“When the session was over, Mickie said, ‘Nope, Peter can’t be in your band. There’s only going to be one star, and that’s you’”: Suzi Quatro reveals Peter Frampton nearly joined her band – but was rejected by her producer

Left–Suzi Quatro performs on stage at Hammersmith Odeon on November 2nd, 1978 in London, England; Right–English singer-songwriter Peter Frampton performing at Wembley Empire Pool, London, October 1976.

There was a time when Peter Frampton very nearly joined Suzi Quatro’s band. In September 1971, Quatro packed her suitcase and headed to England, chasing the promise of famed record producer Mickie Most to make her a star.

It took more or less a year of trial and error for the formula to work out, but eventually the two settled on a song – Rolling Stone – that Quatro had written with Hot Chocolate’s Errol Brown.