Between 1973 and 1980, Suzi Quatro was awarded six Bravo Ottos.
54 Facts About Suzi Quatro
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Suzi Quatro is reported to have sold over 50 million records worldwide, and continues to perform live.
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Suzi Quatro was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, United States.
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Suzi Quatro's paternal grandfather was an Italian immigrant to the US Suzi Quatro's family name of "Quattrocchi" was shortened to Quatro.
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Suzi Quatro's family was living in Detroit when she was born.
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Suzi Quatro has three sisters, a brother, and one older half-sister.
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Suzi Quatro's parents fostered several other children while she was growing up.
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Suzi Quatro's father, Art, was a semi-professional musician and worked at General Motors.
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Suzi Quatro has a brother, Michael Suzi Quatro, who is a musician.
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Suzi Quatro was influenced at the age of six by seeing Elvis Presley perform on television.
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Suzi Quatro taught herself how to play the bass, after her sister asked her to learn it for her first band, the Pleasure Seekers.
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Suzi Quatro's father gave her a 1957 Fender Precision bass guitar in 1964, which she still uses in the studio.
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Suzi Quatro played drums or percussion from an early age as part of her father's jazz band, the Art Suzi Quatro Trio.
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Suzi 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.
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Suzi Quatro spent a year living in a hotel while being nurtured by Most, developing her skills and maturing.
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In 1972, Suzi Quatro embarked as a support act on a UK tour with Thin Lizzy and headliners Slade.
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In 1973, Suzi 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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Suzi Quatro recorded the album Aggro-Phobia in 1976 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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Suzi Quatro collaborated with Bronski Beat and members of the Kinks, Eddie and the Hot Rods and Dr Feelgood on the Mark Cunningham-produced cover version of David Bowie's "Heroes", released the following year as the 1986 BBC Children in Need single.
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Suzi Quatro released a cover version of "Wild Thing" in November 1986, as a duet with The Troggs singer Reg Presley.
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Suzi Quatro was part of the Ferry Aid charity single "Let It Be", which was a UK No 1,13 years and 26 days after Quatro's last UK No 1.
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In 1989, Suzi 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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Suzi Quatro released In the Spotlight in 2011 with the lead single, "Whatever Love Is".
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Suzi Quatro marked her 50th anniversary in the music industry with an anthology, Girl from Detroit, in 2014 with two new tracks.
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In February 2006, Suzi Quatro released Back to the Drive, produced by Sweet guitarist Andy Scott.
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In March 2007, Suzi Quatro released a cover version of the Eagles song "Desperado", followed by the publication of her autobiography, Unzipped.
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Suzi Quatro was inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends online Hall of Fame in 2010, following an on-line vote.
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The track is a cover of Goldfrapp's "Strict Machine", but Suzi Quatro's version contains two lines from "Can the Can", referencing the similarity of the tunes for the two songs.
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In 2017, Suzi Quatro released her sixteenth studio album backed by Andy Scott from Sweet on guitar and Don Powell from Slade on drums.
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Suzi Quatro is possibly best known in the United States for her role as the bass player Leather Tuscadero on the television show Happy Days.
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In February 2022 Suzi Quatro gave an exclusive interview to Paul Stenning regarding her appearance in both shows.
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Suzi Quatro was filmed in the 1990 Clive Barker horror film Nightbreed, but the studio cut out her character.
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In 2006, Suzi 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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Suzi Quatro has appeared in the episode "The Axeman Cometh" of Midsomer Murders in the role of Mimi Clifton.
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In more recent times, Suzi Quatro has hosted weekly rock and roll programs on BBC Radio 2.
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Suzi Quatro started writing songs alone, then collaborated with other songwriters, and now mainly writes songs alone .
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Suzi Quatro's early recorded songwriting was deliberately limited to album tracks and the B-sides of singles.
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Suzi Quatro married German concert promoter Rainer Haas in 1993.
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Toward the end of 2008, Suzi Quatro's children moved out of the house and she temporarily put it up for sale, stating that she had empty nest syndrome.
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Suzi Quatro continues to live in Essex and Hamburg, and sometimes in Detroit.
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On March 31,2012, Suzi 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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Suzi Quatro had to reschedule other concert dates, while some were canceled altogether.
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In 1974, Suzi 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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In 2020, Suzi Quatro was awarded the Icon Award by the Women's International Music Network.
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In 2011, Suzi Quatro was inducted to the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame.
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In October 2016, Suzi Quatro received an honorary doctorate in music from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK along with Dr Feelgood's Wilko Johnson.
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Suzi Quatro's facing a bit of a [commercial] crisis: Chinn and Chapman, having proved their point, are losing interest in her.
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None of her own musical talents has been needed and so they've been ignored and while Sweet and Mud have their histories and themselves to draw on for support, Suzi Quatro's present has nothing to do with her past and her group was formed only to play Chinnichap music.
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In 1983, journalist Tom Hibbert wrote that Suzi Quatro may have overstated her role as a leading light among female rock musicians.
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When Suzi Quatro emerged in 1973, "no other prominent female musician worked in rock simultaneously as a singer, instrumentalist, songwriter, and bandleader".
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Suzi Quatro had a direct influence on the Runaways and Joan Jett, as well as Girlschool and Chrissie Hynde.
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Mid-1990s American indie rock band Tuscadero was named after Suzi Quatro's Happy Days character Leather Tuscadero, and their song "Leather Idol", from their 1994 album The Pink Album, was an ode to both Suzi Quatro and her TV character.
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On October 24,2013, Suzi Quatro received the Woman of Valor Award from the organization Musicians for Equal Opportunities for Women for her role inspiring and influencing generations of female musicians.
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Suzi Quatro performed five songs with a local band that included her sister Patti and Tony Scalzo of the band Fastball on "Stumblin In".