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It frustrates me
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that women's rock bands are so bad.
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Some bands in the States try
to make real feminist rock.
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But that's nothing compared
to the creativity of men's bands.
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Somehow girls never touched a guitar.
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Most of the girls have given up.
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They were bored, or they needed time
for dates or other things.
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I sacrificed most of my youth for this.
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Few are ready.
Probably rightly, because few make it.
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"A rocker, a doubter, a loner,
a devil woman , a wild cat,
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a storm child who
fled frightened Detroit ... "
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SINCE 1973, SUZI QUATRO HAS SOLD MORE THAN
55 MILLION RECORDS WORLDWIDE.
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Do you want to rock out?
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SUZI WAS THE FIRST BASSIST
TO BECOME A REAL ROCK STAR.
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She went ahead
and opened the doors for us women.
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She was a real pioneer
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as a rock 'n' roller.
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When we started in 1964, 1965, 1966
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there were hardly any girl bands. Almost no.
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Sure, there were early pioneers
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who played in rock bands.
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Great musicians, but always in the background.
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Suzi was the one who made it
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to hit
the mainstream with a series of top ten hits worldwide .
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She was the first.
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Have you done something really new?
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Have you been successful with it?
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How long did your career last?
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Did it have substance?
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Have you been innovative
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Suzi was innovative, without question.
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It was just amazing.
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Shivers run through your body,
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you freak out and ask yourself:
Did I really just hear that?
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Suzi war glaubwürdig.
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A young woman with her guitar all in leather
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the audience goes crazy!
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Til today.
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Today's kids
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don’t know Suzi anymore
and that’s sad for the kids themselves.
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It's a shame because they should.
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Especially those who want to get into the music business
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should take a close look at Suzi Quatro.
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Most successful artists
only realize afterwards
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that one for success and fame
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always has to make big compromises.
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Huge.
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Huge!
- How do you cope with it
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that you have to pay a price that
the public cannot see?
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You have to
say goodbye to a comfortable, perfect life.
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I knew that when I was
with the band for the first time .
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W-J-B-K!
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This is what radio sounds like in Detroit!
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Hey Suzi Q what's up
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Frequency 1500.
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WJ Radio, Detroit.
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I was born Susan Kay Quatro.
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My parents were Arthur and Helen Quatro.
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My father didn't
want his four daughters to remain dependent.
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He raised us to be brave people.
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He loved my mother very much, for
more than 50 years.
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My mother was rather strict.
I was very close to her.
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She was probably the only one who really knew me.
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I couldn't fool her.
When I came home when I was 13 or 14 years old
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and drank or smoked a beer,
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she called from the other end of the house:
"Susan, come here!
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You smoked and drank. "
I couldn't lie.
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As for principles,
I come after my mother.
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She was Catholic and very strict.
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She put me on the track,
which I follow to this day.
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Besides that, there is the artistic in me,
I got that from my father.
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I love this song...
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..."Heart of my heart".
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It reminds me...
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... of childhood.
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We were five children
in a very musical family.
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My father played various instruments
in different bands.
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We had millions of hours of music.
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I learned to drum, piano ...
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We were very happy.
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{\ an1} SISTER
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We sang all the time.
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Mickey was confused as a child.
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He was seen on TV as a child prodigy.
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Suzi had the entertainer gene. She could
pull people under her spell, was funny and easy-going.
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Dad was thrilled
that we were all following in his footsteps.
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In January 1956, the whole family watched the
Ed Sullivan Show.
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Elvis appeared,
and when he did so ...
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There...
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At the age of five
and a half I knew at once :
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I will do that.
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Nobody said to her:
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"You can't do that, you're a girl."
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She wanted to be like Elvis.
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"That's cool, I'll do that."
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And that's exactly what makes rock 'n' roll.
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Right after the Beatles' appearance
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we girls talked on the phone about
how great they were.
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Patti suggested they start a girl band.
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And we all: "Yes!"
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The first band consisted of neighborhood children,
including two pairs of sisters.
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I still remember exactly, Nan said:
"I play the drums!"
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And Mary Lou: "I do the rhythm guitar!"
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Patti: "Me the lead guitar!" And I: "Hello?"
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She said, "You play bass."
So I asked my father for a bass.
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He gave me this
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I plugged it in and said: "Yes!"
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A crucial moment in my life
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to start with this band
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for the first time on stage
with the three songs we could.
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Three identical chords in three songs.
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And I stood up there with the bass
and thought
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"That's it. That's my thing.
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Forever. "
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The guitar always looked too big
because it was so small.
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Why didn't she want a smaller one?
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There is this little woman, she is really short
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and play that huge, heavy bass.
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And it looks like light as a feather.
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We got better and better,
put out a single.
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Suzi was 14, I was 16.
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The girl garage band sings "What a Way to Die".
That was punk before there was punk.
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Five Catholic girls are
doing a drinking and party song.
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It became very well known.
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We performed in a gym
with no stage.
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Someone said: "We don't see the singer, put
her on a table."
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So then I stood up there.
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I looked at the people and did:
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They winced.
I thought, "You guys like that."
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My father allowed me
to drop out of school and tour.
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Then I didn't have to go to school anymore,
spend the night with friends and so on ...
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I was on tour!
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Five gigs a night in clubs
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I shouldn't have been allowed in.
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And I still remember that I thought:
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"All of my friends are in school
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and I'm not one of them anymore? "
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So I
missed part of growing up.
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That probably explains that vulnerable part of me,
even if I'm a tough girl.
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That part never grew up.
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And I longed to
be with them again
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but I couldn't go back
because I had found my thing.
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"I'm Suitcase Lizzie from Detroit City,
try my wings.
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{\ an1} I'm Suitcase Lizzie
from Detroit City
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{\ an1} and I can do anything. "
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{\ an1} POEMS
AND MEMORIES
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Your advantage: you are not only good,
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they look good too:
The Pleasure Seekers!
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When my older sister's husband started managing
the band
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he said: "More headlights on Suzi,
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she is the front woman. "
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Somehow I always knew that
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and developed my craft
under this auspices.
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We got into the concert industry through my brother .
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{\ an1} He brought in Hendrix, the Rolling Stones,
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{\ an1} organized
festival gigs everywhere . He was THE promoter.
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When I had the agency it was so easy
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to promote the girls.
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From 1965 to 1970 I took her to all the shows
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helped them with the record deal,
did everything.
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When I got home for the first time
, I called my friends:
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"I'm back!" Nobody wanted to talk to me.
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You were jealous
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because I broke out.
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If you live in Detroit,
you always have to hit the gas. It's just like that.
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The kids didn't want to go to the car factories
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don't end up like their parents did.
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There's nothing else there. LA has the beach
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New York has everything.
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There's nothing in Detroit, you just want to get away.
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We were the first female band to play
hard rock.
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We didn't make girls grumble.
We came from Detroit, after all.
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Detroit was the capital of hard rock.
Detroit was unique.
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When we first saw the Pleasure Seekers,
so all in white, so ...
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We didn't know what they wanted.
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But they couldn't deny Detroit.
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They were hard rockers anyway.
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After the covers came their own songs.
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And then we went to New York
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and got
a contract with Mercury Records through the head of ABC management .
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I quickly
realized that there are a lot of big mouths in the rock business.
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There were many dangers lurking,
many agents and clubs were dodgy.
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I
figured it out quickly and got myself a big mouth
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that scared off the idiots.
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There was no success.
None of the singles became a hit.
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But we were known because we were
all a girl band and different.
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We were just out and
about, performed with everyone.
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When we got home everything was different.
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We were suddenly out of date.
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In 1969 we played at a festival.
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There were bands like MC 5,
Frijid Pink, Alice Cooper ...
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Very casual, barefoot and in jeans ...
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And we were a show band
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appeared in outfits. We were completely out.
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All of a sudden there was that hard Detroit rock sound.
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Arlene remarried
and wanted to take care of the children.
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Dafür kam Nancy.
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She could really crank it up.
What a voice!
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I told Suzi it was out of date
and we needed a new voice.
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Without renewal, they would not have survived.
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{\ an3} You would have
remained a show band.
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I never liked cradle.
That wasn't my band.
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I liked to stay in the second row, thinking to myself:
"First of all, be good."
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I became a good bassist, I could jam.
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She wasn't just in the second row.
She was both.
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But then we
just had to get a little tougher.
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Suzi was from Detroit, just like The Stooges.
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Detroit was very dark then and ...
- It still is.
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Detroit has its own heartbeat.
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And it has a lot to do with the auto industry.
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And with black and white and rich and poor.
That does something.
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You are in Eastown!
Welcome to the heart of Detroit.
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Warm applause for the band Cradle!
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The drummer said at the time that
we had to get more serious
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say something, write yourself, get
political ...
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Why?
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It robbed
me of the fun of the band, I didn't feel good like that.
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We wanted a record deal.
That was more than difficult back then.
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No matter how good we were, the tie
wouldn't sign us.
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We could get pregnant
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Or fall in love,
eventually take it too easy.
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It was so difficult, we were utterly unnerved.
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And Suzi got impatient.
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I've always just waited.
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Ever since Cradle started.
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Honestly, since I started when I was 14,
I've been waiting for my chance.
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Mickie Most came with Jeff Beck from London
for a Motown recording.
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MICKIE MOST PRODUCED HITS
FOR THE ANIMALS, HERMAN'S HERMITS ...
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My brother found out about this and asked him to
see the girls' tapes.
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My brother arranged that with Mickie Most.
He always wanted to help us.
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And we played.
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We have played,
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Nancy sang and then I came.
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Very cool.
"Now one of me:
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'Brain Confusion'."
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Just like that.
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When we were done, he pretended
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went to the back and said:
"Do you want to make an album?"
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And I said,
"Yes, I would have. What are you doing?"
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Völliger Blödsinn.
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He said, "I'm a producer."
- "Really?"
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I played stupid.
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He probably liked my way.
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He asked, "Would you like
to come to the Motown studio tonight?
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You alone? "
I said," Okay. "
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So I went there.
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This is the studio, Studio 8,
where all the hits were made.
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He put me in here
with Jeff Beck and Cozy Powell.
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We jammed here
and played the song "Cissy Strut".
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Mickie ordered my brother to New York.
253
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He made an offer.
I had to talk to the nurses about that.
254
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He made an offer to Suzi through my brother.
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And he ...
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only wanted her.
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Mickey told my father and Patti
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that Mickie Most only
wanted me and not the band.
259
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And they decided
not to tell me about it
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because they wanted him to take the whole band.
261
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That was really not very nice.
262
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Blocking someone's path
is never okay.
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Patti wanted it so badly.
So it got very emotional.
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My family was very loving.
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We were all very close,
our parents were great, it was an ideal world.
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Until I got older and just had to leave.
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{\ an3} You continued with Cradle for two more years.
Patti went to the band Fanny.
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Your assessment,
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how we felt about her departure,
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very different from
what I felt.
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They were devastated.
272
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And so do I, emotionally.
273
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It was really difficult for me,
but I left anyway.
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"Through the astral plane to the heavenly
gate, my spirit rises higher and higher.
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On angel wings to the light
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I leave everyone else behind. "
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I went to London
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with this bass that was heavier than me
and with a suitcase.
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I lived in a room as big as ...
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Very tiny.
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A tiny bed
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a sink, a broken mirror, no toilet,
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a coat hook. That's how I lived.
284
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From the beautiful house in Grosse Pointe
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with a Cadillac in the driveway and good food
286
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I came to a tiny room
with no money, no friends, no family.
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I didn't do anything,
didn't know anyone, didn't go out.
288
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That was probably the absolute low point
in my life.
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{\ an1} Mickie gave me a chance that
I wanted to use, that was clear.
290
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But I cried myself to sleep very often.
291
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Tumbled to the floor crying.
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Longing, crying.
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Longing, crying.
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But I never thought of
going back home.
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I don't know
if her parents called me or I called them.
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They were worried
because Suzi was going to London.
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And I said, "Don't worry,
I'll take care of you."
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From then on I felt responsible for her.
299
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Suzi called Mickie one night
and said she was not doing well.
300
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He jumped out of bed,
packed medicine and drove to her.
301
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He was a father figure.
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She had a great father,
she wasn't looking for a replacement
303
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but he took care of her in business.
304
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I'm alone in London, I miss my family,
but I want to make it.
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My dad asked if I don't want
to come for Thanksgiving
306
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But I hated flying
and said no
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And, most importantly,
I didn't want to come back without a hit.
308
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My father
recorded conversations with a tape recorder
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asked the others what to say.
And then he sent me the tape.
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I was really excited!
311
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Suzi plays bass well, but not that great.
312
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In other words,
she's not such a great bassist ...
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Suzi is sloppy! She is very sloppy ...
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She doesn't have good technique.
- She doesn't want to be sloppy.
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But it is. It's one of her mistakes,
and she would admit it.
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She's too fast.
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Lots of unsightly things. I asked myself:
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"Why are you saying all this,
and why are you sending this to me too?"
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Someone I
spoke to about it said:
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"Maybe he was just pissed off that
you left without the other girls."
