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The Girl From Detroit City is a beautifully presented 4-CD boxed set, celebrating an amazing 50 years in the music business for rock n roll queen, Suzi Quatro.
The 82 tracks on offer here span the whole of Suzis career, including three songs by the Pleasure Seekers, the all-girl rock band, which Suzi formed along with her sister Patti, and which signed to Mercury Records in 1968. Her massive chart hits from the 1970s also feature, including the Chinnichap numbers, Can the Can, 48 Crash and Devil Gate Drive and a whole wealth of material from the 1970s onwards, through to tracks from her critically-acclaimed 2011 album, In The Spotlight, which witnessed her reunion with producer, Mike Chapman; highlights of which included Suzis covers of Goldfrapps Strict Machine and Rhiannas Breaking Dishes plus a Chapman number, A Girl Like Me, which he wrote especially for her.
The Girl From Detroit City comes complete with fascinating up-to-date liner notes, tracking Suzis career from the outset to the present day, and it presents a wealth of album & poster artwork and photographs, including a shot of Suzis incredible vintage Ray-Ban collection!
Suzi Quatro was the most successful female artist of the entire Glam Rock period (Suzis style and music were not truly Glam but this was the era, which saw her shoot to stardom) and her influence on subsequent generations of female rock musicians are widely acknowledged. Its been well-documented that Chrissie Hynde and Joan Jett both drew inspiration from Suzi but so have many others, including Talking Heads Tina Weymouth, who was encouraged to learn to play bass by listening to Quatro albums and, more recently, KT Tunstall revealed that the cover photo of her 2007 album Drastic Fantastic was based on Suzis image.
In celebration of Suzis 50th year in the music business, the BBC will be hosting a special performance of her one-woman show, Unzipped, in London on Friday 26th September. It will be recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on Thursday 2nd October. On 29th September Cherry Red will also release the single The Girl From Detroit City on digital download only. This brand new song was recorded in 2013 and is exclusive to this compilation. Written and produced by Mike Chapman, the song speaks of Suzis early days in Detroit and her discovery by Mickie Most.
50 years on and Suzi Quatro has no intention of slowing down. Shes about to embark on another massive live tour and in 2015 she will finally publish her poetry in a book called Through My Eyes.
SUZI QUATRO
THE GIRL FROM DETROIT CITY (GLAMBOX150)
CHERRY RED RECORDS
20TH OCTOBER 2014
