul and became the bassist in the band Pleasure Seekers , a band from Detroit, in which Quatro's sisters were also engaged.
Like many of the garage bands of the time , Quatro also recorded a single . They achieved local fame with Never Thought You'd Leave Me / What a Way to Die . The successor single, already for the national label Mercury, was a commercial success.
In 1971 the Pleasure Seekers called themselves Cradle and now played harder rock and their own pieces. At that time, record producer Mickie Most saw the group while producing a new record with Jeff Beck in Detroit. He invited Quatro to England to work with her on a solo career. She came to London at the end of 1971 . Two years were spent in the studios to songs to write and record. The first solo single Rolling Stone was a flop in Great Britain , but in 1972 it reached number 1 on the charts in Portugal . Now a band has been put together with which Quatro went on tour.
In early 1973 Mickie Most hired two new composers for his company RAK, Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman . Both wrote Quatro's first number 1 hit, Can the Can . It was particularly successful in Europe , Australia and Japan . In 1974 she received the Golden Bravo Otto in Germany, the Silver Bravo in 1980 and the Bronze Bravo Otto in 1975, 1978 and 1979 from the youth magazine BRAVO .
When she was recording a version of Elvis Presley's song All Shook Up , Presley heard her version and then invited her to Graceland . Quatro refused what she regrets to this day: "I turned him down like an idiot because I was nervous to meet my hero."
In the US, Quatro was offered a television role in the sitcom Happy Days in 1977 . She broke off her tour of Japan and accepted the offer for fifteen episodes.
In 1978 Quatro married her longtime guitarist Len Tuckey in England .
At the end of the 1970s, the collaboration with the RAK label ended. Quatro continued to work with Mike Chapman. The great successes did not return, but in 1978 she recorded the song Stumblin 'In with Chris Norman , which was a great commercial success, especially in Germany. The 1979 single She's in Love with You was also a hit. The German pop singer Bernhard Brink recorded a German version of this title under the title I would be as happy as you .
She was able to prove her acting qualities in several guest appearances in various English series, for example in the episode love you to death of the successful series Dempsey & Makepeace or in the crime series Inspector Barnaby in the episode Mord mit Groove (2007).
Quatro's daughter was born on September 23, 1982, and their son was born in October 1984.
Andrew Lloyd Webber hired Quatro in 1985 for the title role in the musical Annie Get Your Gun . It premiered in 1986 at London's West End Theater . Your engagement in the musical lasted several years. In 1989 Quatro went on a successful tour through the Soviet Union .
In 1992, Quatro and Tuckey's marriage ended. A year later Quatro was working on her musical Tallulah Who . The focus was on the actress Tallulah Bankhead , who was known in the 1930s . In October 1993 Quatro married the German tour promoter Rainer Haas.
Quatro has hosted the radio show Rocking With Suzi Q on BBC 2 since 2000 .
The film Naked Under Leather premiered on December 25, 2005 . In it she plays herself.
In February 2006 the album Back to the Drive was released . In 2009 Suzi Quatro recorded the tribute song Singing with Angels with The Jordanaires (the backing group of Elvis Presley) , which was released in January 2010. In August 2011 her album In the Spotlight was released .
On October 19, 2016, Suzi Quatro received an honorary doctorate in recognition of her services to music from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, England.
Suzi Quatro has lived in England and in the Hamburg district of Sasel since 1971 .
Discography
Studio albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks / months, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks / months, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||||
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| 1973 | Suzi Quatro (in Australia Can the Can ) |
DE4 (15 months) DE |
AT5 (6 months) AT |
- |
UK32  (4 weeks)UK |
US142 (13 weeks) US |
First published: October 1, 1973
Sales: + 80,000 |
| 1974 | Quatro |
DE15 (5 months) DE |
- | - | - |
US126 (10 weeks) US |
First published: November 1, 1974
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| 1975 | Your Mamma Won't Like Me |
DE42 (1 month) DE |
- | - | - |
US146 (6 weeks) US |
First published: May 1, 1975
|
| 1976 | Aggro phobia | - | - | - | - | - |
First published: 1976
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| 1979 | If you know Suzi | - | - | - | - |
US37 (20 weeks) US |
First published: 1979
Sales: + 200,000 |
| Suzi… and Other Four Letter Words | - | - | - | - |
US117 (14 weeks) US |
First published: 1979
Sales: + 100,000 |
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| 1980 | Rock hard | - | - | - | - |
US165 (5 weeks) US |
First published: 1980
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| 1982 | Main attraction | - | - | - | - | - |
First published: 1982
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| 1991 | Oh Suzi Q. | - | - | - | - | - |
First published: September 9, 1991
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| 2006 | Back to the drive | - | - |
CH78 (1 week) CH |
- | - |
First published: February 17, 2006
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| 2011 | In the spotlight | - | - | - | - | - |
First published: August 26, 2011
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| 2019 | No control |
DE31 (2 weeks) DE |
AT39 (1 week) AT |
CH42 (2 weeks) CH |
- | - |
First published: March 29, 2019
|
gray hatching : no chart data available for this year
TV appearances
- 1977–79: Happy Days ("Happy Days Again") as Leather Tuscadero
- 1980: The Kenny Everett Video Show as Herself (episode 3.1)
- 1982: Minder . She plays "Nancy" (as Suzy Quatro) in episode 3.1 Dead Men Do Tell Tales .
- 1985: Dempsey & Makepeace . She plays "Catherine Warren" in episode 2.3 Love You to Death .
- 1994: Absolutely Fabulous . She plays a nurse in episode 2.1 Hospital .
- 1999: Never Mind the Buzzcocks as Herself (episode 6.6)
- 1999: This Is Your Life . As herself in the episode Suzi Quatro
- 2001: Heart-throbs of the 70s moderation
- 2007: Midsomer Murders: The Axeman Cometh ( Inspector Barnaby : Mord mit Groove), Episode 10.4 as Mimi Clifton
Awards
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Bravo Otto
- 1973: "Gold" in the "Singer" category
- 1974: "Gold" in the "Singer" category
- 1975: "Bronze" in the "Singer" category
- 1978: "Bronze" in the "Singer" category
- 1979: "Bronze" in the "Singer" category
- 1980: "Silver" in the "Singer" category
literature
- Irwin Stambler: The Encyclopedia Of Pop, Rock And Soul. 3rd revised edition. St. Martin's Press, New York City 1989, ISBN 0-312-02573-4 , pp. 546f.
Web links
- Suzi Quatro in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website (English)
- Fanpage with detailed discography (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Eternity in black leather. Interview with Michael Dwyer on theage.com of February 21, 2005, accessed April 22, 2014 (English)
- ↑ Constantin Aravanlis: Suzi Quatro - In The Spotlight. In: Weser Courier . August 19, 2011, accessed June 3, 2020 .
- ↑ cambridge-news.co.uk: Rock legends Wilko Johnson and Suzi Quatro receive honorary degrees in Cambridge
- ↑ Sabine Engel: Suzi Quatro: The Hamburg woman by choice at 90.3. In: Hamburg Journal . NDR , December 10, 2018, accessed December 12, 2018 .
- ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Quatro, Suzi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Quatrocchi, Susanna Kay |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American singer and glam rock champion from the 1970s to the early 1980s |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Detroit |