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Somehow I could understand his demeanor.
He was a family man.
322
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"I love you children equally.
You are all talented and great." That's how he was.
323
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I guess I really pissed him off.
324
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Patti said:
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"Perhaps my soul was
darkened for some time when you left.
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I had to get rid of a lot. "
327
00:25:12,391 --> 00:25:18,173
Suzi always had the urge to become a rock star
. A successful musician.
328
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She was ready to do anything for that.
329
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It doesn't happen often.
Some just want to make music.
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She wanted to be successful, to be a star.
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To make it
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you have to be determined.
333
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You have to get everything out of the way.
334
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I really wanted to.
335
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When you are young, you live that determination.
336
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If you lack this urge, this ambition,
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you might be lucky,
but you never get to the top.
338
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This is not for the faint of heart.
339
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PRESS AGENT FOR THE BEATLES AND SUZI QUATRO
340
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Mickie called me:
341
00:26:04,434 --> 00:26:08,869
"I found a singer,
do you do the press work for her?"
342
00:26:09,260 --> 00:26:12,217
And she sat there in the middle of the room
343
00:26:12,739 --> 00:26:15,260
with her curly hair and such.
344
00:26:15,913 --> 00:26:18,478
You immediately felt a difference.
345
00:26:18,956 --> 00:26:22,304
She was different from the female singers
one knew.
346
00:26:22,652 --> 00:26:26,565
Somehow she was completely herself.
Some people are
347
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somehow special.
348
00:26:29,260 --> 00:26:33,391
The bridge must be
a complete contrast to the verse.
349
00:26:34,217 --> 00:26:38,739
We do it like this: Try the bass,
I want to hear it.
350
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If I know the bass line in the middle
351
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I know what to look for when arranging.
352
00:26:46,173 --> 00:26:49,086
He knew what I wasn't,
not what I was.
353
00:26:49,347 --> 00:26:51,565
We tried to find out.
354
00:26:51,826 --> 00:26:54,782
I was a rocker. It was clear to him
355
00:26:55,130 --> 00:26:58,173
but he could
n't quite put it on a record.
356
00:26:58,521 --> 00:27:01,173
We did a few pieces in the studio
357
00:27:01,434 --> 00:27:05,434
worked with different people,
but it didn't work.
358
00:27:05,869 --> 00:27:09,130
Call me as soon as you have an idea
359
00:27:09,695 --> 00:27:14,695
and play it for me.
And if there's something to it, you go on.
360
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,913
There's no point if you finish something
and then I don't like it.
361
00:27:19,130 --> 00:27:22,086
Line by line,
and if I like it, that's great.
362
00:27:22,347 --> 00:27:24,347
Good.
- See you tomorrow.
363
00:27:24,608 --> 00:27:26,608
Good.
- Don't let me down.
364
00:27:26,869 --> 00:27:28,521
Thank you. Bye.
- Bye.
365
00:27:28,913 --> 00:27:32,086
It was starting to annoy me that nothing was happening.
366
00:27:32,478 --> 00:27:34,782
He made a record with her
367
00:27:35,217 --> 00:27:37,826
which strangely came first in Portugal.
368
00:27:45,521 --> 00:27:47,086
That was really weird.
369
00:27:55,304 --> 00:27:58,695
I guess if you can for a year
370
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,739
in a poor furnished room
371
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:06,000
lived in London like all of us
372
00:28:06,304 --> 00:28:08,652
do you want something to change.
373
00:28:09,043 --> 00:28:14,434
I said to Mickie, "I need a band,
I have to perform. I'm unhappy!
374
00:28:14,869 --> 00:28:19,000
I can't just sit around in the room
and write songs and nothing happens. "
375
00:28:19,347 --> 00:28:23,217
Back then I was still playing with the Nashville Teens.
376
00:28:23,652 --> 00:28:29,391
I was just about to go
to sleep in my little furnished place in Notting Hill
377
00:28:29,913 --> 00:28:35,043
when I got a call on the payphone
that everyone in the house shared.
378
00:28:35,347 --> 00:28:39,739
"Hey, come over! Suzi needs a guitarist."
379
00:28:40,086 --> 00:28:43,173
And I asked: "Suzi? Which Suzi?"
380
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"Suzi Quatro!"
381
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:48,478
I went then and when I came in
382
00:28:49,434 --> 00:28:52,478
Suzi sat on the floor playing Scrabble.
383
00:28:53,130 --> 00:28:55,652
She looked up and did ...
384
00:28:56,956 --> 00:29:00,826
A small, somewhat unkempt lady from America.
Pretty.
385
00:29:01,565 --> 00:29:05,652
We fell in love.
He took care of me.
386
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:10,826
Mickie always said if I hadn't
fallen in love with my great guitarist
387
00:29:11,043 --> 00:29:15,260
if he'd got me a bodyguard.
But Lenny had his fists.
388
00:29:15,521 --> 00:29:18,521
The band developed their sound.
With my songs.
389
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:20,826
They all came from boogie rock.
390
00:29:21,130 --> 00:29:23,782
The quatro band worked immediately.
391
00:29:24,391 --> 00:29:27,434
The
right people just came together.
392
00:29:27,695 --> 00:29:31,608
We went on tour with Slade.
I was the opener. 20 minutes.
393
00:29:31,869 --> 00:29:33,391
All own songs.
394
00:29:33,652 --> 00:29:39,826
Back then, opening up Slade
meant getting thrown into the lions' den.
395
00:29:40,130 --> 00:29:42,695
She could hold her own.
396
00:29:42,956 --> 00:29:45,608
I thought: "The lady dares something."
397
00:29:45,869 --> 00:29:49,565
You
could tell it worked, she would do it.
398
00:29:56,217 --> 00:29:58,739
"While waiting for the storm
399
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,000
the work gets tough.
400
00:30:01,260 --> 00:30:03,347
I hope it's worth the wait. "
401
00:30:05,347 --> 00:30:09,304
One evening the phone rang at home.
402
00:30:09,695 --> 00:30:11,869
It was Nicky Chinn. He said to Mickie:
403
00:30:12,086 --> 00:30:15,913
"We're making hit
records and we'd love to meet you."
404
00:30:16,130 --> 00:30:17,782
Mickie liked the way
405
00:30:18,130 --> 00:30:23,695
that took courage. So Mickie said,
"Come to the office tomorrow at 11 o'clock."
406
00:30:24,130 --> 00:30:26,739
I knew
what records Nicky and Mike were doing
407
00:30:27,173 --> 00:30:32,391
and said to Mickie, "Chinn and Chapman
would be good producers for Suzi."
408
00:30:32,695 --> 00:30:34,173
He just said, "Oh."
409
00:30:34,434 --> 00:30:37,695
The next morning
I heard him organize this on the phone.
410
00:30:38,043 --> 00:30:42,173
He asked: "You know Suzi Quatro, don't you?"
411
00:30:42,434 --> 00:30:46,217
I said, "Yeah, I've seen her in the office
a few times."
412
00:30:46,652 --> 00:30:50,043
He said,
"I've been recording with her for months.
413
00:30:50,521 --> 00:30:54,043
But I'm not getting it right
414
00:30:54,652 --> 00:30:57,608
I'm not getting any further with her.
415
00:30:58,739 --> 00:31:03,086
Would you like to write
and produce a song for her ? "
416
00:31:03,347 --> 00:31:05,956
Mike Chapman appeared on RAK Records.
417
00:31:06,260 --> 00:31:08,608
He said, "Play your set."
418
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:13,652
So we played our live set,
boogie stuff, a bit of rock 'n' roll.
419
00:31:14,043 --> 00:31:19,304
He said: "Okay, I have a few ideas.
I'll call you tomorrow."
420
00:31:19,565 --> 00:31:24,739
But he called in the evening:
"Come tomorrow, I think I've got it."
421
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:26,608
They wrote "Can the Can".
422
00:31:27,347 --> 00:31:29,000
Mickie listened to it.
423
00:31:29,304 --> 00:31:31,434
He just said: "Yes!"
424
00:31:31,869 --> 00:31:35,086
I listen to one to two hundred songs a day.
425
00:31:35,608 --> 00:31:36,913
And with one
426
00:31:37,130 --> 00:31:41,391
As a demo tape or played on the piano,
something happens.
427
00:31:41,652 --> 00:31:43,391
You get goose bumps.
428
00:31:43,782 --> 00:31:46,260
You just know: it is!
429
00:31:46,565 --> 00:31:49,652
I knew she was a bass player and also
430
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:55,826
that Mickie didn't do much with the bass
on their records.
431
00:31:56,043 --> 00:31:59,869
It was more about her face and her voice,
432
00:32:00,478 --> 00:32:03,043
the appearance of a 19-year-old.
433
00:32:03,478 --> 00:32:07,130
In "Can the Can"
the bass played a central role.
434
00:32:07,391 --> 00:32:08,478
By the:
435
00:32:12,782 --> 00:32:15,130
Very hard and driving.
436
00:32:15,565 --> 00:32:17,130
And just cool.
437
00:32:17,869 --> 00:32:20,869
He said, "Sing higher." I did.
438
00:32:21,086 --> 00:32:24,130
"So high now." I did.
"So high now."
439
00:32:24,391 --> 00:32:28,739
"I am at the limit with my chest voice."
And Mike: "That's what it's about."
440
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:30,695
Ich: "Was?"
Er: "Ja."
441
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:32,217
I why?"
442
00:32:32,478 --> 00:32:37,173
"In this position your voice has
a very special quality."
443
00:32:37,608 --> 00:32:42,347
Mickie Most thought it was a little too slow.
So they made it faster.
444
00:32:42,739 --> 00:32:47,739
That's why Suzi's voice sounds a
bit shrill on the upper notes.
445
00:32:48,217 --> 00:32:53,434
Mickie wanted to talk about my outfit
because it was going to be a number one hit.
446
00:32:53,695 --> 00:32:56,565
I wanted leather, he was against it.
447
00:32:57,086 --> 00:33:00,260
But I really wanted to
because I was such an Elvis fan.
448
00:33:00,521 --> 00:33:03,000
Then he said: "Good. A jumpsuit."
449
00:33:03,391 --> 00:33:07,434
I'll never forget
like Mickie at our dining table
450
00:33:07,869 --> 00:33:09,869
{\ an1}
drew a leather catsuit .
451
00:33:10,304 --> 00:33:12,956
{\ an1} That's how he wanted to
see Suzi on stage,
452
00:33:13,173 --> 00:33:14,304
{\ an1} entirely in leather.
453
00:33:14,695 --> 00:33:18,913
Like Jane Fonda in "Barbarella",
that was his inspiration.
454
00:33:19,304 --> 00:33:21,391
"That's what we're working with," he said.
455
00:33:21,826 --> 00:33:25,869
The record was on on my first photo shoot.
456
00:33:26,608 --> 00:33:31,000
Gered Mankowitz took photos, the song was playing
and I was wearing my first leather suit.
457
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,478
It was an important moment
because he said:
458
00:33:35,043 --> 00:33:37,521
"Show me the Suzi Quatro look!"
459
00:33:37,782 --> 00:33:40,695
And everything just came ...
460
00:33:41,347 --> 00:33:43,086
And I did ...
461
00:33:43,782 --> 00:33:45,391
{\ an1} Whack!
An important moment.
462
00:33:45,652 --> 00:33:47,478
{\ an1} The plate
matches the look.
463
00:33:47,739 --> 00:33:50,608
{\ an1} The picture
always reminds me of that moment.
464
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:54,217
"You want a Suzi Quatro look?"
And already I had it.
465
00:33:56,434 --> 00:33:59,217
{\ an1} That was when
I became Suzi Quatro.
466
00:33:59,956 --> 00:34:03,347
We were at "Top of the Pops" on Tuesday,
467
00:34:03,739 --> 00:34:06,347
it was broadcast on Thursday.
468
00:34:06,826 --> 00:34:10,391
Back then everyone was watching "Top of the Pops".
It was so to speak
469
00:34:10,695 --> 00:34:12,043
the Holy Grail.
470
00:34:12,478 --> 00:34:14,695
Everyone wanted to appear there.
471
00:34:15,956 --> 00:34:19,739
If that worked, you knew:
the foot is in the door!
472
00:34:48,782 --> 00:34:51,739
I only have this "Can the Can!" heard.
473
00:34:52,043 --> 00:34:57,347
Just neurons and synapses that
exploded in my brain.
474
00:34:57,739 --> 00:35:00,608
My brain literally exploded.
475
00:35:11,217 --> 00:35:13,869
Everyone said they were shocked.
476
00:35:14,086 --> 00:35:17,826
First reaction:
what the hell is that?
477
00:35:34,043 --> 00:35:38,434
We were totally unknown on Wednesday.
478
00:35:39,043 --> 00:35:45,391
Suzi and I were watching Top of the Pops
on our little black and white TV.
479
00:35:45,869 --> 00:35:48,782
Then it came and everyone freaked out.
480
00:35:50,304 --> 00:35:53,347
Just because.
"Damn it, let's go have a beer!"
