Suzi Quatro - The Girl From Detroit City (4 CD, 2014/FLAC)

 

The 82 tracks in the set span the whole of Suzi Quatro's 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 Suzi's covers of Goldfrapp's Strict Machine and Rhianna's Breaking Dishes plus a Chapman number, A Girl Like Me, which he wrote especially for her.The boxset also contains the new single The Girl From Detroit City and the special tribute cover version recently performed on the Red Hot Summer Tour 2018 of Does Your Mother Know originally by ABBA.

 

Suzi Quatro - The Devil In Me [2021]

 Making a seismic impact in the 70s on this side of the Atlantic by combining the slam-dunk chart-toppers Can The Can and Devil Gate Drive – as well as Top 10 smashes 48 Crash, The Wild One and If You Can’t Give Me Love – with the era-defining imagery of low-slung bass guitar and leather catsuits, Suzi Quatro proved that rock’n’roll wasn’t just the preserve of excitable lads and their dads, as she also inspired multiple teens of her own gender. 

And yet, for all that, if her latest album The Devil In Me proves anything it’s that you can take Suzi Quatro out of Detroit, but you’ll never take Detroit out of Suzi. With a legacy that includes the MC5, The Stooges, the Amboy Dukes and others, the Motor City has always rocked harder and louder than most.