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84-680: Susan Kay Quatro (born June 3, 1950) is an American singer, bass guitarist, songwriter and actress. In the 1970s, she scored a string of singles that found success in Europe and Australia, with both " Can the Can " (1973) and " Devil Gate Drive " (1974) reaching No. 1 in several countries. Quatro released her self-titled debut album in 1973. Since then, she has released fifteen studio albums, ten compilation albums, and one live album. Other songs, including " 48 Crash ", " Daytona Demon ", "The Wild One", and "Your Mama Won't Like Me", also charted highly overseas. Following

168-544: A Lulu , I wouldn't have it. I'd say 'go to hell' and walk out." This was the height of the glam rock period of the 1970s and Quatro, who wore leather clothes, portrayed a wild image while playing music that "hinged mostly on a hard rock chug beneath lyrics in which scansion overruled meaning." In 1972, Quatro embarked as a support act on a UK tour with Thin Lizzy and headliners Slade . Rak Records arranged for her to use Thin Lizzy's newly acquired PA system during this, incurring

252-541: A barrier to women's participation in rock music. This, Quatro's second solo single, was released after she moved from the United States to Britain. In the United States, she had already released two singles with the all-female band The Pleasure Seekers . Her first solo single, " Rolling Stone ," was recorded with session players. "Rolling Stone" only achieved popularity in Portugal, where it went to number one. For "Can

336-431: A book by Willie Rushton . It ran from February 14 to March 9 at Hornchurch , England, where it was billed as "You'll be amazed how Tallulah did it, and to whom – and how often!" The show received favorable reviews from the majority of critics. In more recent times, Quatro has hosted weekly rock and roll programs on BBC Radio 2 . The first one was titled Rockin' with Suzi Q , while her second programme

420-552: A cameo appearance as a nurse in the "Hospital" episode of the comedy Absolutely Fabulous . She also was filmed in the 1990 Clive Barker horror film Nightbreed , but the studio cut out her character. In 2006, Quatro performed the voice of Rio in the Bob the Builder film Built to Be Wild , and appeared in an episode of the second season of Rock School , in Lowestoft . She also appeared in

504-586: A charge of £300 per week that enabled the Irish band to effectively purchase it at no cost to themselves. In May 1973, her second single " Can the Can " (1973) – which Philip Auslander describes as having "seemingly nonsensical and virtually unintelligible lyrics" – was a No. 1 hit in parts of Europe and in Australia. "Can the Can" was followed by three further hits: " 48 Crash " (1973), "Daytona Demon" (1973) and " Devil Gate Drive " (1974). "Can

588-704: A date to a fraternity formal with Ralph Malph . Marshall offered Quatro a Leather Tuscadero spin-off, but she declined the offer, saying she did not want to be typecast. Other acting roles include a 1982 episode of the British comedy-drama series Minder (called " Dead Men Do Tell Tales ") as Nancy, the singer girlfriend of Terry ( Dennis Waterman ). In 1985, she starred as a mentally disturbed ex-MI5 operative in Dempsey and Makepeace – "Love you to Death". In February 2022 Quatro gave an exclusive interview to Paul Stenning regarding her appearance in both shows. In 1994, she made

672-604: A decor described as "A sort of Beirut with Chinese influences." The composer Eric Satie , after finishing his studies at the Conservatory, earned his living playing the piano at the Chat Noir . By 1896, there were 56 cabarets and cafes with music in Paris, along with a dozen music halls. The cabarets did not have a high reputation; one critic wrote in 1897 that "they sell drinks which are worth fifteen centimes along with verses which, for

756-407: A great deal of social commentary. When New York cabarets featured jazz, they tended to focus on famous vocalists like Nina Simone , Bette Midler , Eartha Kitt , Peggy Lee , and Hildegarde rather than instrumental musicians. Julius Monk 's annual revues established the standard for New York cabaret during the late 1950s and '60s. Cabaret in the United States began to decline in the 1960s, due to

840-617: A hit in the US peaking at number 56 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1976. It was re-released as a single in the UK, with " Devil Gate Drive " as the B-side, in 1984, but failed to chart. The single made the charts again in 1987 in the UK at number 87, it also appeared on her 1995 album What Goes Around . This single made Quatro the first female bass guitar player to become a major rock star and therefore broke

