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Suzi Quatro
Susan Kay Quatro is an American singer, bass guitarist, songwriter, and actress. In the 1970s, she scored a string of singles that found success in Europe and Australia, with both "Can the Can" (1973) and "Devil Gate Drive" (1974) reaching number one in several countries.
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entertainment · American-British rock musician (born 1950) · guitarist · singer · singer-songwriter · actor · stage actor · television actor · radio personality · recording artist · musician · also Suzi Quatro, Quatro
Born 3 June 1950 · Q234750
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2026· 5 entries
“Because although he liked my music, he wasn”
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Public attention spiked: 6,253 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.6× the usual 1,754, with 0 article edits.
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Released album “Freedom”.
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2023· 2 entries
Released album “Face to Face”.
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And follows the 2021 collaboration The Devil in Me with her son Richard Tuckey, who had already taken part in No Control in 2019
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2022· 2 entries
Released ep “Uncovered”.
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Released album “The Rock Box 1973-1979”.
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2021· 1 entry
Released album “The Devil in Me”.
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2020· 3 entries
Released album “Suzi Quatro in Concert”.
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Released album “Stumblin’ In - Live”.
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Quatro was awarded the Icon Award by the Women's International Music Network
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2019· 3 entries
An Australian-made film on the life of Quatro premiered in Melbourne, Victoria
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Released album “No Control”.
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Released album “Trailblazer. Inspiration. Survivor”.
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2017· 2 entries
Released album “Legend: The Best of Suzi Quatro”.
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Quatro released her 16th studio album backed by Andy Scott from Sweet on guitar and Don Powell from Slade on drums
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2015· 2 entries
Released album “The Triple Album Collection”.
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Released album “The Wild One”.
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2014· 1 entry
Released album “The Girl From Detroit City”.
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2013· 1 entry
Quatro received the Woman of Valor Award from the organization Musicians for Equal Opportunities for Women (MEOW) for her role inspiring and influencing generations of female musicians
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2012· 3 entries
Quatro broke her right knee and left wrist while boarding an aircraft in Kyiv, Ukraine, where she had performed the night before
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Released album “All the Best”.
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In a 2012 interview, Quatro was asked what she thought she had achieved for female rockers in general.
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2011· 4 entries
A music video (by Tischler-Blue) for the track "Strict Machine" was released onto the Suzi Quatro Official YouTube channel
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Released album “In the Spotlight”.
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Quatro was inducted to the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame
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With the lead single, "Whatever Love Is"
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2010· 2 entries
Headlined the 'Girls Night Out' at the Isle of Wight Festival
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Was voted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends online Hall of Fame
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2008· 1 entry
Toward the end of 2008, Quatro's children had moved out of the house and she temporarily put it up for sale, stating that she had empty nest syndrome.
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2007· 1 entry
Released album “If You Knew Suzi... / Suzi... And Other Four Letter Words”.
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2006· 4 entries
Quatro performed the voice of Rio in the Bob the Builder film Built to Be Wild, and appeared in an episode of the second season of Rock School, in Lowestoft
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Released ep “Back to the Drive EPK”.
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Showed a return to Quatro's harder rock roots, rather than the smoother sounds of her previous albums
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Her daughter and grandchild moved back into the Essex manor house
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2005· 3 entries
Released album “Mixed”.
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Released album “Back to the Drive”.
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Released album “The UltraSelection”.
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2004· 2 entries
Released album “A’s, B’s & Rarities”.
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Released album “Leather Forever: The Wild One Live!”.
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2003· 1 entry
Released album “Media Markt präsentiert Suzi Quatro”.
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2002· 2 entries
Released album “Then and Now”.
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Released album “The Best of Suzi Quatro”.
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2001· 2 entries
Released album “Rough & Tough”.
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Released album “Quatro Collection”.
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2000· 5 entries
Released album “Suzi Quatro / Quatro”.
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Quatro saw herself as "kicking down the male door in rock and roll and proving that a female musician
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Released album “Star Collection”.
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Released album “Best of the 70's”.
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Released album “Your Mamma Won't Like Me / Aggro-Phobia”.
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1999· 5 entries
Released album “The Very Best Of”.
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Released album “The Best Of”.
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Released ep “Free the Butterfly”.
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Released album “Your Mamma Won't Like Me / Rock 'til Ya Drop”.
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Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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1998· 3 entries
Released album “Unreleased Emotion”.
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Released album “Daytona Demon”.
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Released album “The Essential Suzi Quatro”.
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1996· 5 entries
Released album “The Wild One: Classic Quatro”.
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Released album “The Gold Collection”.