481
00:35:53,652 --> 00:35:59,130
Oh yeah, I remember when we went to the pub to have
the Top of the Pops gig.
482
00:35:59,434 --> 00:36:02,260
I had no idea what to expect.
483
00:36:02,565 --> 00:36:05,478
We came in and everyone started screaming:
484
00:36:05,739 --> 00:36:08,565
"That is her!" Total chaos.
485
00:36:09,130 --> 00:36:11,869
I just thought, "Oh shit."
It was scary.
486
00:36:12,130 --> 00:36:17,695
I ran out and knew
this was the end of my life so far.
487
00:36:44,260 --> 00:36:48,217
She's really wild and just herself.
488
00:36:48,478 --> 00:36:51,565
She doesn't really look threatening
489
00:36:52,260 --> 00:36:55,086
she stands there with her boys
490
00:36:55,652 --> 00:37:00,869
and she is the leader.
And it literally explodes
491
00:37:01,347 --> 00:37:04,086
for sheer talent
492
00:37:05,347 --> 00:37:07,695
Energy and youth and ...
493
00:37:09,869 --> 00:37:13,608
that makes them seem independent.
494
00:37:14,130 --> 00:37:16,086
And Suzi is tiny!
495
00:37:16,695 --> 00:37:19,304
A tiny person.
496
00:37:19,782 --> 00:37:24,521
Wow!
A little girl like that makes so much noise!
497
00:37:24,869 --> 00:37:30,739
I had never seen a woman play
an instrument in a band.
498
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:36,478
It never occurred
to me that there could be.
499
00:37:37,217 --> 00:37:38,782
You can see,
500
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:43,521
what influence she had
501
00:37:44,521 --> 00:37:48,695
what symbolic power it had for
so many musicians.
502
00:37:50,826 --> 00:37:55,043
Many musicians
have taken Suzi Quatro as a role model.
503
00:37:55,347 --> 00:37:59,217
She was
pretty much the only front woman in a band back then
504
00:37:59,478 --> 00:38:02,521
who sang and played an instrument.
505
00:38:02,782 --> 00:38:07,565
There weren't many.
Were there any at all back then?
506
00:38:08,043 --> 00:38:12,043
That kind of elemental rock 'n' roll, roots rock,
507
00:38:12,304 --> 00:38:14,000
that she made
508
00:38:14,304 --> 00:38:19,217
had a big influence on
what came next , punk rock.
509
00:38:19,695 --> 00:38:22,086
She wore a jumpsuit, she wore leather
510
00:38:22,434 --> 00:38:25,043
had a simple hairstyle.
511
00:38:25,391 --> 00:38:28,521
She was a natural beauty
without much makeup.
512
00:38:28,913 --> 00:38:33,347
When attractive people don't
act sexy, they look even more attractive.
513
00:38:33,652 --> 00:38:39,043
She had that perfect pouting,
innocent face. Simply adorable.
514
00:38:39,565 --> 00:38:43,173
Maybe girls were taught
515
00:38:43,434 --> 00:38:46,391
not to strive for these things,
516
00:38:46,869 --> 00:38:49,304
to say, "I can't."
517
00:38:49,565 --> 00:38:53,695
And it took a Suzi Quatro first,
who said: "Yes, it works."
518
00:38:54,043 --> 00:38:58,304
At the time I wanted to persuade Tina to
join our band,
519
00:38:58,565 --> 00:39:00,304
even in college.
520
00:39:00,739 --> 00:39:02,739
I was ready to help him
521
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:08,521
in his career, in his pastime,
in everything he wanted to do.
522
00:39:09,173 --> 00:39:14,782
But I couldn't imagine it for me.
I played folk guitar.
523
00:39:15,478 --> 00:39:16,913
And flute.
524
00:39:17,130 --> 00:39:19,478
And handbells.
525
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:21,956
Tina said very wisely:
526
00:39:22,173 --> 00:39:27,000
"I don't know,
rock 'n' roll is for young men.
527
00:39:27,347 --> 00:39:29,695
Not for nice girls. "
528
00:39:30,086 --> 00:39:32,652
I said, "That's not true. Look!
529
00:39:33,782 --> 00:39:37,391
Suzi Quatro. And she plays the bass
530
00:39:37,956 --> 00:39:42,304
and sings. And check out her cool outfit.
531
00:39:42,739 --> 00:39:46,000
{\ an1} Listen to it. She really rocks.
She really can.
532
00:39:46,869 --> 00:39:50,000
Like a guy, maybe even better. "
533
00:39:51,391 --> 00:39:54,000
{\ an3} YOUR FIRST ALBUM
"SUZI QUATRO" WAS:
534
00:39:54,652 --> 00:39:57,391
{\ an3} PLACE 2 IN AUSTRALIA,
32 IN GREAT BRITAIN,
535
00:39:57,652 --> 00:39:59,739
{\ an3} 5 IN AUSTRIA,
4 IN GERMANY,
536
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,260
{\ an3} 72 IN ITALY
142 IN THE USA.
537
00:40:03,826 --> 00:40:05,173
Suzi was real.
538
00:40:05,478 --> 00:40:10,478
It came so much from inside her
539
00:40:11,347 --> 00:40:13,434
so unmistakable
540
00:40:13,782 --> 00:40:18,521
it was much more than just showing
that women can make music.
541
00:40:19,130 --> 00:40:23,130
She showed us that we could be ourselves
542
00:40:23,608 --> 00:40:28,608
if we believed in ourselves enough.
Because Suzi never questioned that.
543
00:40:28,956 --> 00:40:32,347
As a young teen I went to the teen club
544
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:36,391
dropped a coin and heard "48 Crash".
545
00:41:59,217 --> 00:42:03,565
For me, "48 Crash" is their trademark.
546
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:09,347
More than "Can the Can" and "Devil Gate Drive".
One of their best songs.
547
00:42:09,782 --> 00:42:11,347
I sing along everywhere.
548
00:42:11,608 --> 00:42:16,608
Me, Suzi and Lenny
sang the background for all of them.
549
00:42:17,434 --> 00:42:19,695
That was a lot of fun.
550
00:42:21,391 --> 00:42:24,304
There was a lot of rejection because Suzi was a woman.
551
00:42:24,565 --> 00:42:26,043
YOUR MOM WILL NOT LIKE YOU!
552
00:42:26,391 --> 00:42:28,652
She wasn't a Cilla Black or Lulu
553
00:42:28,913 --> 00:42:31,217
not a "normal" singer.
554
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:36,434
She dared to play bass
and damn well at that too.
555
00:42:36,695 --> 00:42:40,782
She dared to sing rock 'n' roll
and she did it very well.
556
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:45,391
{\ an3} And she dared to wear leather
and really turn it up.
557
00:42:56,739 --> 00:42:59,782
She moved and played bass
558
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:03,347
like a real bass player. And without a pick.
559
00:43:03,782 --> 00:43:09,217
She grabbed the strings and pounded on them
like there was no tomorrow.
560
00:43:09,478 --> 00:43:12,478
And at the same time she sang
561
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:14,826
which is really difficult.
562
00:43:15,565 --> 00:43:18,826
"DAYTON DEMON" DOES IT:
563
00:43:33,347 --> 00:43:37,086
The British press loved outsiders.
564
00:43:37,478 --> 00:43:43,521
But if you came out big, it would tear you apart.
That happened with Suzi's performances and records.
565
00:43:43,782 --> 00:43:45,956
SEXIST TOOL OF CHAUVINISM
566
00:43:46,391 --> 00:43:50,391
Many of the New Musical Express writers
were very political.
567
00:43:50,782 --> 00:43:53,565
Obviously all left students.
568
00:43:53,869 --> 00:43:58,043
"... UNDER THE FUTURE OF
YOUR CHAUVINIST PRODUCERS."
569
00:43:58,304 --> 00:44:04,434
Many did not understand that a woman could be
as successful as a man.
570
00:44:04,826 --> 00:44:06,260
Men yes, women no.
571
00:44:06,652 --> 00:44:08,565
I've sold a million records.
572
00:44:08,826 --> 00:44:14,260
That attracts the skeptics
who want to pigeonhole you.
573
00:44:14,739 --> 00:44:19,347
Many
thought my work was great, others said: "Commercial product."
574
00:44:19,608 --> 00:44:24,565
If there's one thing I'm not, it's a commercial product.
575
00:44:43,043 --> 00:44:46,826
That she made her way
576
00:44:47,173 --> 00:44:49,869
proves how much courage she has.
577
00:44:50,260 --> 00:44:55,043
Because rock music was a
male-dominated business back then.
578
00:44:58,217 --> 00:45:01,434
Let's take a look at the butt of the year.
579
00:45:01,695 --> 00:45:03,000
Oh well
580
00:45:04,086 --> 00:45:07,652
What must Suzi Quatro have been through?
581
00:45:08,478 --> 00:45:12,478
in the beleaguered 70s.
582
00:45:12,956 --> 00:45:15,652
What we are experiencing today
583
00:45:16,217 --> 00:45:20,869
are just a holdover from
when it was normal.
584
00:45:21,217 --> 00:45:23,347
A woman was not allowed to say anything.
585
00:45:23,782 --> 00:45:28,043
I never saw myself then or now
as a woman
586
00:45:28,521 --> 00:45:32,130
who makes music.
Gender is not important to me.
587
00:45:32,478 --> 00:45:37,043
I wasn't
an emancier : "Look here, a girl can do that too."
588
00:45:37,304 --> 00:45:41,086
I wasn't like that. I just said,
"Here I am."
589
00:45:42,695 --> 00:45:46,304
She has crossed the sex line.
590
00:45:46,695 --> 00:45:51,956
Today she is considered an icon.
At least for most of the people I know.
591
00:45:52,739 --> 00:45:57,695
When we, L7, are interviewed today,
gender issues rarely play a role.
592
00:45:57,956 --> 00:46:00,043
It used to be that way all the time.
593
00:46:00,304 --> 00:46:04,565
I guess
the subject must have annoyed Suzi Quatro,
594
00:46:04,826 --> 00:46:07,695
since she probably didn't give a shit.
595
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:10,304
We wanted to be like them.
596
00:46:10,652 --> 00:46:14,826
We wanted to have this strength,
this belief in ourselves
597
00:46:15,043 --> 00:46:18,826
how she broadcast it.
598
00:46:19,217 --> 00:46:24,391
And as a young girl, you want that too.
599
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:44,347
She could be perfectly pegged
into this scene, this glam rock thing.
600
00:46:44,608 --> 00:46:48,434
She wasn't a glam rocker,
but she was part of that development.
601
00:46:48,913 --> 00:46:51,695
We weren't a glam rock band.
602
00:46:52,173 --> 00:46:55,086
I never used lipstick.
603
00:46:55,565 --> 00:46:59,956
Only Suzi used to put on makeup for television
or for taking photos.
604
00:47:00,260 --> 00:47:03,826
She made Marc Bolan, Slade,
605
00:47:04,608 --> 00:47:07,913
David Bowie, Sweet contesting first place.
606
00:47:08,695 --> 00:47:12,391
Yes, she was part of the glam rock scene.
607
00:47:12,739 --> 00:47:14,347
Mike kept coming up with new ideas.
608
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:16,956
{\ an3} He thought everything through carefully
609
00:47:17,173 --> 00:47:21,826
{\ an3} and his sound engineer
Pete Coleman knew what Mike wanted.
610
00:47:22,304 --> 00:47:26,956
I wanted
Mike Chapman to produce Blondie
611
00:47:27,304 --> 00:47:32,130
because he wrote songs like "Ballroom Blitz", "Can the Can"
or "48 Crash".
612
00:47:32,565 --> 00:47:36,869
{\ an1} He was a disciplinarian,
he always came in riding breeches,
613
00:47:37,086 --> 00:47:41,739
{\ an1} with a steel helmet like
MacArthur and a riding crop.
614
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:47,608
"So we should do that again."
615
00:47:49,130 --> 00:47:51,043
Nobody is fooling him.
616
00:47:51,304 --> 00:47:56,347
He swings the whip until he
gets exactly what he imagined.
617
00:47:56,826 --> 00:47:58,913
How are Suzi Quatro's songs created?
618
00:47:59,304 --> 00:48:03,652
We
dealt very intensively with Suzi's character.
619
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:08,347
She needs something wild
because there is something untamed about her.
620
00:48:08,608 --> 00:48:11,173
She is very calm in private.
621
00:48:11,434 --> 00:48:15,695
But on a stage she becomes Mr. Hyde.
622
00:48:16,043 --> 00:48:19,217
I was totally inspired: "Let me go."
623
00:48:19,913 --> 00:48:22,000
I knocked out one by one.
624
00:48:22,347 --> 00:48:26,521
"Devil Gate Drive" was next.
That was, in a way, the biggest hit.
625
00:48:32,652 --> 00:48:34,347
{\an1}"KÖNIG DES SUNSET STRIP"
626
00:48:34,608 --> 00:48:37,304
"Devil Gate Drive" ran a lot in my club
627
00:48:37,565 --> 00:48:40,695
because of the first line: Welcome to the crash!
628
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:46,608
NOT IN THE CHARTS IN THE USA.