924-400: A mutual friend. Quatro is possibly best known in the United States for her role as the bass player Leather Tuscadero on the television show Happy Days . The show's producer, Garry Marshall , had offered her the role without having an audition after seeing a photograph of her on his daughter's bedroom wall. Toby Mamis , who was acting as her U.S. representative at that time, helped broker

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1008-421: A new song: "From sitting at my piano in my front room, writing down a title (always first), picking up my bass, figuring out the groove, going back to the piano ... working on the lyrics, playing electric guitar ... and finally I type out the lyrics. Only then is it officially a song. Next it goes down on my tiny 8-track , [with] me playing everything ... this is the version all muso's use to get into

1092-508: A recurring role as bass player Leather Tuscadero on the popular American sitcom Happy Days , her duet " Stumblin' In " with Smokie 's lead singer Chris Norman reached No. 4 in the US, her only song to chart in the Top 40 in her homeland. Between 1973 and 1980, Quatro was awarded six Bravo Ottos , an award given to musicians as voted in the German teen magazine Bravo . In 2010, she was voted into

1176-570: A revival of American cabaret, particularly in New Orleans , Chicago , Seattle , Portland , Philadelphia , Orlando , Tulsa , Asheville, North Carolina , and Kansas City, Missouri , as new generations of performers reinterpret the old forms in both music and theater. Many contemporary cabaret groups in the United States and elsewhere feature a combination of original music, burlesque and political satire. In New York City, since 1985, successful, enduring or innovative cabaret acts have been honored by

1260-571: A small room (12th century). The first printed use of the word kaberet is found in a document from 1275 in Tournai . The term was used since the 13th century in Middle Dutch to mean an inexpensive inn or restaurant ( caberet , cabret ). The word cambret , itself probably derived from an earlier form of chambrette , little room, or from the Norman French chamber meaning tavern, itself derived from

1344-539: A waistcoat on top – she looked hot". Quatro received formal training in playing classical piano and percussion—her first instrument was bongos . She taught herself how to play the bass, after her sister asked her to learn it for her first band, the Pleasure Seekers . Her father gave her a 1957 Fender Precision bass guitar in 1964, which she still uses in the studio. Quatro played drums or percussion from an early age as part of her father's jazz band,

1428-635: A way to apply it to their own lives, because grouping together takes away the whole idea of Women's Lib. The interviewer, Charles Shaar Murray , considered her viewpoint to be "... somewhat anomalous, because unless the woman in question happens to be well known, she has no way of letting people hear her unless she unites with other women and then elects a spokesman." He also noted the apparent contradiction that Quatro seemed proud that girls were writing to her saying that they were emulating her look and her attitude. In 1974, Quatro believed that, unlike men, women were burdened with emotional responses and that it

1512-513: Is pretty impossible, you can't get one can inside another if they are the same size, so we're saying you can't put your man in the can if he is out there and not willing to commit." The song "Ain't Ya Something Honey," with which "Can the Can" was backed, was written and composed by Quatro and produced by Mickie Most . Shipments figures based on certification alone. Cabaret The term originally came from Picard language or Walloon language words camberete or cambret for

1596-528: Is the Kleinkunstacademie (English: Cabaret Academy). It is often a mixture of (stand-up) comedy, theatre, and music and often includes social themes and political satire. In the mid twentieth century, "the big three" were Wim Sonneveld , Wim Kan , and Toon Hermans . Nowadays, many cabaret shows of popular "cabaretiers" (performers of cabaret) are broadcast on national television, especially on New Year's Eve, when several special cabaret shows are aired where

1680-557: The If you knew Suzi... album. A year later, Quatro released Suzi ... and Other Four Letter Words , but none of her other work had much US success. This featured the hits "She's in Love with You", which made No. 11 in Britain, "Mama's Boy" (number 34), and "I've Never Been in Love" (number 56). In 1980, after Quatro's contract with Mickie Most had expired, she signed with Chapman's Dreamland Records. In

1764-529: The Croix de Lorraine on the modern rue Bourg-Tibourg. In 1773, French poets, painters, musicians and writers began to meet in a cabaret called Le Caveau on rue de Buci, where they composed and sang songs. The Caveau continued until 1816, when it was forced to close because its clients wrote songs mocking the royal government. In the 18th century, the café-concert or café-chantant appeared, which offered food along with music, singers, or magicians. The most famous

