WEBVTT 00:00:01.550 --> 00:00:05.990 And now here they are, Nick and Sue on Chatterbox. 00:00:06.150 --> 00:00:09.470 When the stars talk, they talk to Nick and Sue. 00:00:46.829 --> 00:00:49.289 to the Chatterbox Redux podcast with Nick and 00:00:49.289 --> 00:00:52.789 Sue. On this edition, our special guest is Susie 00:00:52.789 --> 00:01:39.969 Quattro. Shatterbox giving you all you need to 00:01:39.969 --> 00:02:04.500 know about music Now in chatterbox UK, we're 00:02:04.500 --> 00:02:06.819 just lucky enough to welcome back Suzy Quattro 00:02:06.819 --> 00:02:10.620 Suzy. Hi welcome. How are you Suzy? I am in promotion 00:02:10.620 --> 00:02:15.800 hell at the moment Yeah, as much as I I like 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:17.900 to communicate and talk about whatever I'm working 00:02:17.900 --> 00:02:23.460 on Okay I believe it was Germany yesterday and 00:02:23.460 --> 00:02:26.460 you flew back to appear in this yet quite and 00:02:26.460 --> 00:02:31.240 you got a full day today I know after I say I've 00:02:31.240 --> 00:02:33.740 got a full day today than tomorrow. I'm doing 00:02:33.740 --> 00:02:36.419 something else in the evening. They got the Jeremy 00:02:36.419 --> 00:02:39.580 Jeremy Vine show the next morning. Cracker Don. 00:02:40.020 --> 00:02:42.379 It's just it's just been on gigs and my feet 00:02:42.379 --> 00:02:46.580 don't touch the ground. June, July, August. I'm 00:02:46.580 --> 00:02:49.159 flying and gigging, flying and gigging fly is 00:02:49.159 --> 00:02:53.180 crazy. And in October, I go back to Australia 00:02:53.180 --> 00:02:58.780 for my forty first tour. Wow in Austria in Australia. 00:02:58.780 --> 00:03:03.819 I hold the record. I hold the record That's brilliant 00:03:03.819 --> 00:03:06.460 Okay, we could always mention what you're doing 00:03:06.460 --> 00:03:10.919 next towards the end but Okay, we have we're 00:03:10.919 --> 00:03:14.300 basically here to talk about say a new book that 00:03:14.300 --> 00:03:17.960 you brought out We've been chatting well going 00:03:17.960 --> 00:03:21.139 back. Yes. There we are grave undertakings a 00:03:21.139 --> 00:03:24.539 novel grave undertakings Well tell us about that 00:03:24.539 --> 00:03:27.060 it's better coming from you it's a collection 00:03:27.060 --> 00:03:29.439 of epitaphs but there's a lot more to it all 00:03:29.439 --> 00:03:35.139 yours. There is it started off as a child i was 00:03:35.139 --> 00:03:37.740 one of those and it's funny because since i've 00:03:37.740 --> 00:03:40.400 been doing these interviews so many people have 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:43.919 gone oh me too i found graveyards fascinating. 00:03:44.780 --> 00:03:47.560 I like i like wandering through them and reading 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:51.039 the tombstones and you know my imagination runs 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:53.000 right you know the ones that are crumbling and 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:55.439 the falling over and the ones that don't look 00:03:55.439 --> 00:03:57.879 tended to the ones that do look tended to and 00:03:57.879 --> 00:03:59.419 you make up stories in your head i wonder if 00:03:59.419 --> 00:04:03.340 they had kids and other so. Lifelong thing of 00:04:03.340 --> 00:04:05.699 mine wandering through graveyards so when i was 00:04:05.699 --> 00:04:09.099 in my twenties i was in england and i came up 00:04:09.099 --> 00:04:12.419 with this. Great title grave undertakings what 00:04:12.419 --> 00:04:17.779 a great title and i went. This can be. My hobby 00:04:17.779 --> 00:04:20.720 i can start asking all my famous people i know 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:23.560 what they would like on their tombstone. So that's 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:25.800 what i did and i did that for thirty five years 00:04:25.800 --> 00:04:29.339 so a lot of these. Graveyard inscriptions a lot 00:04:29.339 --> 00:04:31.240 than i hear anymore but they have to be given 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:34.680 to me but a lot of them are here so as i'm assembling 00:04:34.680 --> 00:04:38.810 the book. It's my second novel and my second 00:04:38.810 --> 00:04:42.029 published book. I'm sorry, my second novel and 00:04:42.029 --> 00:04:46.709 my seventh published book. And I was typing it 00:04:46.709 --> 00:04:48.889 out, typing