629
00:49:50,130 --> 00:49:51,782
1ST TOUR OF AUSTRALIA, 1974
630
00:49:52,043 --> 00:49:56,608
Mickie Most said: "The flight takes a long time.
Wear what you want,
631
00:49:57,173 --> 00:50:01,652
but when you get out you have to be in leather
because you are a legend. "-" Good. "
632
00:50:01,913 --> 00:50:06,304
That was the first time that
there were noisy cameras. I loved it.
633
00:50:06,782 --> 00:50:11,043
An English band with an American lady.
How long have you been together?
634
00:50:11,304 --> 00:50:14,608
I've always been together.
- I wanted to hear that!
635
00:50:15,260 --> 00:50:18,913
How much longer will you be able to go on like this?
636
00:50:19,130 --> 00:50:21,043
Until nobody wants to see me anymore.
637
00:50:21,304 --> 00:50:25,000
When will that be? - I don't know.
Maybe when I'm old and wrinkled.
638
00:50:25,260 --> 00:50:28,130
How do you see your image?
- You're welcome?
639
00:50:28,391 --> 00:50:32,086
How was the reception here for you?
- It was very beautiful.
640
00:50:32,608 --> 00:50:37,217
Where were you? We waited two hours.
- Our luggage didn't come.
641
00:50:37,478 --> 00:50:39,695
We have an escort for you.
- As?
642
00:50:39,956 --> 00:50:41,826
A motorcycle escort.
- Yes?
643
00:50:42,043 --> 00:50:43,782
Did you know that?
- no
644
00:50:44,217 --> 00:50:45,391
"ROCK-QUEEN"
MOVED
645
00:50:45,652 --> 00:50:49,869
{\ an1} There were all these Hell's Angels
at the airport.
646
00:50:50,260 --> 00:50:54,695
And in Australia they are not
mothers-sons like they are here.
647
00:50:54,956 --> 00:50:56,739
They were to be taken seriously.
648
00:50:57,000 --> 00:51:00,000
There were many,
and they were really scary.
649
00:51:01,478 --> 00:51:05,869
The single "Can the Can"
hit # 1 in England in just three weeks.
650
00:51:06,086 --> 00:51:09,391
So far 200,000 pieces have been sold in Australia ,
651
00:51:09,652 --> 00:51:11,652
more than any Beatles single.
652
00:51:12,043 --> 00:51:14,608
It's not that big in the US
653
00:51:14,913 --> 00:51:18,043
but in Europe she is the first lady of rock.
654
00:51:20,521 --> 00:51:25,217
I had never heard screeching like the one in Melbourne .
655
00:51:25,478 --> 00:51:27,565
2. AUSTRALIAN-TOUR, NOV. / DEZ. 1974
656
00:51:28,304 --> 00:51:30,956
We had huge amplifiers
657
00:51:31,565 --> 00:51:35,000
but they didn't
win against the screaming audience.
658
00:51:36,391 --> 00:51:37,739
Hallo Melbourne!
659
00:51:43,304 --> 00:51:45,130
{\ an3} All my fans in Australia
660
00:51:45,391 --> 00:51:47,869
{\ an3} Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year!
661
00:51:48,086 --> 00:51:51,173
{\ an3} Buy my records so I
can buy cars and houses.
662
00:51:51,782 --> 00:51:53,739
AUSTRALIA, PRESS CONFERENCE
663
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:56,217
Do you have most of the fans here?
664
00:51:56,478 --> 00:51:57,739
Yes, in Australia.
665
00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:02,130
We are also in Germany a lot,
we are everywhere.
666
00:52:02,956 --> 00:52:07,695
You shouldn't
have made it in America yet . What do you think?
667
00:52:08,130 --> 00:52:10,608
I almost cursed, I'd rather not.
668
00:52:11,043 --> 00:52:16,434
In 1974 I came home for my
first American tour.
669
00:52:16,869 --> 00:52:20,130
I had hits
, so I came back successfully, which is what I wanted.
670
00:52:20,391 --> 00:52:21,826
SUZI COMES BACK AS A STAR
671
00:52:22,130 --> 00:52:25,956
First time since 1971, so
I was very upset.
672
00:52:26,173 --> 00:52:29,434
Coming home to the family, oh my god!
673
00:52:29,869 --> 00:52:31,217
I had palpitations.
674
00:52:31,695 --> 00:52:36,217
{\ an1} I had left her
and didn't know what it would be like.
675
00:52:36,608 --> 00:52:41,086
I went
to my old room in the basement with Lenny .
676
00:52:41,434 --> 00:52:42,869
My clothes were gone.
677
00:52:43,565 --> 00:52:48,043
All the pictures were gone,
the whole room was as if naked.
678
00:52:48,913 --> 00:52:51,347
"Where are my clothes?"
I asked my mother.
679
00:52:51,608 --> 00:52:55,434
"Patti cut it up
and made something out of it."
680
00:52:55,869 --> 00:52:59,652
I was erased from her life,
as if I were no longer there.
681
00:52:59,913 --> 00:53:02,478
That was a real shock. It was very tough.
682
00:53:03,434 --> 00:53:05,913
{\ an1} I always felt sorry for Patti.
683
00:53:06,130 --> 00:53:09,434
She must have thought
I had taken something from her.
684
00:53:09,695 --> 00:53:11,130
But I don't have that.
685
00:53:11,391 --> 00:53:15,782
You must feel guilty about
leaving the family
686
00:53:16,086 --> 00:53:18,043
and project your crap on us.
687
00:53:18,304 --> 00:53:21,173
{\ an3} I BREAKED OFF MY SISTER
'S FINGERS.
688
00:53:21,434 --> 00:53:24,956
They were proud of me,
but they also resented me
689
00:53:25,173 --> 00:53:28,217
and thought I had a carefree life.
690
00:53:28,739 --> 00:53:32,217
You're looking forward to "Hello!"
But everyone is closing . That is hard.
691
00:53:32,695 --> 00:53:36,086
It would change
if she did.
692
00:53:36,608 --> 00:53:41,043
But I don't notice anything.
Something would also change
693
00:53:41,304 --> 00:53:45,521
if I gave it my
all to have a famous sister.
694
00:53:45,782 --> 00:53:46,869
I don’t.
695
00:53:47,347 --> 00:53:51,173
Suzi is Suzi. She won't be pinned down.
She protects herself.
696
00:53:51,739 --> 00:53:53,130
{\ an1} That's how it is.
697
00:53:56,782 --> 00:53:59,304
"Love is enough to share the burden
698
00:54:00,086 --> 00:54:02,347
or to heal the inner child?
699
00:54:02,608 --> 00:54:07,043
Or did
something die on this endless road ? "
700
00:54:08,347 --> 00:54:12,956
{\ an3} Big applause for honest 5-finger rock:
701
00:54:33,391 --> 00:54:36,521
With the first album
she made a club tour in 74.
702
00:54:36,956 --> 00:54:41,913
In late 74 she toured as the opening act for Uriah Heep.
703
00:54:42,260 --> 00:54:46,086
Und 75 bei Alice Coopers
"Welcome to My Nightmare"-Tour.
704
00:54:47,043 --> 00:54:48,173
A great tour.
705
00:54:48,434 --> 00:54:53,826
We figured out
who to take on the tour and she had time.
706
00:54:54,086 --> 00:54:58,217
We knew Suzi was great, she
wouldn't disappoint the audience.
707
00:54:58,652 --> 00:55:04,000
I saw it as Alice Cooper's opener.
And I was full of admiration.
708
00:55:04,347 --> 00:55:07,391
This little powerhouse
709
00:55:07,782 --> 00:55:09,869
the bass very deep,
710
00:55:10,173 --> 00:55:15,173
did a Chuck Berry thing
on the giant stage of the Forum.
711
00:55:15,869 --> 00:55:18,000
We had a really good time.
712
00:55:18,478 --> 00:55:22,260
Six appearances in a row, then a day off
713
00:55:22,869 --> 00:55:25,130
then again six appearances and so on.
714
00:55:25,826 --> 00:55:28,739
We toured the UK, America
715
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:32,782
Italy, Scandinavia and Japan.
716
00:55:33,173 --> 00:55:36,043
And now Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia.
717
00:55:36,565 --> 00:55:39,130
Are there any breaks?
718
00:55:39,913 --> 00:55:42,043
A couple of hours here and there.
719
00:55:42,608 --> 00:55:47,347
You were always on tour.
And the more successful you were, the more.
720
00:55:47,608 --> 00:55:52,000
65 cities in 72 days.
At that age you are indestructible.
721
00:55:53,043 --> 00:55:57,000
You're 20, 21, 22, always on the go.
722
00:55:57,260 --> 00:55:59,826
And full halls every evening.
723
00:56:00,304 --> 00:56:04,434
After the performance we sat somewhere
724
00:56:04,782 --> 00:56:08,608
a bottle of scotch showed up
and we stayed up forever.
725
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:13,826
Then back on the bus or the plane
and do it all over again.
726
00:56:14,130 --> 00:56:15,913
Suzi Quatro drank beer,
727
00:56:17,043 --> 00:56:18,565
smoked cigarettes.
728
00:56:19,304 --> 00:56:22,000
I've never seen her use harder drugs.
729
00:56:22,434 --> 00:56:27,826
I wasn't a sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll girl.
I didn't do any of that.
730
00:56:28,043 --> 00:56:31,652
I was the rock star only on stage.
731
00:56:32,304 --> 00:56:37,565
I like to be on stage like that,
go home and live normally.
732
00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:42,043
You
are always in leather on stage, very rocking.
733
00:56:42,391 --> 00:56:47,260
Have you ever thought
about doing something else?
734
00:56:47,521 --> 00:56:52,956
Yes, I always picture myself
singing love songs in an evening dress.
735
00:56:53,173 --> 00:56:56,173
Will you do it?
- That was just a joke.
736
00:57:08,043 --> 00:57:12,173
I still
remember the first Rolling Stone cover.
737
00:57:12,608 --> 00:57:15,043
I thought, "That's it! America is calling!"
738
00:57:22,956 --> 00:57:27,000
On the cover I thought,
"Wow! You really did it."
739
00:57:27,260 --> 00:57:32,260
I think that's a yardstick.
If you are on the cover, then you are who.
740
00:57:32,956 --> 00:57:36,130
I read about a club in LA
741
00:57:36,565 --> 00:57:39,000
der hieß "Rodney's English Disco".
742
00:57:39,217 --> 00:57:43,826
It was playing that British glitter
sound that couldn't be heard here.
743
00:57:48,217 --> 00:57:53,782
I guess I started going
to Rodney's in 1975
744
00:57:54,086 --> 00:57:55,478
and also to the "Sugar Shack".
745
00:57:57,826 --> 00:58:00,000
Man, did I dance on "Can the Can"
746
00:58:00,217 --> 00:58:01,826
und "Your Mama Won't Like Me"!
747
00:58:07,347 --> 00:58:11,956
It only took place in the discos
and in the underground,
748
00:58:12,173 --> 00:58:14,347
before the radio picked it up.
749
00:58:14,739 --> 00:58:18,434
Once I left the club with a bunch of kids
750
00:58:18,695 --> 00:58:21,347
that we called "glitter animals",
751
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:25,086
drove to LA airport
752
00:58:26,304 --> 00:58:29,260
to meet Suzi Quatro and her band.
753
00:58:32,217 --> 00:58:36,913
The musicians heard Suzi Quatro,
many of the girls learned to play the guitar because of her.
754
00:58:37,260 --> 00:58:40,826
Many of them learned drums and bass because of her.
755
00:58:41,478 --> 00:58:43,913
Before that, they would never have dared to do it.
756
00:58:44,217 --> 00:58:46,304
Joan Jett was one of those
757
00:58:46,695 --> 00:58:51,782
who saw Suzi Quatro as a prototype.
Because she really did it.
758
00:58:52,130 --> 00:58:58,521
Joan Jett looked exactly like Suzi Quatro.
759
00:58:58,869 --> 00:59:02,000
We had to dye her hair
760
00:59:02,521 --> 00:59:04,521
change clothes.
761
00:59:05,304 --> 00:59:09,217
She worked on the way to move
762
00:59:09,652 --> 00:59:12,521
to have everything from Suzi
763
00:59:12,826 --> 00:59:16,869
the corridor or the way she shakes her hair.
764
00:59:17,130 --> 00:59:20,173
"Joan, you are great!
765
00:59:20,956 --> 00:59:24,130
Be Joan and let Suzi be Suzi. "
766
00:59:24,695 --> 00:59:27,826
Your influence was crucial to me
767
00:59:28,217 --> 00:59:32,043
to find out who I was to
find my style
768
00:59:32,739 --> 00:59:35,173
to become a personality of its own.
769
00:59:35,434 --> 00:59:38,434
And through her I got the strength
770
00:59:39,826 --> 00:59:40,826
to do it.
771
00:59:41,217 --> 00:59:48,043
We got to LA and made friends
with Joan Jett and some of the Runaways.