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1848-523: The Grateful Dead . A handful of music halls exist today in Paris, attended mostly by visitors to the city; and a number of more traditional cabarets, with music and satire, can be found. In the Netherlands, cabaret or kleinkunst (literally: "small art") is a popular form of entertainment, usually performed in theatres. The birth date of Dutch cabaret is usually set at August 19, 1895. In Amsterdam, there

1932-526: The Rock Hard album, titled "Lipstick", was released in February 1981, but radio refused to play it as they claimed it sounded too much like Gloria by Them . Suzi Quatro's Greatest Hits , which was released in 1980, peaked at No. 4 in the UK charts, becoming her highest-charting album there. After Chapman's Dreamland Records folded in 1981, Quatro was left without a record label. Her last UK hit for some time

2016-502: The 1990s, Quatro released four new albums, though Unreleased Emotion had been recorded several years previously. What Goes Around – Greatest & Latest was released in 1995 and consisted of mainly older hits rerecorded; this proved a success in Denmark. Except for 1999's Free the Butterfly self-help album, it would take a further 11 years for Quatro to release a new album. Back to

2100-520: The Alhambra Music Hall in 1902, and the Printania in 1903. The Printania, open only in summer, had a large music garden which seated twelve thousand spectators, and produced dinner shows which presented twenty-three different acts, including singers, acrobats, horses, mimes, jugglers, lions, bears and elephants, with two shows a day. In the 20th century, the competition from motion pictures forced

2184-547: The Art Quatro Trio. Sources vary regarding whether her playing in the band began at the age of seven or eight, and whether the instrument she played was a drum kit or percussion ( bongo or congas ). Subsequently, she appeared on local television as a go-go dancer in a pop music series. In 1964, after seeing a television performance by the Beatles , Quatro's older sister, Patti, had formed an all-female garage rock band called

2268-575: The Can", "48 Crash" and "Devil Gate Drive" each sold over one million copies and were awarded gold discs , although they met with little success in her native United States, where she had toured as a support act for Alice Cooper . Rak Records' artists had generally not succeeded in the US and her first album, Suzi Quatro , was criticised by Alan Betrock for its lack of variety, for its Quatro-written "second-rate fillers" and for her voice, described as "often too high and shrill, lacking punch or distinctive phrasing." Writing for Rolling Stone , Greg Shaw

2352-809: The Can", referencing the similarity of the tunes for the two songs. In April 2013, she performed in America for the first time in over 30 years, at the Detroit Music Awards where she received the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award, presented to her by her sister, Patti. In 2017, Quatro released her sixteenth studio album backed by Andy Scott from Sweet on guitar and Don Powell from Slade on drums. In August 2023, Quatro released an album of duets with KT Tunstall entitled Face to Face . After discovering they were mutual fans of each other, they were put in touch with each other by

2436-474: The Can," Quatro had organized her own band, which had toured the United Kingdom as the warm-up act for Slade and Thin Lizzy , and they had new songwriters/producers Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn . The song "Can the Can" was written, composed, and produced by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn. It has the refrain  : According to songwriter Nicky Chinn, the phrase "can the can" means "... something that

2520-505: The Champs-Élysées opened in 1946, presenting Édith Piaf, Laurel and Hardy , Shirley MacLaine , Marlene Dietrich , Maurice Chevalier , and Noël Coward . The Crazy Horse Saloon , featuring striptease, dance, and magic, opened in 1951. The Olympia Paris went through a number of years as a movie theater before being revived as a music hall and concert stage in 1954. Performers there included Piaf, Dietrich, Miles Davis , Judy Garland , and

2604-607: The Drive in 2006 showed a return to Quatro's harder rock roots, rather than the smoother sounds of her previous albums. Back to the Drive also returned Quatro to the worldwide charts – her first album to do so since 1980s Rock Hard . Back to the Drive also produced a download only single "I'll Walk Through the Fire with You". Quatro released In the Spotlight in 2011 with the lead single, "Whatever Love Is". Quatro marked her 50th anniversary in

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2688-638: The Essex manor house. Toward the end of 2008, Quatro's children had moved out of the house and she temporarily put it up for sale, stating that she had empty nest syndrome . Quatro continues to live in Essex and Hamburg , and sometimes in Detroit . Since 2011, she has published music videos on YouTube . On March 31, 2012, Quatro broke her right knee and left wrist while boarding an aircraft in Kyiv , Ukraine , where she had performed