up the quotes and all that and putting 00:04:48.889 --> 00:04:51.389 the information next to the names, what year 00:04:51.389 --> 00:04:53.069 they were born and if they were dead, what year 00:04:53.069 --> 00:04:57.910 they died. And then I thought, no, oh my God, 00:04:58.069 --> 00:05:02.620 no, this is a story. This is a now. Waiting to 00:05:02.620 --> 00:05:05.620 be written. So then my brain started to work 00:05:05.620 --> 00:05:09.740 and I'm very Very psychologically minded. I actually 00:05:09.740 --> 00:05:14.180 could have gone into that as a profession I'm 00:05:14.180 --> 00:05:17.259 good at it. I can I can I can work you out. I 00:05:17.259 --> 00:05:19.579 can help you it I've always been that way since 00:05:19.579 --> 00:05:22.879 the child. I want answers to everything So I 00:05:22.879 --> 00:05:26.639 thought okay, let's get six psychology students 00:05:26.639 --> 00:05:30.259 meeting up for a tutorial with an Austrian professor 00:05:30.519 --> 00:05:34.660 then I named them. Right. And once you named 00:05:34.660 --> 00:05:37.800 them, like a song, once a song has a name, you've 00:05:37.800 --> 00:05:41.240 got the song. So once I, once I named the characters, 00:05:41.500 --> 00:05:43.980 I had the characters. So then I made them all 00:05:43.980 --> 00:05:47.079 six completely different types, you know? So 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:50.269 out of 20 classes, With the austrian professor 00:05:50.269 --> 00:05:53.370 you go you go through their lives you go they 00:05:53.370 --> 00:05:57.170 discover stuff about themselves there's entanglements 00:05:57.170 --> 00:06:00.410 romantic involvements with some of them and you 00:06:00.410 --> 00:06:02.769 get their back stories you get their damage you 00:06:02.769 --> 00:06:06.230 get their baggage you get the triggers you get 00:06:06.230 --> 00:06:09.069 everything so right through their lives you go 00:06:09.069 --> 00:06:11.310 in these twenty classes and then i don't want 00:06:11.310 --> 00:06:14.569 to give it away but then at the end the payoff 00:06:14.569 --> 00:06:16.790 is you think it to because that's what it is 00:06:16.790 --> 00:06:20.480 you live your life. You live your life. And then 00:06:20.480 --> 00:06:22.620 after that, all was, we're all so important, 00:06:22.620 --> 00:06:25.379 aren't we? And then after that, you're six foot 00:06:25.379 --> 00:06:28.220 under with a few words on a gravestone. So the 00:06:28.220 --> 00:06:31.060 whole thing fascinated me. So the, this story 00:06:31.060 --> 00:06:33.920 gives you the reason why the ending is all the 00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:36.360 gravestones, because that is how we end, you 00:06:36.360 --> 00:06:40.199 know? And I was able to paint on this big wide 00:06:40.199 --> 00:06:43.180 canvas. I gave myself all my psychological ideas. 00:06:43.939 --> 00:06:46.800 And I actually had to be one of the students 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:49.720 because In the twenty classes you know you're 00:06:49.720 --> 00:06:51.560 talking serious stuff here that the professors 00:06:51.560 --> 00:06:56.180 teaching them. Psychology so if there was something 00:06:56.180 --> 00:06:58.300 i worked out what i wanted my twenty classes 00:06:58.300 --> 00:07:00.699 to cover and then i had to find out what those 00:07:00.699 --> 00:07:03.220 things were called that i was talking about cuz 00:07:03.220 --> 00:07:05.620 i'm not a professional psychiatrist at all so 00:07:05.620 --> 00:07:08.120 i had to go to school myself i had to google 00:07:08.120 --> 00:07:11.959 learn. Digest it and bring it out as a teacher 00:07:11.959 --> 00:07:14.620 bring it out as one of the students so you get 00:07:14.620 --> 00:07:19.790 real. Insight in this book and everybody that 00:07:19.790 --> 00:07:23.509 has read it I said the same thing but two different 00:07:23.509 --> 00:07:28.550 ways to me they go You really made me think or 00:07:28.550 --> 00:07:33.769 they go you've really made me question So he 00:07:33.769 --> 00:07:37.230 either way is fine Either way is fine. If you're 00:07:37.230 --> 00:07:38.750 questioning or you're just thinking whatever 00:07:38.750 --> 00:07:42.290 it's touched you. So this book is touching people 00:07:42.290 --> 00:07:48.209 Amazing I never I never expected The response 00:07:48.209 --> 00:07:50.089 I'm getting for this book. What are we say? I 00:07:50.089 --> 