Suzi Quatro Movies
Though officially a native of Detroit, MI (where she was born in 1950) rocker-cum-actress Suzi Quatro reaped the most widespread stardom in Great Britain, both as a musician and a thespian. Music was undoubtedly Quatro's strongest suit, and after enduring a several-year stint in a low-level band called the Pleasure Sisters opposite her siblings (later renamed Cradle), her path intersected with that of British producer Mickie Most. He caught Cradle performing in the early '70s while working with Jeff Beck at Motown Studios in Detroit, and though he felt disinterested in signing the group as a whole, he immediately expressed interest in tapping Quatro as a solo act. She achieved stardom in the U.K. thanks to a creative partnership with songwriters Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, including an extensive series of Top Ten hits. Quatro's style fused high-energy glitter pop and bubblegum pop with slightly (though not overtly) raunchy lyrics and predated the punk revolution by several years.Quatro briefly returned to the United States in 1977 for a multi-episode run as guitar-playing rocker Leather Tuscadero on the ABC sitcom Happy Days, then kept a somewhat low profile during the '80s, '90s, and 2000s, despite occasional television and stage roles in Britain. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
- 2004
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Rock out to 50 years of the King of Rock & Roll with this celebration of the man, the myth and the legend himself, Elvis Presley. Containing never-before-seen interviews with his closest peers inside and out of the music industry, follow rock's biggest icon from his early days with Sam Phillips and Sun Records through his untimely death in 1977 from the people that were there to see it all happen. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi
- 2004
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Years before the Go-Go's and the Bangles proved the commercial viability of all-female rock bands (and while Courtney Love was still in grade school), the Runaways were blazing new trails for women in rock & roll. Playing loud, swaggering hard rock which unapologetically dealt with sex, drugs, and wild living, the Runaways were seen as a novelty act by many when they released their first album in 1976; it wasn't until years later, after the solo success of band members Joan Jett and Lita Ford, that their importance and influence was widely recognized. Edgeplay: A Film About the Runaways is a documentary directed by Victory Tischler-Blue (who, as Vicki Blue, played bass with the group) which deals with the ups and downs of the band's career -- a story fraught with abusive management, sexual stereotyping, an uncomprehending record company, and a band of teenagers who were literally growing up on the road. A number of the group's better known songs do not appear in Edgeplay, due to the fact that Joan Jett refused to cooperate with the making of the film or allow her songs to be used on the soundtrack. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Victory Tischler-Blue, Cherie Currie, (more)
- 1994
After a dalliance with a government official, Patsy (Joanna Lumley) becomes embroiled in a tabloid sex scandal and is irate to see her true age reported nationally. "Borrowing" the Monsoon house for an interview with Hello magazine, she is disappointed to learn that photos for the spread won't be shot until the following week. However, when Edina (Jennifer Saunders) stubs her toe and enters the hospital for minor surgery, Pats takes the opportunity to accompany her and undergo a quick face peel. Finding the accommodations less than deluxe and ridiculed by a pair of wise-cracking nurses (Llewella Gideon and Orla Brady), Edina pops painkillers like candy and falls into a disturbing fugue in which her friends and family appear to her in the guise of British celebrities, from Helena Bonham-Carter to Germaine Greer -- both of whom have been the subject of ridicule on previous episodes. Awakening from her dreams to find that her surgery has already been completed, Eddy learns that her injuries were even more minor than they appeared; Patsy's face peel, however, doesn't generate quite such a happy outcome, nor does her debut in the pages of Hello. Originally broadcast on BBC 1 on January 27, 1994, Absolutely Fabulous: Hospital marked series two, episode one of this popular Brit-com. Suzi Quatro, Mandy Rice-Davies, Richard E. Grant, and Sylvia Anderson joined Bonham-Carter and Greer in the cast of cameo stars. ~ Brian J. Dillard, Rovi
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