2772-689: The Kinks , Eddie and the Hot Rods and Dr. Feelgood on the Mark Cunningham-produced cover version of David Bowie 's " Heroes ", released the following year as the 1986 BBC Children in Need single. Quatro also released a cover version of " Wild Thing " in November 1986, as a duet with The Troggs singer Reg Presley . "Can the Can"/"Devil Gate Drive" were re-released in 1987 as a single and reached number 87 in

2856-507: The Late Latin word camera meaning an arched roof. Cabarets had appeared in Paris by at least the late 15th century. They were distinguished from taverns because they served food as well as wine, the table was covered with a cloth, and the price was charged by the plate, not the mug. They were not particularly associated with entertainment even if musicians sometimes performed in both. Early on, cabarets were considered better than taverns; by

2940-567: The Michigan Rock and Roll Legends online Hall of Fame. She is reported to have sold over 50 million records worldwide, and continues to perform live. Quatro's most recent studio album, Face to Face , was released in 2023 and follows the 2021 collaboration The Devil in Me with her son Richard Tuckey who had already taken part in No Control in 2019. Quatro also remains active in radio broadcasting. Quatro

3024-481: The Pleasure Seekers with two friends. Quatro joined too and assumed the stage name of Suzi Soul; Patti Quatro was known as Patti Pleasure. Suzi would sing and play bass in the band. The band also later featured another sister, Arlene. Many of their performances were in cabaret , where attention was (initially) focused more on their physical looks than their actual music. They sometimes had to wear miniskirts and wigs, which Quatro later considered to be necessary evils in

3108-560: The Spotlight (and its single, "Spotlight"). This album is a mixture of new songs written by Mike Chapman and by herself, along with some cover versions. A second single from the album, "Whatever Love Is", was subsequently released. On November 16, 2011, a music video (by Tischler-Blue) for the track " Strict Machine " was released onto the Suzi Quatro Official YouTube channel. The track is a cover of Goldfrapp 's "Strict Machine", but Quatro's version contains two lines from "Can

3192-451: The UK Top 30, her first hit to have done so in three years. It would take another year for another big hit, this time with a change to a more mellow style giving Quatro a 1978 single " If You Can't Give Me Love " that became a hit there and in the United Kingdom. Later that year, " Stumblin' In ", a duet with Chris Norman of the band Smokie , reached No. 4 in the US. Both tracks were featured on

3276-494: The UK charts. She was also part of the Ferry Aid charity single " Let It Be ", which was a UK No. 1, 13 years and 26 days after Quatro's last UK No. 1. In 1989, Quatro released a prerecorded backing track single "Baby You're a Star", which was released in the UK, though it failed to chart. By the late 80's, it was clear that Quatro's hitmaking days were over, though she still recorded persistently despite lack of chart success. During

3360-687: The annual Bistro Awards. The Cabaret Theatre Club, later known as The Cave of the Golden Calf , was opened by Frida Strindberg (modelled on the Kaberett Fledermaus in Strindberg's native Vienna) in a basement at 9 Heddon Street, London, in 1912. She intended her club to be an avant-garde meeting place for bohemian writers and artists, with decorations by Jacob Epstein , Eric Gill , and Wyndham Lewis , but it rapidly came to be seen as an amusing place for high society and went bankrupt in 1914. The Cave

3444-404: The band and Arlene had left following the birth of her child. Quatro moved to England in 1971, after being spotted by the record producer Mickie Most , who had by that time founded his own label, Rak Records . Most had been persuaded to see Cradle by her brother Michael , who was managing the band. Like other music producers at the time, Most was looking for a female rock singer who could fill

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3528-555: The cabaretier usually reflects on large events of the past year. German Kabarett developed from 1901, with the creation of the Überbrettl ( Superstage ) venue, and by the Weimar era in the mid-1920s, the Kabarett performances were characterized by political satire and gallows humor . It shared the characteristic atmosphere of intimacy with the French cabaret from which it was imported, but