00:07:53.370 guess it's an unusual idea isn't it? It is different 00:07:53.370 --> 00:07:55.410 I mean, I'm sure there's something a bit with 00:07:55.410 --> 00:07:58.290 gravestones in but there's not anything that's 00:07:58.290 --> 00:08:01.819 taken it to the angle that you have And, of course, 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:06.399 we must also remember that you appearing on Top 00:08:06.399 --> 00:08:08.480 of the Pops was your first hit, which was number 00:08:08.480 --> 00:08:12.100 one here as well, 1973. So that was a lot of 00:08:12.100 --> 00:08:13.980 people you were bumping into on Top of the Pops 00:08:13.980 --> 00:08:17.279 from 1973 onwards, probably as you were getting 00:08:17.279 --> 00:08:20.540 known here as well. But the examples that have 00:08:20.540 --> 00:08:23.040 been sent, I'm not going to say the names, but 00:08:23.040 --> 00:08:25.600 it gives people a... These are all still with 00:08:25.600 --> 00:08:29.910 us. Alice Cooper, Sir Cliff Richard... nice little 00:08:29.910 --> 00:08:32.529 religious touch from him but it's what he you 00:08:32.529 --> 00:08:34.850 can imagine that's what it will have on his side 00:08:34.850 --> 00:08:38.830 and i trust you know what with cliff um there 00:08:38.830 --> 00:08:41.850 were a few there were some people that if they'd 00:08:41.850 --> 00:08:43.750 been maybe a little bit sick or something above 00:08:43.750 --> 00:08:46.250 us a few of them said to me i'd rather not tempt 00:08:46.250 --> 00:08:49.970 fate and i said absolutely fine but a few people 00:08:49.970 --> 00:08:54.029 uh leo sayer was one and cliff richard was one 00:08:54.029 --> 00:08:56.389 there were more but i can't remember cliff said 00:08:56.389 --> 00:09:00.350 can i have a few days okay he wanted time and 00:09:00.350 --> 00:09:02.789 when you read his quote he really did think about 00:09:02.789 --> 00:09:06.730 that and it's very it's very cliff isn't it yes 00:09:06.730 --> 00:09:08.610 definitely it's what people would expect yeah 00:09:08.610 --> 00:09:12.210 yeah and um go on i was going to say and it's 00:09:12.210 --> 00:09:14.909 probably now what he's probably updated his will 00:09:14.909 --> 00:09:18.009 that's probably what will go on it when no that's 00:09:18.009 --> 00:09:21.509 what what he said quite probably yeah i like 00:09:21.509 --> 00:09:26.330 mine you like yours um are you going to go or 00:09:26.429 --> 00:09:30.149 Yours is obviously in the book. Are you going 00:09:30.149 --> 00:09:32.350 to give us the little snippet of what yours says 00:09:32.350 --> 00:09:35.009 or people got to buy the book to find out? No, 00:09:35.029 --> 00:09:36.649 I'll tell them mine, but then they have to buy 00:09:36.649 --> 00:09:39.269 the book to find out what the story is. Because 00:09:39.269 --> 00:09:41.549 I'm a Gemini, so I get two sides. And if you 00:09:41.549 --> 00:09:43.509 know any German eyes or if you're our Gemini, 00:09:43.929 --> 00:09:46.470 you know that two sides is the absolute minimum. 00:09:47.870 --> 00:09:54.460 So one side says, now I get it. And the other 00:09:54.460 --> 00:09:57.960 side says, too many dreams, too little time. 00:09:59.460 --> 00:10:02.179 Well, it's funny to say that. Now, I've had mine, 00:10:02.259 --> 00:10:03.779 as soon as you look at me, so I've got to share 00:10:03.779 --> 00:10:06.120 it with you. It's something I've never even said 00:10:06.120 --> 00:10:09.279 on the live shows. But my one, out of interest, 00:10:09.500 --> 00:10:13.899 is it's what he would have wanted. Oh, interesting. 00:10:13.919 --> 00:10:16.200 Because everyone says that at Awake and everything 00:10:16.200 --> 00:10:18.019 else. And of course, it's not what anyone ever 00:10:18.019 --> 00:10:21.799 wanted. I've just heard it so many times. It's 00:10:21.799 --> 00:10:24.519 what he would have wanted. That's it. Interesting 00:10:24.519 --> 00:10:28.259 interesting yeah i've had some some people who 00:10:28.259 --> 00:10:30.659 i thought were gonna be funny with serious and 00:10:30.659 --> 00:10:33.940 vice versa. You know you never know you know 00:10:33.940 --> 00:10:36.100 some some people would so deep important people 00:10:36.100 --> 00:10:37.779 who i have a laugh with over dinner and they 00:10:37.779 --> 00:10:40.580 went they went down the distance. I'm trying 00:10:40.580 --> 00:10:42.879 to think i like brian bennett the drummer from 00:10:42.879 --> 00:10:45.759 the shadows he said he