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Released album “If You Can't Give Me Love”.
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Released album “Quatro / Aggro-Phobia”.
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Released album “20 Classic Tracks”.
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1995· 3 entries
Released album “Original Hits”.
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Released album “What Goes Around: Greatest & Latest”.
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And consisted of mainly older hits rerecorded; this proved a success in Denmark
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1994· 4 entries
Released album “Rock 'n' Rollin' Suzi”.
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Released ep “Christmas All Stars - Peace on Earth”.
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Made a cameo appearance as a nurse in the "Hospital" episode of the comedy Absolutely Fabulous
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Released ep “5 Goldies”.
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1993· 2 entries
Released album “Super Best”.
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Before 1993, Quatro lived with her two children in a manor house not far from Chelmsford, Essex, England, that she and Tuckey bought in 1980.
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1992· 2 entries
Released album “The Most of Suzi Quatro”.
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Released album “Twice as Much”.
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1991· 4 entries
Released album “In Japan 1975”.
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Released album “Oh, Suzi Q.”.
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Released album “Three Times a Lady - Ladies of Rock”.
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Released album “Rock Hard / Main Attraction”.
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1990· 3 entries
Released album “Live and Kickin'”.
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Released album “At Their Best”.
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Released album “The Wild One: The Greatest Hits”.
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1989· 3 entries
Released album “The Suzi Quatro Story: Golden 20 Hits”.
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Quatro released a prerecorded backing track single "Baby You're a Star", which was released in the UK, though it failed to chart
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Released album “Rock 'til Ya Drop”.
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1987· 1 entry
As a single and reached number 87 in the UK charts
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1986· 2 entries
Appeared as Annie Oakley in a London production of Annie Get Your Gun and in 1991, she performed the title role in a musical about the life of actress Tallulah Bankhead
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Released album “Annie Get Your Gun”.
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1985· 1 entry
Starred as a mentally disturbed ex-MI5 operative in Dempsey and Makepeace – "Love you to Death"
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1984· 3 entries
And in 1985 her "Tonight I Could Fall in Love"/"Good Girl (Looking for a Bad Time)" single reached number 140 in the UK charts
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Released album “The Best of… Suzi Quatro”.
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Released album “Best Now”.
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1983· 4 entries
Journalist Tom Hibbert wrote that Quatro may have overstated her role as a leading light among female rock musicians
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After playing a successful show at Reading Festival on August 27, that she did not care about being in the charts, but was more interested in releasing what she wanted to, commenting that she started in 1964, and did not
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Another single "Main Attraction" was released
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Released album “The History of Rock, Volume Twenty”.
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1982· 1 entry
Released album “Main Attraction”.
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1981· 1 entry
Quatro was left without a record label
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1980· 4 entries
After Quatro's contract with Mickie Most had expired, she signed with Chapman's Dreamland Records
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Released album “Rock Hard”.
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Released album “Wild Wild Suzi”.
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Peaked at number four in the UK chart, becoming her highest-charting album there
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1979· 2 entries
Released album “Suzi… and Other Four Letter Words”.
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Released ep “My Sharona”.
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1978· 1 entry
Released album “If You Knew Suzi…”.
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1977· 2 entries
Released album “Naked Under Leather”.
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Released ep “4 Sucessos”.
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1976· 4 entries
Released album “The Suzi Quatro”.
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And released a new single in 1977 called "Tear Me Apart", which reached the UK top 30, her first hit to have done so in three years
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Released album “Bravo präsentiert: Suzi Quatro”.
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Released album “Aggro-Phobia”.
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1975· 2 entries
Released album “The Suzi Quatro Story: 12 Golden Hits”.
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Released album “Your Mamma Won’t Like Me”.
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1974· 5 entries
Released album “Quatro”.
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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
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Released ep “Can the Can”.
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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 te
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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.
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1973· 6 entries
"no other prominent female musician worked in rock simultaneously as a singer, instrumentalist, songwriter, and bandleader"
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In a 1973 interview, Quatro sympathized with many of the opinions voiced by the women's liberation movement, while distancing herself from it because she considered that the participants were ... completely hypocritical.
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Released ep “Un uomo nella vita / Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) / Un’altra età / Can the Can”.
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Released album “Suzi Quatro”.
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Released ep “3 Cuts and a Hit”.
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Quatro played on the Cozy Powell hit "Dance With the Devil", a track written by Mickie Most while Cozy Powell was part of the Rak Records roster
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1972· 1 entry
Quatro embarked as a support act on a UK tour with Thin Lizzy and headliners Slade
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1964· 1 entry
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
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1950· 1 entry
Born 1950-06-03.
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