3612-646: The charts. This was a solo effort, although aided by people such as Duncan Browne , Peter Frampton and Alan White . Subsequently, with the approval of Most, she auditioned for a band to accompany her. It was also after this record that Most introduced her to the songwriting and production team of Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman , who wrote songs specifically to accord with her image. She agreed with Most's assessment of her image, saying that his influence, at which some of his artists – such as Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart  – balked, did not extend to manufacture and that "If he tried to build me into

3696-400: The charts." Around this time, Quatro recorded a new album that was shelved until 1997, when it was issued as Unreleased Emotion . Quatro briefly returned to recording for two more singles, "I Go Wild" in 1984, and in 1985 her " Tonight I Could Fall in Love "/"Good Girl (Looking for a Bad Time)" single reached No. 140 in the UK charts. Quatro also collaborated with Bronski Beat and members of

3780-1432: The club. . . . the question of the legality of these vouchers led to a famous visitation of the police. That was the night a certain Duke was got out by way of the kitchen lift . . . The visitation was a well-mannered affair' One of the main gathering centers of cabarets in Tehran (Iranian capital) was Laleh-Zar Street . Famous Persian cabarets were active in the city until 1979 . They also introduced many domestic artists. In common language, cabaret sometimes called by Iranians "home of dance" (In Persian : رقاص‌خانه ) or "dancing place". In Stockholm , an underground show called Fattighuskabarén ( Poor House Cabaret ) opened in 1974 and ran for 10 years. Performers of later celebrity and fame (in Sweden) such as Ted Åström , Örjan Ramberg , and Agneta Lindén began their careers there. Wild Side Story also had several runs in Stockholm, at Alexandra's (1976 with Ulla Jones and Christer Lindarw ), Camarillo (1997), Rosenlundsteatern/Teater Tre (2000), Wild Side Lounge at Bäckahästen (2003 with Helena Mattsson ) and Mango Bar (2004). Alexandra's had also hosted AlexCab in 1975, as had Compagniet in Gothenburg . In 2019

3864-709: The dance halls to put on shows that were more spectacular and more complex. In 1911, the producer Jacques Charles of the Olympia Paris created the grand staircase as a setting for his shows, competing with its great rival, the Folies Bergère which had been founded in 1869. Its stars in the 1920s included the American singer and dancer Josephine Baker . The Casino de Paris , directed by Leon Volterra and then Henri Varna, presented many famous French singers, including Mistinguett, Maurice Chevalier , and Tino Rossi . Le Lido on

3948-431: The deal and generate enormous media attention to it, elevating Quatro's profile in her home country. Leather was the younger sister of Fonzie's former girlfriend, motorcycle trick rider Pinky Tuscadero. Leather fronted a rock band joined by principal characters Richie Cunningham , Potsie Weber , Ralph Malph , Chachi Arcola , and even Joanie Cunningham once. The character returned in other guest roles, including once for

4032-457: The earliest all-female rock bands to gain national attention. Her brother, Michael Quatro , is also a musician. She was influenced at the age of six by seeing Elvis Presley perform on television. She has said that she had no direct female role models in music, but was inspired by Billie Holiday and liked the dress sense of Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las "because she wore tight trousers and

4116-843: The end of the century, there were only a few cabarets of the old style remaining where artists and bohemians gathered. They included the Cabaret des noctambules on Rue Champollion on the Left Bank; the Lapin Agile at Montmartre; and Le Soleil d'or at the corner of the quai Saint-Michel and boulevard Saint-Michel, where poets including Guillaume Apollinaire and André Salmon met to share their work. The music hall , first invented in London, appeared in Paris in 1862. It offered more lavish musical and theatrical productions, with elaborate costumes, singing, and dancing. The theaters of Paris, fearing competition from

4200-505: The end of the sixteenth century, they were the preferred place to dine out. In the 17th century, a clearer distinction emerged when taverns were limited to selling wine, and later to serving roast meats. Cabarets were frequently used as meeting places for writers, actors, friends and artists. Writers such as La Fontaine , Moliere and Jean Racine were known to frequent a cabaret called the Mouton Blanc on rue du Vieux-Colombier, and later

4284-409: The episode " The Axeman Cometh " of Midsomer Murders in the role of Mimi Clifton. Quatro has also performed in theatre. In 1986, she appeared as Annie Oakley in a London production of Annie Get Your Gun and in 1991 she performed the title role in a musical about the life of actress Tallulah Bankhead . Titled Tallulah Who? , which had music and lyrics co-written by her and Shirlie Roden, with

