Suzi Quatro
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Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, May 1974
SUZI QUATRO is a real cutie, rootie tootie, not sweet hog honey like Linda Ronstadt but a tight roller derby queen with juice and enuf ...
Retrospective by Tom Hibbert, The History of Rock, 1983
How Quatrophenia conquered the UK "SUZI QUATRO MADE A WELCOME CHANGE from the wimpy, folksy girls who were rock’s only other female representatives at ...
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Suzi Quatro: Tipped For Success This Year
Report and Interview by uncredited writer, New Musical Express, 20 January 1973
[NOTE: This uncredited piece was included in a Radio Luxembourg promotional special inset entitled the 208 Times.] ...
Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman: The Dynamic Duo Of Plastic Pop
Interview by Jonh Ingham, New Musical Express, 2 June 1973
Nicky Chinn is an ex-public schoolboy, Mike Chapman a one-time waiter. Together they're... The Dynamic Duo Of Plastic Pop ...
This Is Suzi Quatro. She's Heavy
Interview by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 2 June 1973
ON THE HORIZON of Charles Street, London, or more precisely in the RAK Record Company offices, is a Star. Her name is Suzi Quatro. Five ...
Interview by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 23 June 1973
"KING EDWARDS are a really heavy smoke," the publicist is saying, "but Manikins and things like that are all right". The advice is aimed at ...
Suzi Quatro : You Don't Have To Be A Dyke…
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 6 October 1973
I FIRST ran into Suzi Quatro late last year. She was a nice, bouncy little American chick who played bass, wrote songs, was forming a ...
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 13 October 1973
"WE GOT a great new single comin' out," says Suzi Quatro from the depths of a rather predatory-looking brown armchair in Mickie Most's office at ...
Suzi Quatro: The Girl in the Gang
Report and Interview by Philip Norman, The Sunday Times, 1974
A SEPARATE dressing-room had been provided upstairs, but Suzi Quatro preferred to use the same one as her band. It was large, clean, grey and ...
Interview by Toby Mamis, Zoo World, 3 January 1974
N.Y. — "I DIDN'T want to play with girls anymore," she told me via transatlantic phone conversation, from her manager's office in London. ...
Suzi Quatro: A Rap In The Loo With Suzi Q.
Interview by Chrissie Hynde, New Musical Express, 23 February 1974
CHRISSIE HYND, who's got this thing about black leather, snuggles up to SUZI QUATRO for an intimate girl-to-girl tête-à-tête in the Ladies' toilet ...
Review by Alan Betrock, Phonograph Record, March 1974
IT'S HAPPENED BEFORE — little known American rockers going over to England to be "discovered", and returning to their homeland as superstars. The most obvious ...
Report and Interview by Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, 23 May 1974
Nouveau Rock Bops British Charts ...
Review by Greg Shaw, Rolling Stone, 6 June 1974
WHILE AMERICAN AUDIENCES continue to boogie as though it were still 1968, London has been overrun by pop maniacs, raising the ghost of Carnaby Street ...
Suzi Quatro & Olivia Newton-John: Dolly Mixture
Interview by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 20 July 1974
'What's ladylike?' asks Suzi Quatro. Olivia Newton-John should know – she was amazed in America when the audience ignored that she was wearing jeans on ...
Interview by Richard Cromelin, Phonograph Record, August 1974
SUZI QUATRO was thrown out of kindergarten, she never had a birthday party, and she used to steal money from a coin box in the ...
Profile by Simon Frith, Phonograph Record, August 1974
"Just ’cause I’ve got a couple of buns in front don’t mean I can’t play rock’n’roll." ...
Profile by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, August 1974
I was sitting in my den, as I often do, playing records and making notes for an article, when something clicked unexpectedly in my mind. ...
Suzi Quatro: The Teen Queen Of Europe Comes Home
Profile and Interview by Michael Gross, Circus, August 1974
IN 1971 SHE'D been nowhere – a local bandleader in Detroit who was more a spectacle than a musician. Then she left America. When Suzi ...
Review by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, September 1974
ALTHOUGH SUZI QUATRO exploded in Britain and to an extent in the States with all the sociomusical force of a full-fledged phenomenon, album No. 2 ...
Suzi Quatro: A Nice Pair — Pop's Top
Interview by Keith Altham, Music Scene, September 1974
Keith Altham asked Suzi Quatro, a ballsy woman with a bass guitar and Britain’s first lady of rock, a series of questions about her life ...
Suzi Quatro: Elvis as Virgin Queen
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, November 1974
"I STILL USE laundromats, and one day I was walking to one carrying a bag of laundry. I had a hat on and sunglasses because ...
