Suzi Quatro has insisted that she was “never a sex, drugs and rock and roll girl” at the height of her fame.
The 75-year-old music icon came to global prominence in the 1970s with hits like Devil Gate Drive and 48 Crash but admitted as she gears up for another tour that she always knew that she was going into a “profession” above all ese.
She told The Sunday Express’ Sunday magazine: “She told The Daily Express’ Sunday Magazine: “I’m celebrating 62 years in the business next year. It’s a big tour across the UK – an entertaining two-hour rock and roll show with all the hits and a few surprises. I play the piano, drums and a seven-minute bass solo… I take you on a journey through my life.
“I’m the rehearsal queen. I rehearse as if it was a live show, running around. If I’m not working, then I make sure I’m going to the gym. It means on stage, I still have that energy.
“I’ve partied, had the odd room wreck but I was never a sex, drugs and rock and roll girl. I was brought up in a musical family. My dad told me aged 15, ‘Suzi, you’ve found what you want to do in life. This is a profession. If there’s 10 people or 10,000 in the audience, everyone’s paid to
see you, and you owe them .’That’s been embedded in me.”
Meanwhile, the Stumblin’ In hitmaker admitted that she will “take to [her] grave” that she attained the sort of fame when she did at a time when it was all a male-dominated indisutry, and insisted that she did it all without “stripping off” for her audience.
She added: I’ll take to my grave that I was the first female rock musician to have worldwide success. There are many more female musicians today, but they tend to be too influenced by male opinion. I wore a jumpsuit, but I showed no flesh. You don’t have to strip off to be sexy.”