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4368-406: The exception of Australia, her chart success faltered thereafter, as proven with her 1975 hit "Your Mamma Won't Like Me", which proved to be a moderate success in the UK. Further singles "I Bit off More Than I Could Chew" and "I May Be Too Young", both failed to reach the UK Top 50. Quatro recorded the album Aggro-Phobia in 1976 and released a new single in 1977 called "Tear Me Apart" which reached

4452-507: The final years of the Partitions of Poland . In the interwar Poland there was a considerable number of Yiddish -language cabarets. This art form was called kleynkunst (lliterally "small art") in Yiddish. In post- war Poland, it is almost always associated with the troupe (often on tour ), not the venue ; pre-war revue shows (with female dancers) were long gone. American cabaret

4536-436: The first Serbian cabaret club Lafayette opened. Although Serbia and Belgrade had a rich nightlife and theater life there was no cabaret house until 2019. It retained the intimate atmosphere, entertainment platform, and improvisational character of the French cabaret but developed its own characteristic gallows humour. By the late 1920s the German cabaret gradually had come to feature mildly risque musical entertainment for

4620-454: The first Suzi Quatro – I didn't want to be the new anybody." Most had no interest in the other band members and he had no idea at that time of how he might market Quatro. She spent a year living in a hotel while being nurtured by Most, developing her skills and maturing. Most later said that the outcome was a reflection of her own personality. Quatro's first single, " Rolling Stone ", was successful only in Portugal, where it reached No. 1 on

4704-506: The gallows humor was a distinct German aspect. The Polish kabaret is a popular form of live (often televised ) entertainment involving a comedy troupe, and consisting mostly of comedy sketches , monologues , stand up comedy , songs and political satire (often hidden behind double entendre to fool censors ). It traces its origins to Zielony Balonik , a famous literary cabaret founded in Kraków by local poets, writers and artists during

4788-513: The most emancipated: a small girl leading an all-man group in which she herself plays bass guitar. The image is of a tomboy, lank-haired, tight-bottomed and (twice) tattooed; a rocker, a brooder, a loner, a knife-carrier; a hell-cat, a wild cat, a storm child, refugee from the frightened city of Detroit. In 2020, Quatro was awarded the Icon Award by the Women's International Music Network. In 2011, Quatro

4872-542: The most part, are worth nothing." The traditional cabarets, with monologues and songs and little decor, were replaced by more specialized venues; some, like the Boite a Fursy (1899), specialized in current events, politics and satire. Some were purely theatrical, producing short scenes of plays. Some focused on the macabre or erotic. The Caberet de la fin du Monde had servers dressed as Greek and Roman gods and presented living tableaus that were between erotic and pornographic. By

4956-592: The music halls, had a law passed by the National Assembly forbidding music hall performers to wear costumes, dance, wear wigs, or recite dialogue. The law was challenged by the owner of the music hall Eldorado in 1867, who put a former famous actress from the Comédie-Française on stage to recite verse from Corneille and Racine. The public took the side of the music halls, and the law was repealed. The Moulin Rouge

5040-560: The music industry with an anthology, Girl from Detroit , in 2014 with two new tracks. Around 2005, a documentary chronicling Quatro's life, Naked Under Leather , named after a 1975 bootleg album recorded in Japan, directed by a former member of the Runaways , Victory Tischler-Blue , was made, but this has never been released. In February 2006, Quatro released Back to the Drive , produced by Sweet guitarist Andy Scott . The album's title track

5124-472: The night before. As a result, she had to cancel her appearance at the Detroit Music Awards on April 27, where she was to perform and be inducted into the Detroit Hall of Fame along with her sisters. Had she been able to go, that would have been her first performance in America in over 30 years. Quatro also had to reschedule other concert dates, while some were canceled altogether. In a 2012 interview, Quatro

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5208-417: The participants were ... completely hypocritical. Their leaders stand up there and say, 'We're individuals blab blab blab,' and yet they're all in a group following like sheep. For me, I cannot put the two together ... I'm talking about the masses that follow [the movement's leaders who get press attention] and who have nothing at all to say. It gives it all a very phony light. I hope they can find

