Born in into a musical family from Detroit in 1950, this year Suzi Quatro celebrates an astounding 62 years in rock’n’roll with a 10-date spring UK tour and a new album, Freedom. Her father, Art, was a jazz musician. By 13 she was lead chair in her school orchestra, specialising in piano and percussion. After seeing The Beatles on TV, elder sister Patti corralled Suzi and some friends into forming all-girl group The Pleasure Seekers in 1964.
“Everybody got real excited and picked an instrument, except for me,” Suzi recalls. “I said: ‘What am I playing?’ Patti said: ‘The bass.’ Thank god she did that, because it was my perfect instrument.”
