Suzi Quatro - Self-titled Album (1973) [Remastered Reissue 2011 with Bonus tracks] RESTORED

Digitally remastered and expanded edition of the Glam queen's 1973 debut album including eight bonus tracks. Booklet contains original LP artwork, detailed liner notes by Phil Hendriks and loads of rare European picture sleeves. Suzi has sold over 50 million records during her career and this is the album that started it all!

As glam rock debut albums go, you'll have to search a long way to find one that outclasses Suzi Quatro's opening shot. Though her fame and, of course, her hit singles thus far were based around songwriters Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman's guileless ability to crank out the classics, away from the glare of TV and radio play the pair allowed Quatro and partner Len Tuckey full rein. The result was an album of several very distinct parts, inextricably linked by the sheer power of the Quatro personality. The heart of Suzi Quatro lies in the band's choice of covers. Harking back to Quatro's years in Detroit clubland, there's a Slade-meets-Stonesy grind through "I Wanna Be Your Man", a raucous blast through "All Shook Up", and, restating the song's claim to be the best rock & roller any Briton ever wrote, Johnny Kidd's "Shaking All Over", garageland sexuality oozing out from every pore. Chinnichap's "Primitive Love", one of the finest songs that the duo ever left unnoticed on an LP, then echoes that same intent, seething percussion and unearthly crowd sounds building around a jungle chant that reduces Quatro's characteristic cries to a breathy growl that is pure animal seduction. Of Quatro/Tuckey's own contributions, "Glycerine Queen" (already familiar from a B-side) and "Shine My Machine" are the most in character, straightforward rockers bolstered by the band's already trademark roiling rhythm. "Skin Tight Skin", on the other hand, is the most adventurous, bucking the formula in favor of a slow swing and a vocal that is straight out of West Side Story. Suzi Quatro remains one of the most nakedly sexual albums of the entire glam rock epoch – and one of the hottest debuts of the decade.

~ Dave Thompson, all media guide

Tracklist:

01. 48 Crash
02. Glycerine Queen
03. Shine My Machine
04. Official Suburbian Superman
05. I Wanna Be Your Man
06. Primitive Love
07. All Shook Up
08. Sticks And Stones
09. Skin Tight Skin
10. Get Back Mamma
11. Rockin' Moonbeam
12. Shakin' All Over
13. Rolling Stone [Reissue Bonus track]
14. Brain Confusion (For All The Lonely People) [Reissue Bonus track]
15. Can The Can [Reissue Bonus track]
16. Ain't Ya Somethin' Honey [Reissue Bonus track]
17. Little Bitch Blue [Reissue Bonus track]
18. Daytona Demon [Reissue Bonus track]
19. Roman Fingers [Reissue Bonus track]
20. Ain't Got No Home [Reissue Bonus track]


Original Album Produced by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn
Recorded at Audio International Studios, London. Engineered by Pete Coleman.

• Suzi Quatro - bass and lead vocals
• Len Tuckey - guitar, slide guitar and backing vocals
• Alastair McKenzie - electric piano, grand piano, mellotron and backing vocals
• Dave Neal - drums and backing vocals

Original Release Date: October 1973
Remastered CD Re-Released: March 21, 2011
Label: 7T's Records, U.K.
Catalog No.: GLAM CD 118