5292-580: The pursuit of success. However, they would become well-known fixtures in the burgeoning Detroit music community. The Pleasure Seekers recorded three singles and released two of these: "Never Thought You'd Leave Me" / "What a Way to Die" (1966) and "Light of Love" / "Good Kind of Hurt" (1968). The second of these was released by Mercury Records , with whom they briefly had a contract before breaking away due to differences of opinion regarding their future direction. They changed their name to Cradle in late 1969, not long after another Quatro sister, Nancy, had joined

5376-453: The rising popularity of rock concert shows, television variety shows , and general comedy theaters. However, it remained in some Las Vegas-style dinner shows, such as the Tropicana , with fewer comedy segments. The art form still survives in various musical formats, as well as in the stand-up comedy format, and in popular drag show performances. The late 20th and early 21st century saw

5460-404: The same year, she released the album Rock Hard ; both the album and title single went platinum in Australia. Rock Hard was also used in the cult film Times Square and was included on the soundtrack album. The single reached No. 11 in Australia, but only 68 in the UK due to distribution problems. It was clear at this point that the hit single career was beginning to wane. A second single from

5544-440: The tune ... then into the studio and we go from there." Quatro married her long-time guitarist, Len Tuckey , in 1976. They had two children together, and divorced in 1992. Before 1993, Quatro lived with her two children in a manor house not far from Chelmsford in Essex, England, that she and Tuckey bought in 1980. She married German concert promoter Rainer Haas in 1993. In 2006, her daughter and grandchild moved back into

5628-599: The void created by the death of Janis Joplin . According to the Encyclopedia of Popular Music , his attention to Quatro was drawn by "her comeliness and skills as bass guitarist, singer and chief show-off in Cradle." She had also been attracting attention from Elektra Records and subsequently explained that "According to the Elektra president, I could become the new Janis Joplin . Mickie Most offered to take me to England and make me

5712-433: The way I am. If I wanted to play a bass solo, it never occurred to me that I couldn't. When I saw Elvis for the first time when I was 5, I decided I wanted to be him, and it didn't occur to me that he was a guy. That's why it had to fall to somebody like me. In a 1973 interview, Quatro sympathized with many of the opinions voiced by the women's liberation movement while distancing herself from it because she considered that

5796-563: Was Le Chat Noir in the bohemian neighborhood of Montmartre , created in 1881 by Rodolphe Salis , a theatrical agent and entrepreneur. It combined music and other entertainment with political commentary and satire. The Chat Noir brought together the wealthy and famous of Paris with the bohemians and artists of Montmartre and the Pigalle . Its clientele "was a mixture of writers and painters, of journalists and students, of employees and high-livers, as well as models, prostitutes and true grand dames searching for exotic experiences." The host

5880-587: Was " Heart of Stone " in late 1982. In 1983 another single "Main Attraction" was released. It failed to chart, but did become a moderate airplay hit. She commented in an article for Kerrang! in 1983, after playing a successful show at Reading Festival on August 27, that she did not care about being in the charts, but was more interested in releasing what she wanted to; commenting that she started in 1964, and did not become famous for nine years "I would never accept having my career molded by other people ... I've kept working consistently even though I've not been in

5964-399: Was Salis himself, calling himself a gentleman- cabaretier ; he began each show with a monologue mocking the wealthy, ridiculing the deputies of the National Assembly, and making jokes about the events of the day. The cabaret was too small for the crowds trying to get in; at midnight on June 10, 1885, Salis and his customers moved down the street to a larger new club at 12 rue de Laval, which had

6048-417: Was a little bit easier, which is good. I'm proud of that. If I have a legacy, that's what it is. It's nothing I take lightly. It was gonna happen sooner or later. In 2014, I will have done my job 50 years. It was gonna be done by somebody, and I think it fell to me to do because I don't look at gender. I never have. It doesn't occur to me if a 6-foot-tall guy has pissed me off not to square up to him. That's just

6132-614: Was also downbeat, saying that the album "may be a necessary beginning". In 1973, Quatro played on the Cozy Powell hit " Dance With the Devil ", a track written by Mickie Most while Cozy Powell was part of the Rak Records roster. Musicians who acted as her backing band around this period included Alastair McKenzie, Dave Neal and Len Tuckey , with Robbie Blunt also being listed by some sources. Tuckey's brother, Bill, acted as tour manager. With

