Suzi Quatro: The Teen Queen Of Europe Comes Home
Michael Gross, Circus, August 1974
IN 1971 SHE'D been nowhere a local bandleader in Detroit who was more a spectacle than a musician. Then she left America. When Suzi Quatro returned three years later with the push of worldwide stardom behind her and a sizzling LP named Suzi Quatro (on Bell Records), there was only one rock and roll stronghold in the world still unconquered: her own America.
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