Suzi Quatro interview: “I’m doing a two-hour show with a six-and-a-half-minute bass solo” [Video]

Renaissance Detroit rocker Suzi Quatro could never be accused of freewheeling. Last year she delivered the album Face To Face (her well-received collaboration with KT Tunstall), right now she’s in the midst of an ongoing tour, and she’s already written the bulk of her eighteenth studio album. 

From teenage 60s garage band The Pleasure Seekers, through hit-making leather-clad 70s glam icon, to tireless elder stateswoman, Quatro has proved herself uncommonly adept as a TV and West End musical theatre actor, radio broadcaster, poet and novelist. You name it, Suzi’s done it. But 60 years in the rock business?

Surely some mistake? 

Everybody looks at me and goes: “How long?’ I turned seventy-four on June third. I started at fourteen and, because I come from a musical family, I’d already been schooled in classical piano and percussion when we started the band. Nobody wanted the bass, so I was given it, which was fine …