'I gave women world wide permission to be different' - Quatro

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Bursting on to the scene in 1973 with a run of thunderous rock and roll singles that began with Can The Can, Suzi Quatro was one of the first women to become a rock superstar.

The 75-year-old grew up in Detroit, alongside fellow rock pioneers Alice Cooper, The Stooges and the MC5, and began her career fronting all-girl garage band the Pleasure Seekers alongside her sisters Patti and, later, Arlene.

Their song What A Way To Die is seen as a forerunner to punk with its chorus of "I may not live past 21, but woo what a way to die", but the band never found mainstream success in the US.