said if you want to make 00:10:45.759 --> 00:10:51.549 god laugh tell him your plans. But I'm not going 00:10:51.549 --> 00:10:53.870 to give everything away, but I'll tell you the 00:10:53.870 --> 00:10:57.909 funniest one. You can't beat this one. David 00:10:57.909 --> 00:11:01.990 Hamilton. Here lies David Hamilton, stiff at 00:11:01.990 --> 00:11:10.049 last. My husband said to me yesterday, just before 00:11:10.049 --> 00:11:14.889 I came home from Germany, he said, only you could 00:11:14.889 --> 00:11:18.820 write a book. Based on tombstones only you could 00:11:18.820 --> 00:11:20.799 do that. I said, yeah, but it's a story said 00:11:20.799 --> 00:11:23.460 but only you would think of that. Is that okay? 00:11:25.320 --> 00:11:27.500 Fine fine. This is Nick and Sue with Cheddar 00:11:27.500 --> 00:11:30.100 box giving you all you need to know about musical 00:11:30.100 --> 00:11:39.269 entertainment We've got to go and buy it, darling. 00:11:39.490 --> 00:11:41.629 It sounds very interesting. Don't you worry. 00:11:41.889 --> 00:11:45.990 We are. We'll even get the odd quote out. Just 00:11:45.990 --> 00:11:47.750 the odd one, because we want people... This is 00:11:47.750 --> 00:11:50.490 on our live shows, by the way, Susie. In fact, 00:11:50.570 --> 00:11:52.690 you've been on R &I, Radio Northie International. 00:11:52.769 --> 00:11:54.929 You did come on it in our early days of doing 00:11:54.929 --> 00:11:57.230 shows together. I remember one Sunday you came 00:11:57.230 --> 00:11:59.029 on and you were so generous with your time because 00:11:59.029 --> 00:12:01.570 you talked about the past, which you don't really 00:12:01.570 --> 00:12:04.590 like to do, but... It was so jealous of your 00:12:04.590 --> 00:12:06.370 time. We'll never forget it. So we have a few 00:12:06.370 --> 00:12:09.970 snippets. So yes, a few little tasters for our 00:12:09.970 --> 00:12:13.370 listeners. That would be wonderful. Susie, with 00:12:13.370 --> 00:12:17.629 this book, now we've said you've been collecting 00:12:17.629 --> 00:12:20.169 it and we've already established that you had 00:12:20.169 --> 00:12:24.330 your first number one here in 1973. There's quite 00:12:24.330 --> 00:12:26.529 a lot of years of collecting epitaphs. So there 00:12:26.529 --> 00:12:29.649 must, in my opinion, be quite a lot left over 00:12:29.649 --> 00:12:33.080 that you may be... Have perhaps you know where 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:34.840 i'm going with this i don't leave alone i always 00:12:34.840 --> 00:12:36.659 want to know what's next is there enough left 00:12:36.659 --> 00:12:41.580 over or will there be a second volume well i 00:12:41.580 --> 00:12:45.279 might collect again but but they're everybody 00:12:45.279 --> 00:12:47.220 who's again everybody who's read their book wants 00:12:47.220 --> 00:12:50.539 a sequel because they want to know what happens 00:12:50.539 --> 00:12:53.039 to these students after the story and say they 00:12:53.039 --> 00:12:55.240 because you get involved in the characters so 00:12:55.240 --> 00:12:58.740 there might there might be a reunion yeah I might 00:12:58.740 --> 00:13:00.740 be asking a few more people i know a lot of people 00:13:00.740 --> 00:13:05.600 so yeah. Oh you know i gotta mention i'm doing 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:08.960 a big big tour in april. It was just announced 00:13:08.960 --> 00:13:11.580 last week tickets on sale they're going amazing 00:13:11.580 --> 00:13:15.580 ten big shows in april in the uk in the uk yeah 00:13:15.580 --> 00:13:17.279 i'm getting i'm getting everywhere i'm going 00:13:17.279 --> 00:13:23.559 to. Glasgow gateshead manchester watford oxford 00:13:23.559 --> 00:13:27.360 south end london palladium bath birmingham and 00:13:27.360 --> 00:13:30.000 born with. and all all good shows all big shows 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:33.179 so that's that's great uh well the best well 00:13:33.179 --> 00:13:36.159 the best one nearest to i think london palladium 00:13:36.159 --> 00:13:37.440 would be the best because that's right in the 00:13:37.440 --> 00:13:39.480 center as well because sue doesn't like the tube 00:13:39.480 --> 00:13:40.960 but we can get to the london palladium without 00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:45.019 the tube um not a problem however uh is there 00:13:45.019 --> 00:13:48.019 any side of because we our nearest big city would 00:13:48.019 --> 00:13:50.559 be brighton any chance of anything being added 00:13:50.559 --> 00:13:54.210 on to that maybe Anything and the chance of 10 00:13:54.210 --> 00:13:57.149 dates so far is a lot like to be a few more. 00:13:57.230 --> 00:13:58.990 Could there be a bright and ending up there in 00:13:58.990 --> 00:14:02.590 the end? I don't know. I'm not doing it. So I 00:14:02.590 --> 00:14:07.629 do. I do what I'm told. Well, actually, that's 00:14:07.629 --> 00:14:10.990 a complete lie. My nose is growing as I speak. 