Life After Glam (part 2)

Roy Wood & Wizzard: Indiana Rainbow (a-side) released in 1976 this did not chart, a sign of things to come for ex glam rock artists.

Suzi Quatro: She's In Love With You (a-side) released in 1978 this ChinniChap song reached #11 but was her last big hit.

Mud: L, L, Lucy (a-side) released in 1975, reaching #10. Mud had a few more moderate hits, but then they too slipped into semi obscurity.










Roy Wood: Indiana Rainbow

Suzi Quatro: She's In Love With You

Mud: L L Lucy

Suzi Q's Glam Rock Jukebox

Glam Rock Mix Vol 3

20th Century Boy

Gudbuy T' Jane

Wig Wam Bam

Drive In Saturday

The Cat Crept In

Rock N Roll part 1

The Golden Age of Rock N Roll

Can the Can

Juke Box Jive

Mr Soft

Dancing (on a Saturday Night)

Rock and Roll Winter

Rubber Bullets

All Because of You

Streetlife

Mix by Stardust Kid 2011

Suzi Q's Glam Rock Jukebox

Glam Rock Mix vol 2

Get It On

Hell Raiser

Dyna-Mite

Cum On Feel The Noize

Always Yours

Devil Gate Drive

Killer Queen

Lets Get Together Again

Rebel Rebel

Shang A Lang

See My Baby Jive

Metal Guru

Ballroom Blitz

Mix by Stardust Kid 2011

Suzi Q's Glam Rock Jukebox

This is the 100th post, so in celebration I present -

Glam Rock Mix vol 1

Blockbuster

Jean Genie

The Groover

Tiger Feet

48 Crash

Crazy Horses

Rock On

Bangin Man

I Love You Love Me Love

Angel Fingers

Ziggy Stardust

All The Way From Memphis

Schools Out

My Coo Ca Choo

Sugar Baby Love

Mix by Stardust Kid 2011

Suzi Quatro: The Wild One (album track), Sweet: Fox on the Run (album track)

Sometimes a song can take on a whole new sound and personality just by a little bit of re-styling and re-mixing. A once lacklustre album track can be turned into a big and bold 45 RPM release.

Here are two good examples of that. These are the original versions of the respective songs; note how different they are from the ones that were eventually released.
 

The original post for ‘The Wild One’ can be found here. 

The production on the single version is a lot brighter, and the original version has a more prominent male backing vocal.
 

This version of ‘Fox on the Run’ can be found on the “Desolation Boulevard” album from 1974 produced by Chinnichap. In 1975, Sweet went back into the studio to re-arrange and record a more pop-oriented version of the track.
 
It was Sweet's first self-written and self produced single. The single reached #2 in the UK.
 

Suzi Quatro: The Wild One (album version)
Sweet: Fox on the Run (album version)

Suzi Quatro: I Wanna Be Free (b-side)

"I Wanna Be Free" was the b-side to the 1974 single "Too Big" a moderate hit reaching # 14.

The song is written by Quatro and her then husband Len Tuckey.

Suzi Quatro - The Wild One (a-side)

Suzi Quatro seemingly emerged from nowhere in 1973, but she had been playing professionally for nearly a decade with The Pleasure Seekers a band consisting of her sisters Arlene and Patti. They were one of the few all girl garage bands to play their own instruments. In 1968 Arlene left the band to raise her kids (one of whom is actress Sherilyn Fenn) and was replaced by another sister Nancy.

In the early 70's British producer Mickie Most saw her play in her home town of Detroit and wanted to work with her as a solo act. Six months later she was on her way to London.

Her first single flopped, so she was hooked up to songwriters Chinnichap. The first 45 written for her Can the Can was a number one hit in the UK in 1973. Over the next few years the songwriting team would write about ten other British chart hits for her, including four top ten entries.

Quatro and her then husband Len Tuckey did write some of her material, though these were usually left for album tracks or B sides. A few of which might turn up on this blog at a later date.


She remained largely unknown in her native US until the late 70's when she had a semi-regular acting job in the sitcom Happy Days, as the guitar playing Leather Tuscadero. In 1979 she made the American top five with another Chinnichap song Stumblin In, a duet with Chris Norman of Smokie.

Suzi Quatro is unusual, in that she is probably the only woman to have success in the glam rock genre, and she did it by being more aggressive and masculine than her male contemporaries. Suzi Quatro showed that it was possible for a petite woman to play bass, sing and wear tight leather.

The Wild One is a 1974 a-side that reached number 7 in the UK singles chart, and was written by Chinnichap. It is one of her lesser known singles but one of my favourites.