Suzi Quatro top 5 albums
If Suzi Quatro hadn’t existed, we’d be inhabiting a very different musical landscape. Until the diminutive leather-clad Detroit fireball emerged out of the exclusively male preserve of the 1970s glam scene, the role of female rock and pop performers was limited largely to simpering subserviently in unattractive pinafore dresses. Suzi Quatro changed all that. With an undeniable charisma, a refusal to accept recognised boundaries and a positively feral approach to the delivery of visceral rock’n’roll, Suzi Q inspired (both directly and indirectly) generations of aspiring female artists.
She ascended rapidly to household-name status following her debut ‘Top Of The Pops’ performance with in the summer of ’73.