772
00:59:48,478 --> 00:59:52,521
Joan was a great admirer
773
00:59:52,782 --> 00:59:56,347
really a big fan of Suzi.
774
00:59:57,260 --> 01:00:01,304
All the bands have always been in the Hyatt House,
also known as the "Riot House".
775
01:00:01,739 --> 01:00:04,608
As soon as you went in,
Joan Jett came running.
776
01:00:05,347 --> 01:00:07,565
"Give me an autograph!"
She was always there.
777
01:00:07,956 --> 01:00:12,739
She's just running away. I know that,
I've been with runaways for three years.
778
01:00:13,260 --> 01:00:16,913
There was a great magazine in Germany,
the "Bravo".
779
01:00:17,130 --> 01:00:20,173
Suzi Quatro was often on the cover.
780
01:00:20,434 --> 01:00:22,217
It was big all over Europe.
781
01:00:23,000 --> 01:00:25,000
There were also posters in "Bravo".
782
01:00:25,434 --> 01:00:29,000
I put these posters up
in my English disco.
783
01:00:29,260 --> 01:00:34,695
On one was Suzi Quatro in a leather bikini.
784
01:00:35,043 --> 01:00:39,000
And Joan Jett always sat in the corner
where the poster was hanging.
785
01:00:39,695 --> 01:00:42,260
At some point the poster was gone.
786
01:00:44,739 --> 01:00:48,000
I had my own posters.
I wouldn't have stolen from Rodney.
787
01:00:52,434 --> 01:00:57,130
In the States
, the key to success is radio.
788
01:00:57,478 --> 01:00:59,782
If you're on the radio, you have a chance.
789
01:01:03,913 --> 01:01:08,260
In America we were on the radio all the time.
Always 4 or 5 in a row.
790
01:01:08,826 --> 01:01:13,391
You arrive in a city and go
to a broadcaster before going to the hotel.
791
01:01:13,695 --> 01:01:16,000
And then another transmitter and another.
792
01:01:16,913 --> 01:01:20,782
If you
wanted to put a record in America back then
793
01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:24,043
Did you send guys out with plenty of cocaine?
794
01:01:24,304 --> 01:01:29,043
and if everyone was high
the record might have been played a few times.
795
01:01:36,391 --> 01:01:40,260
{\ an3} RAK RECORDS 'NEW FEMALE STAR
CONQUERS AMERICA!
796
01:01:41,304 --> 01:01:45,521
Mickie had had huge success in the United States.
797
01:01:45,956 --> 01:01:49,043
With the Animals, the Yardbirds and so on.
798
01:01:49,826 --> 01:01:53,086
But the people he worked with
799
01:01:53,347 --> 01:01:55,173
didn't understand Suzi.
800
01:01:55,739 --> 01:01:58,913
He just went to his people ...
801
01:01:59,304 --> 01:02:01,869
There's nothing wrong with Clive Davis either.
802
01:02:02,086 --> 01:02:06,478
I was in a bungalow at
the Beverly Hills Hotel with Clive
803
01:02:06,739 --> 01:02:11,826
and played him "Can the Can"
and "48 Crash".
804
01:02:12,043 --> 01:02:16,217
And all his talent scouts in the room said
805
01:02:16,478 --> 01:02:19,782
they would make huge hits out of it.
806
01:02:21,260 --> 01:02:24,000
His promoters couldn't do it.
807
01:02:24,478 --> 01:02:28,826
I thought she was going to be a star in America.
But that didn't happen.
808
01:02:30,869 --> 01:02:32,347
{\ an1} COMPOSER AND PRODUCER
809
01:02:32,608 --> 01:02:34,217
When I heard the record I thought:
810
01:02:34,478 --> 01:02:37,304
"The best girl I've ever heard."
811
01:02:37,956 --> 01:02:42,826
But
somehow this style of music never made it, I thought
812
01:02:43,217 --> 01:02:44,695
it is a sure-fire success.
813
01:02:45,043 --> 01:02:49,565
It was probably too early for the industry,
too early for the market.
814
01:02:50,043 --> 01:02:51,478
They weren't ready for it.
815
01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:55,782
The states weren't ready
816
01:02:56,000 --> 01:02:58,434
there was even more macho.
817
01:02:58,695 --> 01:03:02,304
There was such a Lynyrd-Skynyrd attitude.
818
01:03:02,956 --> 01:03:09,478
The crowd here didn't like
this British glam rock music.
819
01:03:10,478 --> 01:03:15,608
Something was missing from it.
Something wasnâ € ™ t transferring.
820
01:03:15,869 --> 01:03:19,217
And after the Alice Cooper tour
821
01:03:19,565 --> 01:03:24,086
there was no real reason
to bring her back to the States.
822
01:03:24,521 --> 01:03:28,869
There was nothing greater in sight for them.
823
01:03:29,347 --> 01:03:31,869
I did not understand.
824
01:03:32,565 --> 01:03:37,652
She never got over
not being so successful in her own country.
825
01:03:37,913 --> 01:03:42,347
Because she should have been
a big star here.
826
01:03:47,608 --> 01:03:49,913
We got married in England.
827
01:03:50,217 --> 01:03:53,521
We bought a house near his parents.
828
01:03:53,782 --> 01:03:57,521
We were very close, formed a unit,
829
01:03:57,869 --> 01:04:00,000
never got tempted ...
830
01:04:00,347 --> 01:04:03,217
As a personality
he may have looked a little pale,
831
01:04:03,478 --> 01:04:09,173
but I think his
stamina and stature were really important to her.
832
01:04:09,826 --> 01:04:14,260
I was aware
that it was always about "Suzi".
833
01:04:14,521 --> 01:04:17,913
In my private life I have therefore tried
834
01:04:18,565 --> 01:04:21,086
to make it all the more important.
835
01:04:21,913 --> 01:04:25,521
And he knew I did.
836
01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:28,000
He should never be "Mr Quatro".
837
01:05:04,000 --> 01:05:07,739
Mr Udo, the promoter, said:
838
01:05:08,000 --> 01:05:10,391
"You have to do something for me."
839
01:05:10,652 --> 01:05:11,956
"Was denn?"
840
01:05:12,391 --> 01:05:14,086
"You just got married."
841
01:05:14,347 --> 01:05:18,782
That should be kept a secret,
some idiot had leaked it.
842
01:05:19,173 --> 01:05:21,739
"That will upset Japanese fans.
843
01:05:22,304 --> 01:05:26,304
But when we play a wedding in Japan
844
01:05:26,565 --> 01:05:29,347
she will make up for that. "
-" All right . "
845
01:05:30,652 --> 01:05:32,869
We didn't know what that meant.
846
01:05:33,173 --> 01:05:37,608
I had to put on a fucking kimono
and shoes that were way too small
847
01:05:37,869 --> 01:05:39,608
waddle like a geisha.
848
01:05:40,000 --> 01:05:43,869
And that's when
the Runaways came to town
849
01:05:44,130 --> 01:05:46,434
and were invited, of course.
850
01:05:46,826 --> 01:05:50,347
They looked at us like,
"What the hell are you doing?"
851
01:05:51,260 --> 01:05:55,782
"You'll find out soon enough.
In Japan that's called a doctorate."
852
01:06:04,000 --> 01:06:08,000
Slowly but surely I got the feeling
853
01:06:08,391 --> 01:06:11,565
that Nicky was exploiting my abilities.
854
01:06:12,478 --> 01:06:15,565
I didn't mean to feel that way,
but he made me feel that way.
855
01:06:15,956 --> 01:06:17,869
Mike probably didn't like
856
01:06:18,217 --> 01:06:22,521
that Nicky was
on the records as a songwriter .
857
01:06:23,739 --> 01:06:26,217
Nicky is a businessman, not a musician.
858
01:06:26,521 --> 01:06:32,652
I wanted to get started in America and
he hadn't the faintest idea about the market there.
859
01:06:33,217 --> 01:06:35,521
So I went.
860
01:06:36,304 --> 01:06:39,434
When he split up with Nicky
861
01:06:39,695 --> 01:06:43,956
and no longer wanted to work for
someone he had worked for,
862
01:06:44,173 --> 01:06:46,478
everyone thought, "That's it. Restart."
863
01:06:47,347 --> 01:06:51,217
In the contract with Mickie
an album was agreed per year,
864
01:06:51,695 --> 01:06:54,608
and when Mike left there was a gap.
865
01:06:55,000 --> 01:06:59,217
So Mickie produced an album with me.
866
01:06:59,478 --> 01:07:02,000
Mickie Most produzierte "Aggro-Phobia".
867
01:07:07,260 --> 01:07:10,869
Mickie didn't have what it takes to produce me.
868
01:07:11,304 --> 01:07:16,086
The album wasn't bad, but Mickie
couldn't do my edges.
869
01:07:16,521 --> 01:07:20,347
That's not the sound
you want from Suzi and the band.
870
01:07:21,173 --> 01:07:24,260
{\ an3} "TEAR ME APART" ONLY TAKES 27TH
PLACE IN GREAT BRITAIN.
871
01:07:35,130 --> 01:07:38,478
{\ an3} "AGGRO-PHOBIA" DOESN'T MAKE IT INTO
THE US CHARTS.
872
01:07:38,739 --> 01:07:42,304
{\ an3} SUZIS US-
LABEL WILL NOT RENEW YOUR CONTRACT.
873
01:07:45,913 --> 01:07:49,086
In the studio are Joan Jett and Suzi Quatro.
874
01:07:49,782 --> 01:07:51,434
{\ an1} How are you guys? - Fine.
875
01:07:51,695 --> 01:07:54,260
{\ an1} Suzi, haven't seen you for a long time. Some years.
876
01:07:54,521 --> 01:07:58,304
{\ an1} Suzi, do you know Joan was a big fan of yours? - Yes.
877
01:07:58,695 --> 01:08:02,739
She was at all of my appearances.
And in the lobby of the Hyatt House.
878
01:08:03,086 --> 01:08:05,347
Now Joan's a rock star ...
879
01:08:05,608 --> 01:08:07,000
Right.
880
01:08:07,608 --> 01:08:11,304
Suzi, when is there another concert in LA?
881
01:08:11,565 --> 01:08:16,173
As soon as a new album comes out.
We're changing the record label in America
882
01:08:16,434 --> 01:08:19,173
that's why it's a little quieter.
883
01:08:22,217 --> 01:08:25,782
"A place in your soul where you can live.
884
01:08:26,086 --> 01:08:29,304
Nobody knows him, there is nothing to be seen.
885
01:08:30,260 --> 01:08:33,000
The answers you're looking for are waiting there
886
01:08:33,260 --> 01:08:36,521
whether right or wrong, you decide. "
887
01:08:41,565 --> 01:08:45,347
A casting agent
who worked for Happy Days asked me:
888
01:08:45,869 --> 01:08:51,000
"Do you think Debbie Harry would
audition for that role on Happy Days?"
889
01:08:51,565 --> 01:08:56,739
I said, "It's not a role for Debbie Harry,
it's a role for Suzi Quatro."
890
01:08:57,000 --> 01:08:58,173
My oldest daughter
891
01:08:58,826 --> 01:09:03,304
had a lot of Rolling Stone covers in her bathroom.
892
01:09:04,347 --> 01:09:10,000
I described the role to her and she said,
"Sit on the toilet and look over there."
893
01:09:10,217 --> 01:09:13,000
And there was a cover picture of Suzi.
894
01:09:13,782 --> 01:09:17,956
I imagined this character to be
very cute and sexy.
895
01:09:18,173 --> 01:09:20,695
We didn't need anything "hot".
896
01:09:21,000 --> 01:09:23,695
We weren't a TV show
897
01:09:23,956 --> 01:09:26,826
with big-breasted girls.
898
01:09:27,521 --> 01:09:30,478
We wanted pretty, sexy girls.
899
01:09:30,739 --> 01:09:35,173
So we were looking for someone sweet and cute,
and that was Suzi.
900
01:09:35,652 --> 01:09:39,173
SUZI QUATRO GETS ITS OWN TV SHOW
901
01:09:39,652 --> 01:09:41,652
HAPPY DAYS FOR SUZI
902
01:09:42,217 --> 01:09:43,782
SUZI QUATRO MEETS FONZIE
903
01:09:44,043 --> 01:09:46,913
Es war total hip. "Fonzie" war so cool.
904
01:09:47,130 --> 01:09:50,956
And then suddenly Tuscadero came. Leather Tuscadero.
905
01:09:51,391 --> 01:09:55,478
And that was Suzi!
And we all: "This is our Suzi!"
906
01:09:55,826 --> 01:09:56,826
Here, Leather!
907
01:09:57,130 --> 01:09:58,391
There she is.
908
01:10:03,043 --> 01:10:04,869
Hi, Joanie, what's up?
909
01:10:07,739 --> 01:10:10,652
I knew she was a rock 'n' roller
910
01:10:10,913 --> 01:10:14,956
but not
that this incredibly small person
911
01:10:15,869 --> 01:10:17,652
{\ an1} had so much power.
912
01:10:19,217 --> 01:10:23,173
Suzi Quatro had to be taken seriously.