00:14:11.090 --> 00:14:13.789 I don't do what I don't do what I'm told. I do 00:14:13.789 --> 00:14:19.509 take direction. And as Mickey Mouse said, always 00:14:19.509 --> 00:14:22.409 remember that he said nobody tells susie what 00:14:22.409 --> 00:14:27.370 to do you may suggest strongly i've heard that 00:14:27.370 --> 00:14:32.549 well listen the formula works doesn't it you're 00:14:32.549 --> 00:14:34.889 still here we go i'd like to mention music in 00:14:34.889 --> 00:14:37.169 a moment as well because yeah and i've got two 00:14:37.169 --> 00:14:38.850 things to me you got two things you want to ask 00:14:38.850 --> 00:14:41.409 susie okay nothing to mention and one question 00:14:41.409 --> 00:14:45.450 right okay okay um because i recall the last 00:14:45.450 --> 00:14:47.350 time we spoke and it was during the lockdown 00:14:47.350 --> 00:14:50.629 and you were having your album yes you know and 00:14:50.629 --> 00:14:52.470 i think what we did we spoke about the album 00:14:52.470 --> 00:14:54.610 and then the single one of the singles came off 00:14:54.610 --> 00:14:56.210 i think it was the first one and we spoke about 00:14:56.210 --> 00:14:59.370 that right i remember it's in my first week or 00:14:59.370 --> 00:15:02.029 two of ever using zoom and we lost half our time 00:15:02.029 --> 00:15:04.110 because it was all new to me and i was an idiot 00:15:04.110 --> 00:15:06.009 i thought you and i told you before we speak 00:15:06.009 --> 00:15:09.370 next time i will master zoom and i have now so 00:15:09.370 --> 00:15:12.289 it's all now you have Good. We got broken in 00:15:12.289 --> 00:15:14.529 very good, didn't we? We did. Oh, God, we did. 00:15:14.809 --> 00:15:16.529 So, talking about that, you were working with 00:15:16.529 --> 00:15:19.889 your son. He was co -writing and playing with 00:15:19.889 --> 00:15:22.350 you. How's that developed over the last half 00:15:22.350 --> 00:15:24.490 decade? I mean, we're five years... Well, yeah, 00:15:24.629 --> 00:15:28.029 we've had... One two three four projects out 00:15:28.029 --> 00:15:30.690 together they've all charted no control was the 00:15:30.690 --> 00:15:32.789 first time the devil in me was the second album 00:15:32.789 --> 00:15:36.590 then he produced uncovered my six track EP and 00:15:36.590 --> 00:15:38.669 he also and played and wrote with me and everything 00:15:38.669 --> 00:15:41.490 and then the face to face album that i did with 00:15:41.490 --> 00:15:45.389 katie he produced that and i'm now working on 00:15:45.389 --> 00:15:49.450 my next solo album which is producing. Writing 00:15:49.450 --> 00:15:53.940 with me and playing guitar. Definitely something 00:15:53.940 --> 00:15:55.879 natural in the gene pool. A bit like the Wilde 00:15:55.879 --> 00:15:59.919 family with Marty and Kim and that. It's a natural 00:15:59.919 --> 00:16:03.100 gene pool there, isn't it? Because your son sounds 00:16:03.100 --> 00:16:05.059 so spot on. It's not something you could sit 00:16:05.059 --> 00:16:07.120 him down one day and teach him. He's obviously 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:10.279 got it. He's got it completely. He came to me 00:16:10.279 --> 00:16:14.860 in 2019 and he'd been advanced since 14. And 00:16:14.860 --> 00:16:16.379 he just came to me out of the blue and he said, 00:16:16.399 --> 00:16:19.820 Mum, I need to write some songs with you now. 00:16:19.919 --> 00:16:24.429 And I went, OK. He was that meant he was ready. 00:16:25.090 --> 00:16:28.330 So we sat down we did three demos We wrote I 00:16:28.330 --> 00:16:30.149 said, I like that. I like that So we wrote the 00:16:30.149 --> 00:16:33.110 songs went in making demos and then as we're 00:16:33.110 --> 00:16:35.470 making the demos I remember turning to him and 00:16:35.470 --> 00:16:38.690 the engineer and I said We're making an album 00:16:38.690 --> 00:16:42.090 and they said and they said we are So it went 00:16:42.090 --> 00:16:45.129 from there and he's he's turned to me back He 00:16:45.129 --> 00:16:47.830 gave he's given rebirth to me because he's turned 00:16:47.830 --> 00:16:52.850 me back on to me I won't is your son He's 40. 