The one lesson I've learned from life: Singer Suzi Quatro

The one lesson I’ve learned from life: Singer Suzi Quatro, 72, says we all remember things differently

• Suzi Quatro is a 72-year-old American singer, songwriter and bass guitarist 
• She is married to a German concert promoter and lives in Essex and Hamburg 
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Suzi Quatro, 72, is an American singer, songwriter and bass guitarist who has sold more than 55 million records worldwide. Married to German concert promoter Rainer Haas, she lives in Essex and Hamburg.

WE ALL REMEMBER THINGS DIFFERENTLY 

There is a difference between truth and perception. It’s a big subject for me. Over the years I’ve had many things happen and situations occur, and I know the truth of how I experienced them, but I’m also aware everyone perceives them differently.

In my 2007 autobiography, Unzipped, I told how, as a teenager in Detroit, my older sister, Patti, and I were in an all‑female rock band, The Pleasure Seekers. I got picked out for a UK-based solo career, and Patti joined another American girl group, Fanny, but didn’t make it big like she wanted to. After being in England for a few years having hits, I returned home and discovered Patti had made outfits for herself from clothes I’d left in my old bedroom.

It felt like she’d erased me from the family, which was upsetting.

Suzi Quatro, 72, is an American singer, songwriter and bass guitarist who has sold more than 55 million records worldwide

A few years ago, Patti explained that as I’d been gone since 1971, she didn’t think I’d need those clothes again, so she used them. She was upset that I’d written the story in my book, and I said: ‘Maybe, but it happened — you can’t change that fact.’

Ours were two different viewpoints of the same incident.

Patti and I have now talked about it openly a zillion times, but I don’t think it’ll ever be totally resolved.

In both my book and 2019 TV documentary, Suzi Q, I included things that affected me emotionally.

I didn’t ask the permission of those involved, and I wouldn’t expect them to ask me if it was the other way round. I believe everyone has a right to tell their version of their life. In fact, when Patti was upset, I told her to write her own book — I even offered to write one with her.

I’m a very fair-minded person and I will listen to all viewpoints. If it turns out that I’m the one who messed up, I will put my hand up. Sometimes in life you have to agree to disagree, and love each other despite those differences.

• Suzi’s EP Uncovered is out now on Sun Records. This spring she and KT Tunstall will release an album.

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