913
01:10:23,913 --> 01:10:29,086
You can
tell right away that Richie Cunningham pretends to play the saxophone
914
01:10:29,347 --> 01:10:31,913
really silly in his university outfit,
915
01:10:32,130 --> 01:10:36,739
while she's obviously
a real musician.
916
01:10:40,304 --> 01:10:43,086
Many people said to me:
917
01:10:44,217 --> 01:10:46,826
"I saw you on Happy Days.
918
01:10:47,043 --> 01:10:48,869
Leather Tuscadero!"
919
01:10:49,521 --> 01:10:51,869
The first couple of times I said
920
01:10:52,086 --> 01:10:55,086
"No! This is Suzi Quatro, man!"
921
01:10:55,826 --> 01:10:58,391
But people were so convinced.
922
01:11:00,260 --> 01:11:05,304
So after the first couple of times I
just said, " Well ? What do you mean?"
923
01:11:06,000 --> 01:11:07,652
That made an impression
924
01:11:07,913 --> 01:11:12,304
and got Mike Chapman
to make records with her again.
925
01:11:12,826 --> 01:11:14,956
We were still friends with Mike.
926
01:11:15,260 --> 01:11:18,043
I told Suzi we should get him back.
927
01:11:18,304 --> 01:11:22,217
He said, "Okay,
I'll think about a song."
928
01:11:22,608 --> 01:11:26,913
A day later he called:
"I have an idea. Can the band come?"
929
01:11:27,130 --> 01:11:28,217
"When?"
- "Now!"
930
01:11:28,695 --> 01:11:33,086
That was a chance
to bring Suzi back into the record world.
931
01:11:33,347 --> 01:11:34,521
And Mike took it.
932
01:11:34,956 --> 01:11:38,130
Mickie Most didn't know about it.
We were under contract with him.
933
01:11:38,652 --> 01:11:43,956
Mike sent him the finished piece
and Mickie said, "I'll listen to it."
934
01:11:44,173 --> 01:11:46,869
He didn't look happy at all.
935
01:11:47,086 --> 01:11:50,260
We went to his office and he hung up.
936
01:11:57,304 --> 01:12:00,782
Halfway through, he broke off:
"It 'll be fine."
937
01:12:01,521 --> 01:12:04,173
And we thought, "He's not happy."
938
01:12:06,000 --> 01:12:11,217
"If You Can't Give Me Love" hit
and we were on the road again.
939
01:12:15,304 --> 01:12:16,782
SUZI COMES BACK
940
01:12:27,260 --> 01:12:30,608
Immediately after that came "Stumblin 'In".
941
01:12:45,304 --> 01:12:47,739
The ballad with Chris Norman from Smokie
942
01:12:48,000 --> 01:12:50,478
is one of my favorite records from her.
943
01:12:51,217 --> 01:12:52,956
A huge success in America
944
01:12:53,173 --> 01:12:57,086
probably her biggest hit there,
but things didn't go so well here.
945
01:13:16,260 --> 01:13:20,304
At that time Great Britain could
n't do anything with a Suzi,
946
01:13:20,608 --> 01:13:24,521
who's not a glam rocker in leather
with a big bass guitar.
947
01:13:24,782 --> 01:13:27,695
Nicky Chinn met the folks from Happy Days.
948
01:13:28,434 --> 01:13:29,956
And he told them
949
01:13:30,173 --> 01:13:35,043
"Happy Days" damage my fame as a rock star.
950
01:13:35,434 --> 01:13:38,304
I should stop.
I have that too.
951
01:13:38,652 --> 01:13:41,086
Are you crazy?
- Rich, I'll do this.
952
01:13:42,086 --> 01:13:43,043
Are you crazy?
953
01:13:45,217 --> 01:13:47,869
{\ an3} SUZI QUATRO
PLAYED "HAPPY DAYS" IN THREE RELAYS
954
01:13:48,086 --> 01:13:51,000
It was great, I enjoyed every moment.
955
01:13:51,217 --> 01:13:56,826
They offered to develop my own series
about Leather Tuscadero.
956
01:13:57,304 --> 01:14:03,000
I liked to play the role, but
didn't want to do an offshoot of "Happy Days".
957
01:14:03,347 --> 01:14:04,782
Thank you, Milwaukee.
958
01:14:08,260 --> 01:14:11,130
We have
rejected "Happy Days" for the past two years,
959
01:14:11,391 --> 01:14:16,521
otherwise I'm too focused on this role,
then Suzi is just Leather Tuscadero.
960
01:14:16,869 --> 01:14:21,739
I've shown that I can act.
Now we're going to look at scripts.
961
01:14:22,086 --> 01:14:24,043
She was offered a film
962
01:14:24,434 --> 01:14:29,739
About a true story in Australia,
where rockers rule a town.
963
01:14:30,130 --> 01:14:31,782
She also refused.
964
01:14:32,304 --> 01:14:34,782
Nicky and Mike both lived in LA now.
965
01:14:35,260 --> 01:14:37,608
I thought I was rid of him.
966
01:14:37,956 --> 01:14:41,086
A year and a half later he bought a house
967
01:14:41,347 --> 01:14:44,826
three doors down
on my Beverly Hills street.
968
01:14:45,304 --> 01:14:49,565
I thought to myself: "He knows something about business."
969
01:14:49,826 --> 01:14:52,869
So I said,
"Nicky, I'm doing a record label
970
01:14:53,086 --> 01:14:54,304
and you run it!
971
01:14:54,652 --> 01:14:58,913
{\ an1} I find the talents,
make the records,
972
01:14:59,304 --> 01:15:00,739
you run the business. "
973
01:15:01,304 --> 01:15:06,608
I said to Nicky
it would be good for our label
974
01:15:07,000 --> 01:15:09,521
to have a star.
975
01:15:10,260 --> 01:15:11,695
Why not Suzi?
976
01:15:12,391 --> 01:15:14,391
Mike said to me:
977
01:15:15,391 --> 01:15:19,391
"I only work with those
978
01:15:20,000 --> 01:15:22,000
who are with my label. "
979
01:15:22,217 --> 01:15:24,000
Mike was my producer.
980
01:15:25,043 --> 01:15:28,347
Most of my hits were from him.
I just thought:
981
01:15:29,565 --> 01:15:33,521
{\ an3} 1980 SUZI LEAVES MICKIE MOST AND
SIGNS WITH DREAMLAND RECORDS.
982
01:15:47,000 --> 01:15:52,130
I made a deal with Robert Stigwood.
It was about millions.
983
01:15:52,695 --> 01:15:55,608
That had to work, otherwise that was it.
984
01:15:56,347 --> 01:16:00,913
Mickie didn't believe it.
I think you lost a lot of money.
985
01:16:01,782 --> 01:16:07,695
{\ an3} DESPITE GOOD CRITICS,
"ROCK HARD" FAILS ON BAD SALES.
986
01:16:08,304 --> 01:16:10,347
It didn't work and that was it.
987
01:16:10,782 --> 01:16:15,565
{\ an1} The end of our partnership.
Because he didn't do his job.
988
01:16:15,956 --> 01:16:17,043
And bye!
989
01:16:17,869 --> 01:16:21,434
Hi, my name is Suzi Quatro.
I was already at "Countdown" in 1974
990
01:16:21,695 --> 01:16:24,260
and will still be there in 1984.
991
01:16:26,782 --> 01:16:30,347
If Suzi had started in the 80s
992
01:16:30,913 --> 01:16:33,391
would have made her a mega-star.
993
01:16:33,826 --> 01:16:39,086
"Can the Can" would
certainly have become number 1 in America.
994
01:16:39,478 --> 01:16:42,391
I came from America
and made it here.
995
01:16:42,652 --> 01:16:45,478
Here they were already so far, not in America.
996
01:16:45,869 --> 01:16:49,304
Then I did "Happy Days",
and through "Leather Tuscadero"
997
01:16:49,565 --> 01:16:52,782
America was suddenly ready
for a Joan Jett hit.
998
01:16:55,000 --> 01:17:00,608
{\ an3} In 1982 JOAN JETTS "I LOVE ROCK 'N' ROLL" WAS IN 1st PLACE FOR
7 WEEKS.
999
01:17:03,130 --> 01:17:09,000
{\ an3} In 1975 MICKIE MOST HAD PRODUCED THE ORIGINAL
WITH THE ARROWS.
1000
01:17:10,130 --> 01:17:13,000
{\ an1} People thought it was me.
"Top of the Pops" called:
1001
01:17:13,347 --> 01:17:15,739
"Oh, you're back!"
- "No.
1002
01:17:16,304 --> 01:17:19,000
You were probably wrong. "
1003
01:17:23,000 --> 01:17:26,739
You think you've done everything,
know what you need, what you want.
1004
01:17:27,000 --> 01:17:29,000
"I'm not going into the trap.
1005
01:17:29,217 --> 01:17:32,913
I don't, "shouted the fool.
And yet you are here.
1006
01:17:45,521 --> 01:17:48,608
I always wanted to have children.
I love children.
1007
01:17:49,217 --> 01:17:52,173
{\ an1} POPSTAR SUZI QUATRO FINALLY MOTHER
AFTER 5 YEARS.
1008
01:17:52,434 --> 01:17:56,391
{\ an1} I've had as many front pages
as Princess Diana.
1009
01:17:57,173 --> 01:18:00,956
That surprised me,
it didn't fit my image.
1010
01:18:01,304 --> 01:18:04,217
I am a normal person,
wanted children, a family.
1011
01:18:04,478 --> 01:18:08,652
And then there were
200 photographers in front of the hospital.
1012
01:18:08,913 --> 01:18:12,913
Lenny said to me,
"Don't mess with mom now."
1013
01:18:13,130 --> 01:18:15,565
And I just thought, "How?"
1014
01:18:16,434 --> 01:18:19,000
"Don't forget that you are Suzi Quatro!"
1015
01:18:19,217 --> 01:18:24,608
What a stupid remark!
Yes, I am Suzi Quatro, but also Laura's mother.
1016
01:18:25,043 --> 01:18:29,130
Since I was his livelihood, he
wanted me to stay "Suzi".
1017
01:18:29,565 --> 01:18:30,652
Who is singing there?
1018
01:18:33,173 --> 01:18:35,000
1984 RICHARD TUCKEY IS BORN.
1019
01:18:35,304 --> 01:18:37,739
Richard. - It's not Richard!
1020
01:18:42,695 --> 01:18:45,478
She knows Mama is Suzi Quatro.
1021
01:18:45,739 --> 01:18:48,173
She points to the television: "Suzi Quatro".
1022
01:18:48,521 --> 01:18:52,565
She knows there is mama
and mama who works.
1023
01:18:52,826 --> 01:18:57,782
She was with us recently.
On the way home she only sang: "48 Crash".
1024
01:18:58,695 --> 01:19:01,913
They shouldn't become spoiled celebrity brats.
1025
01:19:02,130 --> 01:19:07,130
They both went to normal school and
should live normally.
1026
01:19:07,565 --> 01:19:10,043
I grew up like that and had great parents.
1027
01:19:10,304 --> 01:19:12,000
My mother taught me fixed values.
1028
01:19:12,391 --> 01:19:14,347
I wanted that with them too.
1029
01:19:14,608 --> 01:19:17,000
I was just a normal mother.
1030
01:19:17,391 --> 01:19:20,652
Others didn't get along well with it.
1031
01:19:20,913 --> 01:19:23,173
After the kids were there
1032
01:19:23,434 --> 01:19:28,000
Lenny just ... kind of walked away.
1033
01:19:28,608 --> 01:19:31,565
He was always out, went to pubs,
1034
01:19:31,826 --> 01:19:35,478
somehow broke up with me,
was distant.
1035
01:19:35,913 --> 01:19:39,739
{\ an1} When I did "Annie Get Your Gun",
tried something different,
1036
01:19:40,000 --> 01:19:41,521
{\ an1} I sensed Lens disapproval.
1037
01:19:41,782 --> 01:19:44,565
{\ an1} He
'll deny it, but I felt it.
1038
01:19:45,217 --> 01:19:49,173
He wanted to do rock 'n' roll
and not watch me do a musical.
1039
01:19:49,434 --> 01:19:50,913
It wasn't for Lenny.
1040
01:19:51,130 --> 01:19:52,782
I understand his grudge.
1041
01:19:53,130 --> 01:19:58,086
Go over there and I'll teach you
how to hit properly.
1042
01:19:59,173 --> 01:20:02,217
You couldn't even
teach me to spit wide !
1043
01:20:06,173 --> 01:20:08,826
THE MUSICAL STARTS IN CHICHESTER.
1044
01:20:10,869 --> 01:20:12,695
According to enthusiastic reviews
1045
01:20:12,956 --> 01:20:14,652
IT CHANGES TO LONDON.
1046
01:20:15,086 --> 01:20:18,695
It was good that she was American.
Definitely for the British audience.
1047
01:20:19,000 --> 01:20:22,695
But she can play and sing,
has a great stage presence.
1048
01:20:22,956 --> 01:20:25,391
And Annie Oakley is a woman like her
1049
01:20:25,652 --> 01:20:28,000
a 19th century Suzi Quatro.