00:16:53.950 --> 00:17:22.039 Good age. Um, Suzy, is there any plans for you 00:17:22.039 --> 00:17:25.900 to do a second autobiography? Oh, yes. Everybody 00:17:25.900 --> 00:17:29.400 asks me that. I could. I actually could do one. 00:17:29.660 --> 00:17:33.619 So, yes, Suzy Quattro Unzipped 2007 was the, 00:17:34.079 --> 00:17:35.940 uh, we'd like to say the first volume. But, you 00:17:35.940 --> 00:17:38.180 know, we're audio presenters. We interview people 00:17:38.180 --> 00:17:40.920 like yourself. Of course we want the, the, the, 00:17:40.920 --> 00:17:43.880 the duty bits for, for, you know. I've been asked 00:17:43.880 --> 00:17:46.119 many times to do Unzipped 2. I have to think 00:17:46.119 --> 00:17:48.680 about that. I got so many projects going, you 00:17:48.680 --> 00:17:50.440 know. There's certainly a lot to add. I mean, 00:17:50.440 --> 00:17:53.059 I've done twice as much since that's been done. 00:17:53.279 --> 00:17:56.079 But I have to have the feeling for it. If I want 00:17:56.079 --> 00:17:58.660 to do it, I will. The first one was very, very 00:17:58.660 --> 00:18:01.940 good. I'm about to publish my eighth book in 00:18:01.940 --> 00:18:04.299 the summertime, which is my third poetry book. 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:08.160 And this is my second novel and my seventh book. 00:18:09.099 --> 00:18:11.200 And I'm working on the album. I mean, oh my God. 00:18:11.940 --> 00:18:16.000 I just don't stop. I have to either create, entertain 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:19.680 or communicate and then I'm happy. I love that. 00:18:19.880 --> 00:18:22.480 And the poetry we got through my words, through 00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:26.259 my thoughts, through my eyes? Yeah, Through My 00:18:26.259 --> 00:18:29.039 Words was a lyric book, Through My Thoughts was 00:18:29.039 --> 00:18:32.259 during Covid and I really used all those things. 00:18:32.920 --> 00:18:34.940 My two poetry books are Through My Eyes and Through 00:18:34.940 --> 00:18:37.960 My Heart. And the third one, which is going to 00:18:37.960 --> 00:18:40.599 complete the triology of poetry, not that I'm 00:18:40.599 --> 00:18:42.660 going to stop, but the three, but the three go 00:18:42.660 --> 00:18:44.579 together through my ass, through my heart. The 00:18:44.579 --> 00:18:47.640 third one's called through my pain. So it's so 00:18:47.640 --> 00:18:51.849 it's life. Life. Yeah. Yeah. Beautiful. Fingers 00:18:51.849 --> 00:18:55.349 crossed. As you say, you're so active. Since 00:18:55.349 --> 00:18:58.390 we've been speaking to you, I appreciate it's 00:18:58.390 --> 00:19:01.190 only been a small part of your career, but you 00:19:01.190 --> 00:19:03.769 haven't stopped in that time. If anything, I'd 00:19:03.769 --> 00:19:05.529 say it's sped up and escalated, to be honest 00:19:05.529 --> 00:19:11.190 with you. It has. It's gone crazy. I'm 75. I 00:19:11.190 --> 00:19:15.450 think they may have put the wrong date on the 00:19:15.450 --> 00:19:19.980 birth certificate. I like that. Well, the front 00:19:19.980 --> 00:19:22.980 bit looks absolutely perfect and the years have 00:19:22.980 --> 00:19:26.059 been very kind for you. Now, I've aged a lot 00:19:26.059 --> 00:19:31.500 more in those since 1973. I've aged a lot more 00:19:31.500 --> 00:19:34.579 than you have, although I was younger in age. 00:19:35.299 --> 00:19:38.420 But one thing's for sure, it's the aging process. 00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:42.559 And I remember you saying, you're not going to 00:19:42.559 --> 00:19:45.420 be the first person to halt the aging process. 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:49.059 It happens. Is this true? Of course. So you just 00:19:49.059 --> 00:19:52.480 accept it. And I actually don't care. I announced 00:19:52.480 --> 00:19:54.779 my age from the stage. I always have done. I'm 00:19:54.779 --> 00:19:57.380 proud to be seventy five. I'm happy with the 00:19:57.380 --> 00:19:59.180 way I'm aging. I'm happy with my energy. I'm 00:19:59.180 --> 00:20:01.279 happy. I'm happy with me. That's the whole key. 00:20:01.500 --> 00:20:04.359 That's such a find out in the book. The book, 00:20:04.440 --> 00:20:08.200 the book shows you how to get back to you. You're 00:20:08.200 --> 00:20:10.559 looking like you're not going anywhere anytime 00:20:10.559 --> 00:20:15.680 soon. No, not me. Yeah. As I say, the front looks. 