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I turned 70 on June 3rd, 2020, and my bucket list looms large.
Doing a lyric book was always on that list so, here it is. Through
my Words, is an illustrated informative diary of my life, told
through the lyrics of my songs. Creation has always been my
salvation. Enjoy! -Suzi Quatro
There is no denying that the last couple of years have been tough
for all of us. Life has changed drastically due to the Covid 19
pandemic, and this includes rock icons. Suzi Quatro has never had a
regular job. Being a rock and roll musician is what she has been
doing her whole life. Then suddenly, everything changed, and
instead of constantly being on tour, she found herself at home.
Suzi is never one to sit around idling her time and the pandemic
produced an album that has done very well indeed. It has also
produced her third hardcover coffee table book, sharing her
thoughts as the days and the weeks passed. Full to the brim with
private photographs in colour, Suzi lets us in to her life in this
window of time when the world changed. Her thoughts about the state
of life as she sees it is meant as an inspiration to us all. "The
third in my series of illustrated coffee table books, 1 year in
lockdown,1 year on this roller coaster called life, 1 year where
you can go through every single emotion you have in 5 minutes.
Sometimes you smile, sometimes you cry, many times you just hit the
wall. I faithfully did my instagram posts every morning sharing my
feelings and tribulations, trying to lift people's spirits. It
helps to share. It helps to know you're not alone. Enjoy my moods!
( I blame being a Gemini!!) Suzi Quatro"
"I was the first rock'n'roll chick, lead singer, serious bass
player, kicking ass with the guys in the band, and beating them at
their own game" But when the lights go down and the leather catsuit
comes off, there's another side of Suzi Quatro that only her
closest friends know - a sensitive, soul-searching and
philosophical woman who's been pouring her heart out in poetry
since she was seven years old. Only no one's had the chance to read
it...until now Through My Eyes is Suzi Quatro's first collection of
poetry. It is a collection that is candid, thought-provoking,
revealing and sometimes shocking. If you thought being an
international rock star was all glamour and good times, Through My
Eyes will take you on a rock'n'rollercoaster of a jouney through a
life bedeviled by men who were often unsuitable, unspeakable or
unattainable...not that Suzi was going to take any of that lying
down! The poems reveal some of Suzi's deepest and most intimate
feelings. They are predominantly about love, from the optimism and
exuberance of a young singer about to launch her solo career, to
the acrimony and disillusionment relating to various relationships
- real, imaginary or longed for - that punctuated her subsequent
life. Suzi has also included notes that reveal where she was and
what she was doing at the time she was writing. Taking things on a
stage from her autobiography, Unzipped, this is rhyme...with a
reason!
In this, the second volume of poetry and reminiscences, rock icon
Suzi Quatro bares her soul through her poetry and adding many
personal stories and images to make this book a very up close and
personal look into her art and her life. Suzi Quatro is recognised
as the first in a long line of female rock stars to be inspired by
her. Here in her own words: A little story that seems appropriate
to share with you along with the publication of my second offering
of poems: My documentary, SUZI Q, was released worldwide at the end
of 2019, and was a big success. I insisted on it being the truth,
the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help me God! And,
even though I had scissors, because after all, it is my life, I
stopped myself cutting out what I lovingly refer to as 'cringe'
moments. And thank goodness, because they are the best bits in the
film. So, at the premier in London's Regents Theatre, I was booked
to appear on stage and do a Q & A at the end of the film. Me
being me, I really wanted to be inside and watch it on the big
screen with the audience, so I snuck in once the lights went down
and watched, of course spotted by a couple of of audience members
who I immediately said SHHHH to. I watched, feeling humbled,
uncomfortable, honoured, every emotion you can think of. But the
biggest surprise was watching all the other famous rock n roll
women musicians talk so glowingly about me. All of them saying "if
it wasn't for me, they would not have even considered picking up an
instrument." I found myself crying a river!!! Next day, I called my
good friend Cherie Currie, and relayed this story to her. Me:
Cherie, I have just realised something Her: what's that? Me: by
doing what I did, I gave women all over the world permission to be
different! ... Long pause ... Her: And you just got that?!" -Suzi
Quatro
Alison Meridith Heart is a different kind of female: not masculine,
not feminine, but somewhere right in between, a 'one off'. She
thinks like a man but has the emotions of a woman - a deadly
combination. Long brown hair, hazel eyes, lanky, t-shirted, blue
jeaned, cowboy booted, and a guitar player in a band of guys who
call themselves The Rough Edges - a band she would quickly surpass
in talent. Alison takes us through her life from Cleveland, to New
York, to London, to Miami, from marriage to affair, from great
happiness to great tragedy. It is a journey through the music
business, and a journey through her heart - too much heart if the
truth be known. Follow her through the emotional upheaval her life
represents. She is a stranger in her own body, who unwittingly
discovers 'why' she has always felt this way. The Hurricane blows
in...'and nothing will ever be the same again'.
You've seen Suzi Q, the feature documentary about legendary 70s
rocker Suzi Quatro: now read Unzipped, the story of how Little
Susie from Detroit grew up to become an international superstar
musician - as told by the glam rock sensation herself. The glam
rock icon behind such hits as 'Can the Can', 'Devil Gate Drive' and
'Your Mamma Won't Like Me' has sold over 50 million records
worldwide and has worked, partied and rocked out with legendary
figures such as Noddy Holder, Alice Cooper and Iggy Pop. Suzi
Quatro's transformation from girl to glam rocker was fuelled by
huge talent, determination, hard work and a fabulous sense of
humour, but it wasn't easy. In Unzipped, Quatro tells her story of
life behind the scenes and in the thick of it as one of the first
major break-out female rock bassists. Later, she went on to
Hollywood to join the cast of Happy Days, juggling her acting and
music career with a turbulent personal life and constant touring
around the world. Through it all, she never lost her passion to
perform or her sense of adventure. Suzi Quatro remembers it all in
this brilliantly personal and funny book, a thrilling account of a
life lived going hell for leather.
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