1050
01:20:33,478 --> 01:20:38,000
I've
waited all my life for praise from my father.
1051
01:20:38,652 --> 01:20:41,695
I always hoped in vain
for praise from my family.
1052
01:20:42,608 --> 01:20:46,565
I remember how I thought before the performance:
1053
01:20:47,000 --> 01:20:53,086
"Do I need praise from my father?"
And when I was 36 I thought for the first time:
1054
01:20:53,521 --> 01:20:54,652
"I don't need it."
1055
01:20:55,000 --> 01:20:58,608
And he came: "Damn it, Suzi, I'm really proud!"
1056
01:20:59,086 --> 01:21:01,304
I had never heard that before.
1057
01:21:01,956 --> 01:21:02,956
No.
1058
01:21:06,434 --> 01:21:12,869
When she was doing Annie Get Your Gun, I
was talking to someone from CBS in London.
1059
01:21:13,217 --> 01:21:15,000
He was very interested.
1060
01:21:15,260 --> 01:21:19,478
When the press wrote about
her doing the musical
1061
01:21:19,739 --> 01:21:23,608
he said, "She can do that, of course,
her decision.
1062
01:21:23,869 --> 01:21:27,000
But don't expect the UK audience
1063
01:21:27,304 --> 01:21:30,652
buys
rock records from the same artist . "
1064
01:21:31,130 --> 01:21:32,826
{\ an1} Then: pantomime.
1065
01:21:33,043 --> 01:21:37,086
{\ an1} For a rock 'n' roller, that's
the kiss of death in Great Britain.
1066
01:21:37,565 --> 01:21:38,956
The absolute kiss of death.
1067
01:21:39,260 --> 01:21:42,695
Lenny was starting to feel like Mr. Quatro.
1068
01:21:43,000 --> 01:21:46,869
As if he'd lost his balls somehow.
1069
01:21:47,304 --> 01:21:50,521
He stayed outside.
And she didn't want to be kept small.
1070
01:21:50,782 --> 01:21:53,869
Very important for them:
Nobody can stop them.
1071
01:21:54,173 --> 01:21:58,391
Not your own husband, nobody.
Not the sisters. She always wants to go on.
1072
01:21:58,913 --> 01:22:00,391
Always step on the gas.
1073
01:22:01,000 --> 01:22:04,347
I will not be pigeonholed.
1074
01:22:04,782 --> 01:22:07,913
You want to trim my wings.
1075
01:22:08,391 --> 01:22:10,782
How can you do this to whoever?
1076
01:22:11,000 --> 01:22:17,000
Just because you love the Suzi Quatro with the bass does
n't mean I'm just that.
1077
01:22:19,695 --> 01:22:22,000
I felt like doing so much.
1078
01:22:22,260 --> 01:22:26,739
I happened upon a book on Tallulah Bankhead.
As if it had meant to me.
1079
01:22:27,086 --> 01:22:32,173
I started reading it and thought,
"I'm writing a musical about the lady."
1080
01:22:32,565 --> 01:22:33,956
{\ an1} CO-AUTHOR TALLULAH
1081
01:22:34,173 --> 01:22:35,739
She had made a lot of rock music
1082
01:22:36,000 --> 01:22:37,695
and wanted to expand their spectrum.
1083
01:22:37,956 --> 01:22:41,043
With the Tallulah Bankhead musical, she could.
1084
01:22:41,478 --> 01:22:45,130
I liked her because I felt
1085
01:22:45,478 --> 01:22:47,086
that it could not be fathomed
1086
01:22:47,347 --> 01:22:48,695
nobody knew her inside.
1087
01:22:49,086 --> 01:22:51,000
She had this facade.
1088
01:22:51,217 --> 01:22:54,043
I've read everything about her
1089
01:22:54,304 --> 01:22:56,130
to get close to her.
1090
01:22:56,391 --> 01:22:58,478
She was lonely as a little girl.
1091
01:22:58,739 --> 01:23:02,391
Her father didn't love her,
so she put on some kind of mask.
1092
01:23:02,869 --> 01:23:08,217
Tallulah was maladjusted.
She cursed, smoked, drank,
1093
01:23:08,695 --> 01:23:10,086
she was bisexual.
1094
01:23:10,347 --> 01:23:13,695
She really was
a formidable person.
1095
01:23:16,652 --> 01:23:19,652
I break all the rules. I do not care!
1096
01:23:20,086 --> 01:23:22,217
The world is full of hypocrites.
1097
01:23:22,652 --> 01:23:27,000
If only they would dare
1098
01:23:27,217 --> 01:23:29,173
to fly with me.
1099
01:23:30,000 --> 01:23:32,826
She had moved away from the family.
1100
01:23:33,173 --> 01:23:35,391
{\ an1} I've visited her a few times.
1101
01:23:36,043 --> 01:23:37,434
{\ an1} Our parents too.
1102
01:23:37,695 --> 01:23:41,260
We knew
she was having problems with her husband
1103
01:23:41,521 --> 01:23:44,043
and that they would probably part.
1104
01:23:44,304 --> 01:23:48,913
But we weren't really included
and suddenly the separation was there.
1105
01:23:49,304 --> 01:23:52,347
That was difficult because I'm a daddy child.
1106
01:23:52,608 --> 01:23:54,000
{\ an3} DAUGHTER
1107
01:23:54,347 --> 01:23:58,782
I gave him my dog
so he wouldn't be alone.
1108
01:24:00,565 --> 01:24:03,260
It took me six years to break up
1109
01:24:03,521 --> 01:24:07,043
because I am Catholic
and I wanted to be absolutely sure.
1110
01:24:07,521 --> 01:24:09,565
Either my marriage dies or I do.
1111
01:24:10,000 --> 01:24:11,565
And I wanted to live.
1112
01:24:15,782 --> 01:24:17,739
"The curtain is falling.
1113
01:24:19,739 --> 01:24:21,782
The applause echoed.
1114
01:24:22,043 --> 01:24:26,869
The crowd leaves the hall,
only a lightbulb lights up the stage.
1115
01:24:27,173 --> 01:24:33,260
I stand there for a minute
and listen to the sound of silence.
1116
01:24:35,304 --> 01:24:37,173
The thunder is over
1117
01:24:38,000 --> 01:24:40,608
I feel myself coming down. "
1118
01:24:54,130 --> 01:24:57,695
Suzi scores again
and only has to hit one target.
1119
01:24:58,086 --> 01:25:00,130
{\ an1} ROCK JOURNALIST / AUTHOR
1120
01:25:00,391 --> 01:25:03,391
Suzi positioned herself very broadly, stayed open.
1121
01:25:04,086 --> 01:25:06,000
{\ an1} She went to the theater,
1122
01:25:06,260 --> 01:25:08,000
{\ an1} continued
to tour.
1123
01:25:08,217 --> 01:25:10,347
{\ an1} She hosted
a talk show,
1124
01:25:10,782 --> 01:25:13,739
{\ an1} starred in television films,
had a radio show,
1125
01:25:14,000 --> 01:25:15,956
played on "Absolutely Fabulous".
1126
01:25:16,173 --> 01:25:20,739
I'm from Detroit. I don't talk.
So: sex? Drugs? Rock 'n' roll?
1127
01:25:21,000 --> 01:25:22,000
Rock 'n' Roll.
1128
01:25:22,434 --> 01:25:26,260
This woman has so much energy
1129
01:25:26,565 --> 01:25:30,000
Personality, talent, that's crazy.
1130
01:25:30,695 --> 01:25:33,130
She could have done anything.
1131
01:25:33,782 --> 01:25:39,434
{\ an1} If she
wants to write poetry or a novel , then she does it.
1132
01:25:40,000 --> 01:25:42,739
{\ an1} Here is Suzi Quatromit from the new "Quatrophonic" series.
1133
01:25:46,173 --> 01:25:49,260
Suzi Quatro, tonight on This is Your Life.
1134
01:25:49,652 --> 01:25:54,130
You
paved the way for many other rock 'n' roll stars.
1135
01:25:54,391 --> 01:25:56,956
Suzi, you know you have inspired me a lot.
1136
01:25:57,173 --> 01:25:59,478
Chrissie Hynde from the Pretenders!
1137
01:26:04,130 --> 01:26:06,000
The honor of standing here ...
1138
01:26:07,086 --> 01:26:08,826
SUZI RECEIVES HONORARY DOCTOR.
1139
01:26:09,043 --> 01:26:10,869
Your options are limitless.
1140
01:26:30,695 --> 01:26:32,695
"Selling a lot of dreams,
1141
01:26:33,130 --> 01:26:35,173
tells many stories
1142
01:26:35,652 --> 01:26:37,608
many years passed. "
1143
01:26:42,826 --> 01:26:45,043
DETROIT, TODAY
1144
01:26:47,000 --> 01:26:50,260
As you get older you start to think:
1145
01:26:52,000 --> 01:26:56,000
"Could I have done without it all?
1146
01:26:56,608 --> 01:26:59,913
No. "
But you think," Yes, indeed,
1147
01:27:00,130 --> 01:27:04,304
I should have been more willing to compromise
or better said
1148
01:27:04,956 --> 01:27:07,782
I should have accepted some things better. "
1149
01:27:08,000 --> 01:27:11,304
There will always be a little void in me
1150
01:27:11,565 --> 01:27:14,391
because I would have liked to have had more time in Detroit
1151
01:27:14,652 --> 01:27:17,913
more time to just be a child.
1152
01:27:18,652 --> 01:27:22,304
I always wanted to get away. Now I may be sorry
1153
01:27:22,652 --> 01:27:26,130
but i was gone for so many years
and it was a great time
1154
01:27:26,391 --> 01:27:29,478
For some reason I want to go back there
1155
01:27:29,869 --> 01:27:31,826
and I don't know why.
1156
01:27:32,043 --> 01:27:37,086
Do you expect
the child to open the door for you?
1157
01:27:37,478 --> 01:27:41,478
I do.
I see little Suzi, I feel her.
1158
01:27:42,000 --> 01:27:45,434
I could just go
back to this life.
1159
01:27:45,826 --> 01:27:49,260
I've got it on the sidewalk in front of the house
1160
01:27:50,304 --> 01:27:54,652
looked for chalk lines because I used to paint there.
1161
01:27:55,304 --> 01:27:58,478
If little Suzi had opened the door ...
1162
01:27:59,000 --> 01:28:05,130
You stare at your old house,
suddenly the door opens and she stands there ...
1163
01:28:05,652 --> 01:28:07,478
What would you say
1164
01:28:15,826 --> 01:28:17,173
I would say:
1165
01:28:17,608 --> 01:28:20,391
"Stay and enjoy it while you can.
1166
01:28:20,826 --> 01:28:25,217
It won't stay that way forever. "
I would say." Take your time
1167
01:28:25,478 --> 01:28:27,347
don't run so fast. "
1168
01:28:29,043 --> 01:28:31,000
This is the little girl.
1169
01:28:31,652 --> 01:28:37,391
Maybe
now I will turn to the little girl again.
1170
01:28:38,000 --> 01:28:42,652
I wouldn't say, "Don't go,"
just: "Don't run like that,
1171
01:28:42,913 --> 01:28:44,652
take your time with life. "
1172
01:28:45,043 --> 01:28:47,565
My mother said
she let me go too early.
1173
01:28:47,826 --> 01:28:51,782
She said, "You always went
where you wanted to go.
1174
01:28:52,869 --> 01:28:54,565
My little Susan. "
1175
01:29:02,000 --> 01:29:05,000
{\ an1} Helen Quatro died in 1992 at the age of 78.
1176
01:29:06,391 --> 01:29:09,043
I'll tell you something now
1177
01:29:09,826 --> 01:29:11,521
what I never wanted to say.
1178
01:29:13,130 --> 01:29:15,956
{\ an1} Arthur Quatro died in 2008 at the age of 94.
1179
01:29:17,521 --> 01:29:20,695
I take the risk,
1180
01:29:21,000 --> 01:29:23,260
won't fall on your face
1181
01:29:26,478 --> 01:29:31,695
I
would give anything for a day with my parents . Everything! Just leave me a guitar.
1182
01:29:31,956 --> 01:29:36,260
You can have the rest.
For a day this ...
1183
01:29:38,434 --> 01:29:40,347
... unconditional love.
1184
01:29:45,826 --> 01:29:49,217
You can't buy that.
Success cannot give you that.
1185
01:29:54,608 --> 01:29:57,652
Can you see it? I'm always like this.
1186
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:04,565
I have to get tall Suzi out.
Suzi Quatro. Does not work.
1187
01:30:08,956 --> 01:30:13,695
I said you would be free,
no shackles to hold you.
1188
01:30:14,260 --> 01:30:18,913
I would like to introduce my backing singers
. This is perhaps unusual
1189
01:30:19,260 --> 01:30:22,826
but they're not
some "old" backing singers.
1190
01:30:23,043 --> 01:30:28,086
With an emphasis on "old"
because they have been with me for almost 40 years.
1191
01:30:28,347 --> 01:30:30,521
And why? It's my sisters.
