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The great thing about musical legends is that they often don\u2019t see themselves that way \u2013 Suzi Quatro<\/a>, for instance, might be aware of her cultural impact and status, but her pride usually comes with a healthy dose of humble gratitude, too.<\/p>\n That said, as one of the first female bassists to shatter the glass ceiling, Quatro knows full well that rising to the top comes with a hefty amount of challenges and setbacks, because after all, one of the most startling facts about Quatro\u2019s journey was the intense sexism she faced along the way, not just the media discourse, but with the physical experiences she endured on her path to becoming a major name in her own right.<\/p>\n One of which was how chaotic and destructive her early audiences were, many of whom were so attuned to animalistic and misogynistic spaces that seeing someone like Quatro on stage felt like a direct insult to their communities. Quatro has discussed this many times, specifically the moments when she\u2019d leave the stage infuriated and covered in spit, but this doesn\u2019t remove from how absurd it still seems, or how much these experiences stemmed from something she never really thought about herself to begin with.<\/p>\n After all, growing up, Quatro\u2019s idols were mainly male musicians, not because she preferred them, but because she simply didn\u2019t think about it, or about her place among them, for that matter. She didn\u2019t go looking for female influences because she didn\u2019t think it was an issue that she wasn\u2019t a man, and she didn\u2019t care that that boundary even existed anyway. <\/p>\n She also barely considered the fact that she would find it more difficult to gain respect in the same spaces as many of her male peers. For instance, Quatro\u2019s love for Elvis Presley is no secret<\/a>, and she even poked fun at that fact herself following the release of her EP Uncovered when she explained that she avoided Presley covers because \u201ceverybody knows I\u2019m an Elvis freak\u201d.<\/p>\n But beyond his impact on her music and stage presence, Presley also inspired that familiar sense of boundary-shattering defiance that Quatro became known for, a trait that went hand-in-hand with her devil-may-care image, which at one point was inextricably linked to her iconic leather jumpsuit. <\/p>\n Quatro had first become endared to Presley when she watched his performance on The Ed Sullivan Show. She didn\u2019t think about her own path all that deeply at that point or \u201cthe fact that I was a girl\u201d; she just remembers thinking, \u201cI\u2019m gonna do that.\u201d Then, at around 18, when she\u2019d already been on the road for a number of years, she came across Presley\u2019s 1968 Comeback Special.<\/p>\n Clad head-to-toe in leather, Presley inspired countless others to venture out and buy their very own leather jackets, including Quatro, who set off on a clear path to her very own version of that getup in 1973, when the leather jumpsuit emerged during the explosion of her career-defining hit, \u2018Can the Can\u2019. <\/p>\n