Suzi Quatro back in business with album, tour abroad

Suzi Quatro enjoyed hits like ‘Can The Can’, ‘48 Crash’, ‘Devil Gate Drive’, ‘If You Can`t Give Me Love’, ‘She`s In Love With You’ and ‘Stumblin In' that made her a visible presence in the 1970s. And the American rock vocalist isn't thinking of stopping. “I’ll retire when I go onstage, shake my ass, and there is silence,” she says, fully aware of the fact that that moment is still a long way off." 

On new album No Control, due March 29 via SPV/Steamhammer (formats: CD DigiPak, 2LP Gatefold, download and stream), she presents 11 new songs (plus two bonus tracks). The majority of the material consists of collaborations with her son from her first marriage, Richard Tuckey.

Suzi explains: “This was our first attempt at writing and recording something together. The creative progress began with ‘Don’t Do Me Wrong’. And, through this unusually beautiful English summer of 2018, we sat outside, acoustic bass, acoustic guitar, iPad recording app, and lots of paper, throwing ideas back and forth.” 

‘No Soul/No Control’, the first single to be released, features the message “Don`t let go of yourself for anyone”. Says Suzi: “This is my personal mantra. All you have in this world is you.” Remembering the conception of the number, she says: “We were busy as hell, buried in the songs. Richard had a new idea and showed me. It was very unusual and I liked it. A very basic guitar and drum track was put down for me to work on the melody and lyric. I went into the living area of the studio and about 15 minutes later, it was done. It flew out of its own accord, as the best songs do.”

With ‘Macho Man, it is "a no-brainer that this is an opening live song. You cannot help headbanging to it, it just grabs you”, while ‘I Can Teach You To Fly’ is “a definite throwback to the Sixties”, ‘Easy Pickings’ has a riff she's been playing on acoustic guitar "forever, at least the last 10 years. Then all of a sudden, it became a song”. ‘Love Isn’t Fair’ emanated from "sitting in our Hamburg home. I wanted to create a Blondie-meets-Mavericks song, and I think I accomplished that”.

‘Strings’ is “all about the strings that tie our lives together. Great riff. I drove everyone mad singing nonstop in this weird voice ‘Strings’. I couldn’t get it out of my head, and – hallelujah – it came out in the recording exactly as I’d imagined.”

For the past five decades, Quatro “never stopped releasing through the years. Back To The Drive in 2006, In The Spotlight in 2011, Quatro, Scott & Powell in 2016. These albums were thought about and planned out in great detail. I am proud of all three releases, very proud. But my new album No Control is its own animal.”

Track listing:

CD:

1. No Soul/No Control
2. Going Home
3. Strings
4. Love Isn't Fair
5. Macho Man
6 .Easy Pickings
7. Bass Line
8. Don't Do Me Wrong
9. Heavy Duty
10. I Can Teach You To Fly
11 Going Down Blues

World Tour dates:

Australia
16.02. AUS-Barossa Valley - Seppeltsfield Wines
17.02. AUS-Hobart - Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens
23.02. AUS-Bendigo - Bendigo Racecourse
24.02. AUS-Canberra - Stage 88 Commonwealth Park
02.03. AUS-Wodonga - Gateway Lakes
03.03. AUS-Kiama - Kiama Showground
09.03. AUS-Kariong - Mount Penang Parklands
10.03. AUS-Jacobs Well - Harrigans Drift Inn
16.03. AUS-Port Macquarie - Westport Park
19.-26.10 AUS-Sydney - Sydney Cruise "Rock The Boat "
27.10. AUS-Perth - Regal Theatre
30.10. AUS-Rockhamton - West End Hotel Arena
01.11. AUS-Gold Coast - The Star Theatre
04.11. AUS-Melbourne - Palais Theatre
06.11. AUS-Newcastle - Entertainment Centre
08.11. AUS-Sydney - Enmore Theatre

UK

04.04. UK-Manchester - O2 Apollo
05.04. UK-Leeds - First Direct Arena
06.04. UK-Cardiff - Motorpoint Arena
07.04. UK-Brighton - Brighton Centre
09.04. UK-Newcastle - Metro Radio Arena
10.04. UK-Nottingham - Motorpoint Arena
11.04. UK-London - The SSE Arena
12.04. UK-Birmingham - Genting Arena
13.04. UK-Liverpool - Echo Arena
14.04. UK-Bournemouth - BIC

Germany

24.04. DE-Berlin - Friedrichstadt Palast
30.04. DE-Schopfheim - Stadthalle
06.05. DE-Hamburg - Laeiszhalle
11.05. DE-Bremen - Metropol Theater
12.05. DE-Neuruppin - Kultur-Kirche
14.05. DE-Rostock - Stadthalle
15.05. DE-Hannover - Theater am Aegi
29.05. DE-Munich - Circus Krone
30.05. DE-Frankfurt - Alte Oper
30.08. DE-Plauen - Parktheater
31.08. DE-Thale - Bergtheater
01.09. DE-Kranichfeld - Freilichtbühne Niederburg
22.09. DE-Leipzig - Gewandhaus
28.09. DE-Dortmund - Westfallenhalle 3A
01.10. DE-Reutlingen - Stadthalle
02.10. DE-Kassel - Stadthalle
04.10. DE-Wuppertal - Stadthalle
05.10. DE-Osnabrück - Osnabrückhalle
07.12. DE-Heilbronn - Harmonie
13.12. DE-Dresden - Kulturpalast
14.12. DE-Jena - Sparkassen Arena
15.12. DE-Nürnberg - Löwensaal

Europe

22.03. SLO-Trencin - Sportova Hala
23.03. SLO-Bratislava - Istropolis
24.03. CZ-Olomouc - Clarion Congress Hotel
27.07. CH-Fahrwangen - Open Air
14.09. DK- Knebel - Fuglsocentret