{"id":431636,"date":"2026-02-18T04:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T04:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/431636\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T04:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T04:10:10","slug":"the-tour-that-changed-suzi-quatros-life-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/431636\/","title":{"rendered":"The tour that changed Suzi Quatro’s life forever"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Suzi<\/p>\n

(Credits: Far Out \/ AVRO)<\/p>\n

Wed 18 February 2026 0:00, UK <\/p>\n

When you\u2019re a musical pioneer like Suzi Quatro<\/a>, where do you even begin to draw inspiration from? <\/p>\n

You\u2019ll struggle to find a female rocker in the modern age who hasn\u2019t, in some way, shape or form, been influenced by Quatro \u2013 mot that men aren\u2019t also inspired by her, as her music speaks for itself<\/a>, but the fact that she managed to establish herself as a rock pioneer in what was a heavily male-dominated industry meant she became the blueprint for a lot of budding musicians out there keen to do something similar. <\/p>\n

She was the first to do a great deal, and it begs the question: What inspires you when what you make is so individual? Well, in the case of Quatro, musical loves aside, it was her father. He was the man who bought the would-be rocker her first bass, and this started a chain reaction that would change everything.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cMy father gave me my first bass. It\u2019s ridiculous: a 1957 Fender Precision, gold scratch plate, sunburst finish, stripe up the back of the neck and an original Fender Bassman amp. I mean, that just doesn\u2019t happen!\u201d she said. \u201cI still have the bass, it hangs on the wall. The amp, I don\u2019t know what happened to that. But I won\u2019t take the bass out on the road anymore because it\u2019s too valuable.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Her father didn\u2019t just buy bass guitars, though; he also taught her about the degree of professionalism needed to make it in music. When Quatro went out on the road, despite the rock-infused music and rockstar aesthetic, she was always pretty professional. It means there is a lack of rock \u2018n\u2019 roll tour stories, but in her professionalism, she had longevity and was taken seriously as an artist. <\/p>\n

\"Suzi<\/a>(Credits: Stefan Brending)<\/p>\n

When Quatro was asked if she had any wild stories about life on the road, she replied, \u201cNo, because that\u2019s not who I am,\u201d she continued. \u201cYou know, I\u2019ve been a professional about what I do. I don\u2019t have to live the rock and roll image off the stage; I keep it on the stage. My Dad taught me that. I\u2019m a professional.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Of course, while Quatro might have resisted the rock \u2018n\u2019 roll lifestyle<\/a> somewhat, this didn\u2019t mean she was impervious to the regular side effects that come with touring. The self-destructive behaviour may have been swerved, but when you\u2019re spending time in close confines with like-minded people, feelings are often going to develop, and that\u2019s exactly what happened with her. <\/p>\n

When she came over to the UK, it took some time to round up the musicians, but once she had her band together, she went out on the road with Thin Lizzy and Slade. This is a period of her life that she remembers very fondly, as it gave her a chance to meet other great musicians, play her original material on stage in front of different audiences, and generally experience what it was like to tour. <\/p>\n

\u201cI joined that tour \u2013 it was Slade and Thin Lizzy and me at the beginning,\u201d she said. \u201cSo, I wasn\u2019t famous yet, but I had 20 minutes at the beginning of the show, and that was great. I did all my own original material. I became good friends with everybody.\u201d <\/p>\n

The main portion of the tour that really changed her life, though, was meeting her guitar player. As previously said, in close confines, like-minded people, the shared euphoria of playing music together, often band members wind up falling for one another, and that\u2019s exactly what happened with Quatro. However, this wasn\u2019t just an on-the-road fling; her life changed as the two wound up getting married and staying together for 20 years. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d hired my English band, and I fell in love with my guitar player, and he was my husband for 20 years,\u201d she said, concluding, \u201cWe had two kids together, and he was my guitar player for 20 years.\u201d Who says that rock \u2018n\u2019 roll and love can\u2019t co-exist?<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credits: Far Out \/ AVRO) Wed 18 February 2026 0:00, UK When you\u2019re a musical pioneer like Suzi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,157915,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-431636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-suzi-quatro","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}