1192
01:30:31,086 --> 01:30:34,217
Please say hello to Patti, Nancy and Arlene!
1193
01:30:36,391 --> 01:30:39,086
You want a relationship
1194
01:30:39,347 --> 01:30:44,086
to your sisters who
are sometimes unwilling to do so.
1195
01:30:44,478 --> 01:30:46,173
Exactly, they are not.
1196
01:30:46,608 --> 01:30:50,000
But I want to and I keep trying.
1197
01:30:53,130 --> 01:30:57,130
I got the lesson on the last Australian tour .
1198
01:30:57,391 --> 01:30:59,391
Sold out, great audience,
1199
01:30:59,869 --> 01:31:03,565
the band is great,
I am doing a great job !
1200
01:31:08,391 --> 01:31:12,956
And yet I needed
praise from my sister.
1201
01:31:13,869 --> 01:31:16,869
She was in Brisbane and said, "Good concert."
1202
01:31:17,260 --> 01:31:18,826
Maybe a little more precisely?
1203
01:31:19,043 --> 01:31:22,652
A A graduate,
a professional for languages and words,
1204
01:31:22,913 --> 01:31:25,260
and she just says: "Good concert."
1205
01:31:25,695 --> 01:31:28,739
And again: why did I need this?
Well, it was just like that.
1206
01:31:29,217 --> 01:31:33,130
I will never be a fan of Suzi Quatro.
1207
01:31:34,217 --> 01:31:35,217
No.
1208
01:31:36,782 --> 01:31:40,608
And that's not important either.
I admire everything about her
1209
01:31:40,869 --> 01:31:45,565
and I think she will continue to be successful,
but I will never be her fan.
1210
01:31:45,826 --> 01:31:47,391
Because she is my sister.
1211
01:31:48,869 --> 01:31:52,434
You have to love yourself.
No matter what you do in life.
1212
01:31:52,826 --> 01:31:57,782
You have to find it within yourself,
you can't always get it from outside.
1213
01:31:58,304 --> 01:32:02,434
Because the fans won't be
on your deathbed.
1214
01:32:03,000 --> 01:32:04,000
They are not here.
1215
01:32:04,434 --> 01:32:09,347
It is important to be valued by those
you love most.
1216
01:32:09,608 --> 01:32:12,130
That is exactly the reason.
1217
01:32:12,391 --> 01:32:15,913
Appreciated by
those you love most.
1218
01:32:17,739 --> 01:32:22,217
Maybe that's their revenge.
Because I didn't take her with me.
1219
01:32:22,478 --> 01:32:26,956
Maybe they just don't want to give me
what I want.
1220
01:32:27,739 --> 01:32:31,217
Because I didn't give them
what they wanted.
1221
01:32:31,695 --> 01:32:34,869
I think I've made
my peace with it now .
1222
01:32:35,260 --> 01:32:40,521
It does not matter. I can
wait for the rest of my life , it won't happen.
1223
01:32:40,913 --> 01:32:43,347
I have to be content with that.
1224
01:32:45,000 --> 01:32:48,913
I now realize
I made it in spite of them.
1225
01:32:49,956 --> 01:32:53,478
But more importantly,
I made it because of them.
1226
01:32:54,608 --> 01:32:59,478
I see the contradiction in this,
but the two go together.
1227
01:33:01,000 --> 01:33:04,869
One can always regret: "If only I had ..."
1228
01:33:05,086 --> 01:33:09,956
But when you look at what you have,
you can tell that none of it was a mistake.
1229
01:33:10,173 --> 01:33:12,478
Suzi didn't make any mistakes.
1230
01:33:12,869 --> 01:33:18,347
The mistake is they missed them.
That's where the mistake lies.
1231
01:33:18,869 --> 01:33:22,478
In my opinion
, Suzi has Quatro in the music world
1232
01:33:23,304 --> 01:33:26,173
played a crucial role.
1233
01:33:26,608 --> 01:33:30,956
She has shown incredible talent everywhere.
1234
01:33:31,608 --> 01:33:32,739
She is still there.
1235
01:33:33,173 --> 01:33:35,391
And she still packs it.
1236
01:33:35,956 --> 01:33:38,000
That’s something.
1237
01:33:39,869 --> 01:33:45,000
It should really get a lot more attention
1238
01:33:45,478 --> 01:33:50,478
much more honored in music history.
1239
01:33:51,391 --> 01:33:56,956
For being a band leader so early
and having hits like that.
1240
01:33:57,260 --> 01:34:01,000
Suzi had a dream in Detroit
1241
01:34:02,434 --> 01:34:07,260
and after all these years
she's still living that dream.
1242
01:34:07,739 --> 01:34:10,478
That’s great.
1243
01:34:13,086 --> 01:34:18,478
I think the positives
far outweigh the negatives.
1244
01:34:18,826 --> 01:34:23,043
The downside is:
you have to pay the price for it at some point.
1245
01:34:23,304 --> 01:34:25,695
You can be very lonely at some point
1246
01:34:25,956 --> 01:34:28,869
get tempted and think:
1247
01:34:29,130 --> 01:34:32,695
"I'd like to,
but I'm in a relationship."
1248
01:34:32,956 --> 01:34:36,000
At some point, often, you speak to people
1249
01:34:37,173 --> 01:34:41,565
and don't know
if they like Suzi Quatro or you.
1250
01:34:41,826 --> 01:34:44,000
That is the price of fame.
1251
01:34:46,521 --> 01:34:50,000
Sometimes you walk outside,
look like shit
1252
01:34:50,304 --> 01:34:55,000
and someone asks, "Aren't you Suzi Quatro?"
And you just think, "Oh God."
1253
01:34:56,391 --> 01:34:58,391
You are in the toilet
1254
01:34:59,000 --> 01:35:02,956
and someone
slips pen and paper under the door for an autograph.
1255
01:35:03,173 --> 01:35:06,608
That happened to me.
Sometimes it gets too intrusive.
1256
01:35:06,956 --> 01:35:10,782
I am committed to everyone who
buys my records
1257
01:35:11,000 --> 01:35:13,173
everyone who comes to my concerts.
1258
01:35:13,782 --> 01:35:17,521
I am obliged to always do my best.
1259
01:35:18,000 --> 01:35:21,391
If you want an autograph,
I have to do it.
1260
01:35:21,652 --> 01:35:25,217
How dare I get out of a bad mood
1261
01:35:25,608 --> 01:35:27,913
to sniff at one of them?
1262
01:35:28,347 --> 01:35:30,956
This is how I go about my appearances.
1263
01:35:31,347 --> 01:35:33,521
No matter what's going on in my life
1264
01:35:33,782 --> 01:35:36,521
when i do a show
i do a show.
1265
01:35:36,782 --> 01:35:40,478
Then you get everything from me.
All I have to give
1266
01:35:44,695 --> 01:35:45,782
{\ an1} SON
1267
01:35:46,000 --> 01:35:49,478
{\ an3} Your music keeps you young,
is your only true love.
1268
01:35:50,608 --> 01:35:54,130
My son Richard
kept saying for 25 years
1269
01:35:54,565 --> 01:35:57,000
that he wants to write songs.
1270
01:35:57,391 --> 01:36:00,043
Somehow the timing was never right.
1271
01:36:00,304 --> 01:36:03,347
But six months ago he said: "Mum,
1272
01:36:03,826 --> 01:36:06,304
I have to write a few songs with you. "
1273
01:36:06,826 --> 01:36:09,304
Just before you quit
1274
01:36:09,826 --> 01:36:11,565
did you have a good ...
1275
01:36:12,304 --> 01:36:14,782
Just let me again ...
1276
01:36:15,260 --> 01:36:18,000
He wants to remind me who I am.
What did he mean by that?
1277
01:36:18,391 --> 01:36:23,000
He only gave me a few riffs,
that was new territory for me
1278
01:36:23,304 --> 01:36:27,521
but somehow
he pushed the Suzi Quatro button.
1279
01:36:27,782 --> 01:36:31,086
He touched that part of me
and I left.
1280
01:36:34,043 --> 01:36:36,391
It should sound like me, but in the now.
1281
01:36:41,869 --> 01:36:45,652
{\an1}IM MÄRZ 2019 ERSCHEINT "NO CONTROL",
IHR 24. ALBUM.
1282
01:37:11,260 --> 01:37:16,086
"Ich sehe die Welt in ihrer ganzen Pracht.
Die Geschichte ist nun erzählt.
1283
01:37:16,347 --> 01:37:19,608
Und durch meine Augen
grüße ich das Leben
1284
01:37:20,217 --> 01:37:23,217
und lasse meine Wahrheit sich entfalten."
1285
01:37:26,739 --> 01:37:32,000
Ich weiß noch, diese Sommernächte...
Im Auto cruisen, in Prügeleien geraten...
1286
01:37:32,304 --> 01:37:34,652
Eine Bar nach der anderen, jede Nacht.
1287
01:38:04,608 --> 01:38:08,478
Lasst mich sein, wie ich bin.
Wie auch immer das sein mag.
1288
01:38:42,347 --> 01:38:48,043
Ich glaub, ich hab das erreicht,
wofür ich auf diese Welt gekommen bin.
1289
01:38:48,956 --> 01:38:53,739
Ich hab zwei wunderbare Kinder,
eine wunderbare Enkelin,
1290
01:38:54,130 --> 01:38:55,826
eine gute zweite Ehe.
1291
01:38:56,043 --> 01:38:59,695
Immer noch sagen Frauen: "Du bist meine Heldin!"
1292
01:38:59,956 --> 01:39:02,695
und Männer: "Du hingst an meiner Wand."
1293
01:39:03,391 --> 01:39:06,695
Ich sage immer zu Rainer:
"Das nehme ich gar nicht ernst.
1294
01:39:07,434 --> 01:39:11,347
Vielleicht war ich ein Pin-up, aber...
1295
01:39:12,521 --> 01:39:14,391
dieses Pin-up war Suzi Quatro."
1296
01:39:46,260 --> 01:39:52,391
Das Filmteam aus Australien hat mich interviewt,
was mich sehr gefreut hat.
1297
01:39:52,652 --> 01:39:55,043
Ich fühlte mich sehr geehrt.
1298
01:39:55,521 --> 01:39:59,521
Am Ende sagte Liam, der Regisseur:
"Schreib doch einen Song dafür!"
1299
01:39:59,782 --> 01:40:01,173
Und ich so: "Ach..."
1300
01:40:04,521 --> 01:40:09,565
Aber dann: "Das würde ich echt gern machen,
denn da gibt's so viel zu sagen!"
1301
01:40:24,173 --> 01:40:28,521
{\an3}Sie kommt aus der Autostadt,sie ist einmalig.
1302
01:40:30,434 --> 01:40:35,173
{\an3}Ganz in Leder,bist deiner Zeit weit voraus.
1303
01:40:37,173 --> 01:40:42,695
{\an3}Dein Bass hängt so tief, du singst,als hinge dein Leben davon ab.
1304
01:40:43,521 --> 01:40:48,782
{\an3}Einmal nur mit dir "Can the Can"auf dem Devil Gate Drive.
1305
01:40:49,478 --> 01:40:54,130
{\an3}Suzi, du hast mich komplett verhext!
1306
01:40:55,826 --> 01:41:00,347
{\an3}Red Hot Rosie, ich will frei sein!
1307
01:41:01,826 --> 01:41:08,260
{\ an3} Rock 'n' Roll Rosie, Glycerine Queen, wild, unique Suzi.
1308
01:41:09,826 --> 01:41:15,043
{\ an3} Little Bitch Blue, the wild, unique Suzi Q.
1309
01:41:18,391 --> 01:41:23,086
{\ an3} She left home for London, lived in the hotel for a year.
1310
01:41:24,000 --> 01:41:29,304
{\ an3} roamed the streets to the beat of her fearless heart.
1311
01:41:32,652 --> 01:41:36,521
{\ an3} I'm only one of 50 million
1312
01:41:36,913 --> 01:41:41,000
{\ an3} that this star has enchanted ...
1313
01:41:55,478 --> 01:41:57,869
{\an3}Q - U - A - T - R - O!
1314
01:42:04,652 --> 01:42:08,000
{\ an3} You rocked into my soul!
1315
01:42:22,869 --> 01:42:26,434
{\ an3} I'm only one in 50 million.
1316
01:42:32,869 --> 01:42:36,869
{\ an3} There's no doubt you struck the spark.
1317
01:42:37,304 --> 01:42:40,739
{\ an3} Because I was there and saw "48 Crash".
1318
01:42:41,000 --> 01:42:42,000
{\ an3} The guys say:
1319
01:42:42,260 --> 01:42:45,347
{\ an3} "The world belongs to men!" and grin at one another.
1320
01:42:49,000 --> 01:42:51,869
{\ an3} But you scream: "I'm a rocker!
1321
01:42:52,086 --> 01:42:54,782
{\ an3} And you can do me! "
1322
01:43:29,347 --> 01:43:33,521
{\ an3} Subtitling: SUBS Hamburg
Sigrun Kortas, Antje Harbeck