Stumblin' In
Suzi Quatro (born Detroit, 1950) is mainly only known in the US from her role in
Happy Days as Fonzi's girlfriend, Leather Tuscadero. Legend has it, she got the role because the producer's teenage daughter had on her bedroom wall a poster of Suzi in her famous leather jumpsuit, and he thought "I need that girl in my show!"
In the UK, and Australia, Suzi Quatro is of course known for a string of rocking top 10 hits, beginning with "Can the can" in 1973. When new wave/punk hit the scene, you might have thought she'd found her natural home, but her management team had instead her team up with fellow Chinnichap traveller, Chris Norman of 'Smokie', for this number, which actually reached #4 in the Billboard charts in 1979, her only US chart success. It's a lovely number, but signalled the notorious 'change of direction' (which only really works if your name is David Bowie). The inevitable 'Greatest Hits' album appeared in 1980, and that pretty much was that for her career as a rockstar, though a TV career, with appearances in 'Minder', 'Dempsey & Makepeace' etc., were to follow.
Anyhow, she's still rocking like a good'un at the
Bassment, Chelmsford. Last time I saw her (2015!), she was guesting with
Cherrie Currie (Runaways) at the Underworld, Camden
I'd have loved to have done this as a duet, but time, again and alas, was against me.
p.s.. it's taken over an hour to submit this post. I kept getting ***forbidden. Dangerous network*** error messages. In the end, I had to log out of my own broadband and into a local BT-Wifi hotspot to get here.