THEN..ooh!
NOW.... wow!

SUZIE QUATRO UNZIPPED.
Suzie who? I bet not many Malaysian know her. When I first learn from WWW that she had written a book about herself, I went all over town searching for it. The guys at MPH, Popular and Border never heard of her. Well I am not surprised . I fell in love with Suzie ( I mean her song) way back in 1975. That long huh! Yeah! I was sporting my shoulder length hair then and did many things that I don’t even dare to write here. In case my children may think that their dad had gone crazy. That was in Sydney, Australia.. He he he ..So many big and little secret safely tucked away down under. Fortunately I have a brother who is a pilot with our national airlines. So he bought me the book on his subsequent trip to London.

THE REVIEW.

Wait! Not so fast. I don’t expect Suzie to write after all she left school at 14 to pursue her singing career. She dropped out from school. She formed an all female band and it was quite popular in the 60s. In this book she tell all, bare all, I guess that is what she meant by ‘unzipped’. Despite owning LPs and CDs and fancying her music I never knew the kind of life she had gone through. Like her eldest sister was born out of wedlock, no big deal but her parent were from strict Italian Catholic upbringing. That was something. She was on the dope. I always thought she was cool like Marie Osmond. She admitted losing her virginity at 18. Even that was revealed in details (ha ha you want to read the book now)…since you can’t get the book here let me tease you… “we undressed, fell on to the bed and made love. It was like floating in the sea of pleasure. I wasn’t a virgin anymore……he touched my mind, my heart, possessed my soul.. and I never gave myself so completely to anyone ever again". Of course you are virgin only once, Suzy and what you do with it, is none of my concern.

The music scene was in UK at that time when the Beatles started making their mark. So off to London she went. It took her another two years before she had her first hit. That too when she almost gave up and was about to return to US, broke. That is what I called perseverance and it pays in the end.

She started her world tour. She was very popular in Australia and Japan. She is the only lady rock singer who played the bass guitar at the same time. She wrote most of her song based on what she had gone through in her life. She got married and started raising her family as a rocking mother. Even when she is on tour she took her family along. That is something that I didn’t know. How difficult that was and her marriage started to suffer. She decided to separate from the husband and raised the kid by herself. She remarried much later.

What can be learned from her is that you will succeed in life if you tried very hard. Nothing come easy in life. She is a grandmother now and still rocking away. When asked when she will put her guitar down. She replied the day when I wriggle my bum to the audience and I only hear silence. That is a long way to go man as she still looked very sexy in her leather jacket. Anyway that is coming from one her ardent fan..me.

It is a book that all Suzie Quatro fan must have, not because of sophisticated language it was written but because how simply it was written from the heart.