Suzi Quatro: Poker Queen of Hearts
Interview by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 23 November 1974
Rosalind Russell busts in on Suzi Quatro and discovers the games she likes to play ...
Review by Richard Cromelin, Creem, December 1974
THERE JUST MIGHT be something to what a British popster said recently – that Suzi is third-priority on the Chinn-Chapman song-machine, so Sweet get the ...
Suzi Quatro: For Your Information, She Happens To Be A Lady
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 25 January 1975
"ALISTAIR...CAN YOU go through your solo again and count exactly how many bars you need for it?" ...
Suzi Quatro: Your Momma Won't Like It
Interview by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 25 January 1975
...but black leather isn't all there is to Suzi Quatro explains KARL DALLAS ...
Suzi Quatro: Rainbow Theatre, London; Labelle: Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London
Live Review by Philip Norman, The Times, 10 March 1975
LIFE HAS changed for Mickie Most since he appeared as one half of The Most Brothers, "England's answer to the Everly Brothers". Forsaking the duet ...
Suzi Quatro: Your Mama Won't Like Me
Review by John Mendelsohn, Phonograph Record, April 1975
THERE'S NOTHING like a new Suzi Quatro album to knock one's hormonal balance all out of whack. Were there but the most nebulous suggestion of ...
Suzi Quatro: Roxy, Los Angeles
Live Review by Steven Rosen, Sounds, 19 April 1975
A FRIEND was explaining to me the merits of Suzi Quatro's one-night Roxy performance. "Well," he said, trying hard to come up with something worthwhile, ...
Alice Cooper, Suzi Quatro: Madison Square Garden, New York NY
Live Review by Toby Goldstein, Billboard, 24 May 1975
WHEN ALICE Cooper's track record is summoned up, the one question that springs to mind is, what can he possibly do to surpass himself this ...
Nicky Chinn: From Riches to Riches
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Let It Rock, June 1975
LiR EXCLUSIVE: Journey to the centre of pop. Nicky Chinn interviewed ...
Suzi Quatro: Aggrophobia (RAK)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 15 January 1977
FOUR AND A HALF YEARS since Suzi Quatro scored jackpot and replay with 'Can The Can', and it's only now that she's made an album ...
The Glitter Era: Teenage Rampage
Overview by Ken Barnes, Bomp!, March 1978
JUST THREE YEARS gone and it already seems so quaint. The time was c. 1971-1974, the place England, the sound "glitter," or "Glitter Rock." ...
Interview by Harold Bronson, New York Rocker, September 1978
PRODUCER MIKE Chapman, once removed from his baronial digs in the hillier regions of Beverly Hills and ensconced in the recording studio, sheds his bemused ...
Chinn & Chapman: Ballroom Blitz & Hearts of Glass
Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, March 1979
Mike Chapman began with Mud and Sweet, disappeared when glitter-rock went cold, and came back to make the new wave palatable for America with the ...
Long Overdue Recognition For Producer Mike Chapman
Profile by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 August 1979
WITH HIS productions of the multi-platinum Blondie LP, Parallel Lines, and Get the Knack, which earned a gold album faster than any other debut album ...
Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn: Ballroom Blitz & Hearts of Glass
Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 29 December 1979
Mike Chapman began with Mud and Sweet, disappeared when glitter-rock went cold, and came back to make the new wave palatable for America with the ...
Book Excerpt by John Tobler, Stuart Grundy, 'The Record Producers', 1982
THE YEARS BETWEEN 1971 and 1975 were tucked between psychedelia on the one hand and punk rock on the other, and while they featured country ...
Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 4 April 1992
MAYBE IT'S for the best that Marc Bolan didn't take that bend as well as he'd have liked back in '77. Otherwise we might now ...
Interview by Jude Rogers, The Word, August 2011
Leather-clad pop cat, amateur Soviet historian and Tony Hancock aficionado. Do not disturb between 4 and 6pm. * ...
"We'll retire at 106. What else can we do?" The rockers who won't call it a day
Report and Interview by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 18 August 2015
From Suzi Quatro to Saxon's Biff Byford, rock's pioneers have been making music for more than 40 years. Here they talk about leather jumpsuits, performing ...
In the Hot Seat with Larry LeBlanc: Toby Mamis, manager, Alive Enterprises
Interview by Larry LeBlanc, Celebrity Access, 30 August 2018
YOU ARE GOING to have to wait for a film to make much sense of Toby Mamis' fabulously winding career. ...
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