00:20:15.880 --> 00:20:18.960 Brilliant and perfect, but it goes back to something 00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:21.119 you've said to me a couple of times in the past 00:20:21.720 --> 00:20:25.200 Uh, and you basically said it was about you continuing 00:20:25.200 --> 00:20:27.319 touring and you know, and you basically said 00:20:27.319 --> 00:20:31.460 something along the lines I will continue Turing 00:20:31.460 --> 00:20:34.819 until the time comes that I turn my back on the 00:20:34.819 --> 00:20:37.559 audience and I shake my ass and they don't go 00:20:37.559 --> 00:20:40.500 mad Something along those lines. Yeah, I have 00:20:40.500 --> 00:20:43.000 I have I'll tell you them. It's a good way to 00:20:43.000 --> 00:20:46.720 end Okay, so I said that when I was 35 because 00:20:46.720 --> 00:20:51.259 to me it was a glib Question to ask a 35 year 00:20:51.259 --> 00:20:53.240 old the guy said when are you gonna retire and 00:20:53.240 --> 00:20:56.299 I thought what an idiot what an idiot So I said 00:20:56.299 --> 00:20:59.319 when I go on stage and I turn my back on the 00:20:59.319 --> 00:21:01.839 audience and I shake my ass in their silence 00:21:01.839 --> 00:21:05.500 Then I slightly I slightly altered it when I 00:21:05.500 --> 00:21:09.599 got into my 60s and I said I'll retire when I 00:21:09.599 --> 00:21:12.200 go on stage turn my back on the audience and 00:21:12.200 --> 00:21:14.980 my ass shakes by itself which was even better. 00:21:15.960 --> 00:21:19.180 But now I've got my third and it's my serious 00:21:19.180 --> 00:21:23.799 one. It's my serious one. Only one time it has 00:21:23.799 --> 00:21:27.980 to happen. I go on stage and I don't deliver 00:21:27.980 --> 00:21:32.819 to my standard. Now I will know it in my heart 00:21:32.819 --> 00:21:36.380 and maybe they won't get it but I will and I 00:21:36.380 --> 00:21:39.450 will say goodbye. Thank you. It's been wonderful. 00:21:39.769 --> 00:21:41.609 Nowhere near that yet. I'm getting the best reviews 00:21:41.609 --> 00:21:44.230 of my life. So, but those are my three stages. 00:21:45.490 --> 00:21:47.890 This is Nick and Sue with Chatterbox giving you 00:21:47.890 --> 00:21:50.410 all you need to know about musical entertainment. 00:21:53.970 --> 00:21:58.730 Chatterbox, Chatterbox, Chatterbox. Before we 00:21:58.730 --> 00:22:00.970 let Susie go, we do want to do social media before 00:22:00.970 --> 00:22:02.789 we let you go. I thought you had something else 00:22:02.789 --> 00:22:05.089 for Susie. Yeah, go ahead. Susie, my proper name 00:22:05.089 --> 00:22:09.210 is Suzanne. Everybody calls me soon, but most 00:22:09.210 --> 00:22:11.990 people always call me Susie. And every time I 00:22:11.990 --> 00:22:14.750 get called Susie, I always remember Susie Cotter. 00:22:15.230 --> 00:22:19.190 Always. There you go. I was called everything. 00:22:19.769 --> 00:22:23.970 I was called Susan. I'm Susan. I was called Sue 00:22:23.970 --> 00:22:26.549 at school. I was called Susie K in the neighborhood. 00:22:27.130 --> 00:22:29.849 I was called Suze. I was in fact so many different 00:22:29.849 --> 00:22:32.089 spellings of my name and it drives me nuts that 00:22:32.089 --> 00:22:35.349 I had part of my merchandise is a T -shirt with 00:22:35.349 --> 00:22:37.769 seven different ways of spelling Suzy all wrong 00:22:37.769 --> 00:22:40.730 and then my name properly all crossed out and 00:22:40.730 --> 00:22:44.289 then my name. Fantastic, fantastic. And of course, 00:22:44.390 --> 00:22:46.890 one thing that people may not realize, you do 00:22:46.890 --> 00:22:49.970 have the most amazing surname. Quatro is your 00:22:49.970 --> 00:22:53.079 birth name. What more would you want? When I 00:22:53.079 --> 00:22:56.319 got first here too, if everybody asked me that, 00:22:56.539 --> 00:22:59.619 what's your real name? That's my real name. When 00:22:59.619 --> 00:23:01.259 I first got to England and Mickey and I were 00:23:01.259 --> 00:23:03.799 discussing my career, I hadn't made it yet. I 00:23:03.799 --> 00:23:06.940 said, Mickey, what should my stage name be? And 00:23:06.940 --> 00:23:11.259 he went, are you kidding me? He said Susie Quattro 00:23:11.259 --> 00:23:14.259 is one of the best names I've ever heard. It 00:23:14.259 --> 00:23:16.460 does sound like a stage name, doesn't it? Yes, 00:23:16.460 --> 00:23:19.200 it's amazing. I mean, obviously before we spoke, 00:23:19.359 --> 00:23:22.449 the first time I looked it up because Certain 00:23:22.449 --> 00:23:25.329 things an interviewer or presenter needs to know 00:23:25.329 --> 00:23:27.690 about who they're interviewing of course But 00:23:27.690 --> 00:23:29.609 of course we have to leave some of it wide open 00:23:29.609 --> 00:23:33.329 for I said be no questions to ask Sure, I was 00:23:33.329 --> 00:23:35.369 I just be doing a link in between records. So 00:23:35.369 --> 00:23:37.690 yeah, sure sure It's the first time we've asked 00:23:37.690 --> 00:23:39.869 you that but it is yeah, I know it's it's your 00:23:39.869 --> 00:23:43.269 real name is Perfect. Absolutely perfect. Like 00:23:43.269 --> 00:23:45.089 basically everything you do. But I know you're 00:23:45.089 --> 00:23:47.910 a person. You are perfect in your standards. 00:23:48.130 --> 00:23:50.690 You've got very high standards. But I think if 00:23:50.690 --> 00:23:53.549 the time ever came that you couldn't improve, 00:23:53.609 --> 00:23:55.430 whether it be technology or whatever it may be, 00:23:55.890 --> 00:23:59.569 I think you would stop. I would. I would know. 00:23:59.730 --> 00:24:02.410 And I would be very honest with myself. And I 00:24:02.410 --> 00:24:05.769 would say I've done my best. I've hit my peak. 00:24:06.470 --> 00:24:08.829 And I'm done. And thank you. Sure. Thank you. 00:24:08.920 --> 00:24:11.480 yeah sure it's been great chatting to you about 00:24:11.480 --> 00:24:13.220 amazing interview thank you yeah it's been great 00:24:13.220 --> 00:24:16.519 chatting to you about your literary side at last 00:24:16.519 --> 00:24:20.900 and uh susie quattro and grave undertakings a 00:24:20.900 --> 00:24:23.619 novel has already been published and it's been 00:24:23.619 --> 00:24:26.960 published by new haven publishing correct thank 00:24:26.960 --> 00:24:30.259 you and susie you mentioned your tour april next 00:24:30.259 --> 00:24:33.099 year yes anything else let's do your website 00:24:33.099 --> 00:24:35.599 and social media so people can go and take a 00:24:35.599 --> 00:24:37.599 look and do what they want ordering tickets and 00:24:37.599 --> 00:24:40.420 so on yeah Okay, the official site man, I'm on 00:24:40.420 --> 00:24:44.819 Facebook official and Facebook private www .susiequattro 00:24:44.819 --> 00:24:49.019 .com I'm on Instagram Susie quattro real Like 00:24:49.019 --> 00:24:51.140 I said official Facebook. I'm on everything. 00:24:51.619 --> 00:24:56.099 Hmm Okay, Susie. Well, it's been absolutely wonderful. 00:24:56.099 --> 00:24:58.039 It's been a delight to chat to you again and 00:24:58.039 --> 00:25:01.299 chat about you too and there's got to be another 00:25:01.299 --> 00:25:03.880 time and I can just see things escalating in 00:25:03.880 --> 00:25:06.220 your career so it definitely won't be five years 00:25:06.220 --> 00:25:08.519 when we chat next time. I think last time you 00:25:08.519 --> 00:25:10.480 were doing something I think sadly I lost both 00:25:10.480 --> 00:25:12.740 my parents one year after the other so we took 00:25:12.740 --> 00:25:15.500 a break and that was a time to gather thoughts 00:25:15.500 --> 00:25:19.109 then Yeah, you need to be 100 % there to do a 00:25:19.109 --> 00:25:20.769 second series. Yeah, you've got your dad's gravestone 00:25:20.769 --> 00:25:22.809 to do yet, don't you? We have. We have. Yes, 00:25:22.869 --> 00:25:25.450 thank you. We have, so put something great on 00:25:25.450 --> 00:25:27.849 there for him. OK. Thank you, Susie. It's been 00:25:27.849 --> 00:25:29.450 great, and I know the listeners are going to 00:25:29.450 --> 00:25:32.190 love it. And continued success, and we'll chat 00:25:32.190 --> 00:25:34.309 again sometime. Take care. Thank you. Thank you 00:25:34.309 --> 00:25:36.250 both. Thank you both very much. Take care. Bye 00:25:36.250 --> 00:26:29.160 -bye. This edition of the Chatterbox Redux podcast 00:26:29.160 --> 00:26:31.880 was presented by Nick and Sue and our special 00:26:31.880 --> 00:26:36.839 guest was Susie Quatro All inquiries please to 00:26:36.839 --> 00:26:41.259 nickelbum at myyahoo .com Our postal address 00:26:41.259 --> 00:26:45.259 is P .O. 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