6216-426: Was asked what she thought she had achieved for female rockers in general. She replied: Before I did what I did, we didn't have a place in rock 'n' roll. Not really. You had your Grace Slick and all that, but that's not what I did. I was the first to be taken seriously as a female rock 'n' roll musician and singer. That hadn't been done before. I played the boys at their own game. For everybody that came afterward, it

6300-459: Was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan , United States. Her father, Art, was a semi-professional musician and worked at General Motors . Her paternal grandfather was an Italian immigrant to the U.S. and her mother, Helen, was Hungarian and she died in 1992. Her family name of "Quattrocchi" ("four eyes", meaning "bespectacled") was shortened to Quatro. Quatro's family was living in Detroit when she

6384-439: Was born. She has three sisters, a brother ( Michael Quatro ), and one older half-sister. Her parents fostered several other children while she was growing up. Quatro grew up to be an "extrovert but solitary," according to Philip Norman of The Sunday Times , and she only became close to her mother after leaving the U.S. for Britain. Her sister Arlene is the mother of actress Sherilyn Fenn . Her sister Patti joined Fanny , one of

6468-621: Was given the title Wake Up Little Suzi . She started writing songs alone, then collaborated with other songwriters (such as Len Tuckey, Rhiannon Wolfe, and Shirley Roden), and now mainly writes songs alone once again. Quatro's early recorded songwriting was deliberately limited to album tracks and the B-sides of singles. She said in late 1973, that "...  [the] album tracks are a very different story from [the] singles. The two-minute lo-and-behold commercial single will not come out of my brain, but ain't I gonna worry about it." She describes creating

6552-503: Was imported from French cabaret by Jesse Louis Lasky in 1911. In the United States, cabaret diverged into several different styles of performance mostly due to the influence of jazz music. Chicago cabaret focused intensely on the larger band ensembles and reached its peak during Roaring Twenties , under the Prohibition Era , where it was featured in the speakeasies and steakhouses . New York cabaret never developed to feature

6636-556: Was inducted to the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame. Can the Can "Can the Can" is the second solo single by American singer-songwriter Suzi Quatro and her first to reach number one in the UK, spending a single week at the top of the chart in June 1973. It also reached number one on the European and Australian charts; Quatro achieved her most consistent success throughout her career in these markets. The single belatedly became

6720-419: Was more difficult for them to succeed in the music industry because they are more prone to jealousy and thus female audiences tend not to buy the recordings of female artists. Her unusually free use of swear words in conversation was often picked upon by interviewers in the 1970s, as have been her diminutive stature and boy-ish nature. In 1974, Philip Norman said that Of all female rock singers, she appears

6804-585: Was nevertheless an influential venture, which introduced the concept of cabaret to London. It provided a model for the generation of nightclubs that came after it. "The clubs that started the present vogue for dance clubs were the Cabaret Club in Heddon Street . . . . The Cabaret Club was the first club where members were expected to appear in evening clothes. . . . The Cabaret Club began a system of vouchers which friends of members could use to obtain admission to

6888-556: Was opened in 1889 by the Catalan Joseph Oller. It was greatly prominent because of the large red imitation windmill on its roof, and became the birthplace of the dance known as the French Cancan . It helped make famous the singers Mistinguett and Édith Piaf and the painter Toulouse-Lautrec , who made posters for the venue. The Olympia , also run by Oller, was the first to be called a music hall; it opened in 1893, followed by

6972-668: Was the Cafe des Aveugles in the cellars of the Palais-Royal , which had a small orchestra of blind musicians. In the early 19th century, many cafés-chantants appeared around the city; the most famous were the Café des Ambassadeurs (1843) on the Champs-Élysées and the Eldorado (1858) on boulevard Strasbourg. By 1900, there were more than 150 cafés-chantants in Paris. The first cabaret in the modern sense

7056-614: Was written by her former collaborator, Chapman. In March 2007, Quatro released a cover version of the Eagles song " Desperado ", followed by the publication of her autobiography, Unzipped . By this time, Quatro had sold 50 million records. On June 11, 2010, she headlined the 'Girls Night Out' at the Isle of Wight Festival . Quatro was also inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends online Hall of Fame in 2010, following an on-line vote. In August 2011, Quatro released her fifteenth studio album, In

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