Glycerine Queen

Leather Forever is the glorious DVD of Suzi Quatro's 2003 tour, subtitled 'The Wild One Live'.

It was filmed at the end of the tour so her voice struggles to hit the note a few times but she's an energetic stage performer. It's in a huge stadium in Germany, Suzi on a big stage with her six-piece band plus two backing singers. She stalks the stage in leathers and works the audience into a frenzy despite there being a definite age thing going on. The film flicks between colour and black and white and often the black and white portions are the younger Suzi of yesteryear singing the same song - the lip-sync doesn't always work but it's a nice effect.

At the end of Glycerine Queen Suzi does a bass solo before taking over the drums for the intro to Can The Can. 48 Crash and Devil Gate Drive are also in there as well as If You Can't Give Me Love and a host of other well remembered songs, but they're the big hits so are the obvious highlights. It's quite short at only 47 minutes but I don't mind - it's great to see her on stage!

The DVD ends with a a phone call from Suzi in which she talks about Mickey Most who died in 2003 and thanked him for his belief in her. That's a nice touch.

She puts on a good show - I need to see her live now... and, of course, she has all the new songs from the excellent new album, Back To The Drive!