48 Crash

"48 Crash"
Single by Suzi Quatro
from the album Suzi Quatro
B-side	"Little Bitch Blue"
Released	1973
Genre	Glam rock [1] [2] hard rock [3]
Label	Rak Records
Songwriter(s)	Mike Chapman, Nicky Chinn (A-side) Suzi Quatro, Len Tuckey (B-side)
Producer(s)	Mike Chapman Nicky Chinn
Suzi Quatro singles chronology
"Can the Can" (1973) "48 Crash" (1973) "Daytona Demon" (1973)

"48 Crash" is Suzi Quatro's third solo single and was released after "Can the Can". It was included on her debut album Suzi Quatro (known as Can the Can in Australia). It later appeared as a track on her 1995 album What Goes Around . The single peaked at number three in the UK in July 1973, ^[4] and number one in Australia for one week. It also hit number two in Germany, ^[5] and charted well in other European countries. ^[6]

Background

This Quatro's third solo single was released after she moved from the United States to Britain. In the United States she had already released two singles with all-female band The Pleasure Seekers. ^[7]

The song "48 Crash" was written and produced by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn. ^{[8] [9]} The song "Little Bitch Blue" was written by Quatro and Len Tuckey ^[9] and produced by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn. ^[8]

The song has long been assumed to be about andropause. ^[10] However, according to the British writer D. J. Taylor, one alternative theory is that, having boasted of their ability to write "a song about anything", Chapman and Chinn were issued with the challenge to come up with a treatment of the 1848 United States economic crisis. ^[11]

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (1973–1974) Peak position Australia ( Go-Set ) [12] 2 Australia (Kent Music Report) [13] 1 Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40) [14] 6 Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders) [6] 18 Canada Top Singles ( RPM ) [15] 91 Netherlands (Dutch Top 40) [16] 23 Netherlands (Single Top 100) [17] 16 Norway (VG-lista) [18] 5 Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) [19] 2 UK Singles (OCC) [4] 3 West Germany (GfK) [5] 2

Year-end charts Chart (1973) Position Australia (Kent Music Report) [20] 50 Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) [21] 10 Year-end charts Chart (1974) Peak position Australia (Kent Music Report) [22] [23] 23

See also

• List of number-one singles in Australia during the 1970s

References

1. Perry, Andrew (23 February 2006). "Quatro crashes back". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 22 November 2013.
2. Reynolds, Simon; Press, Joy (1995). The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock 'n' Roll. Serpent's Tail. p. 244. ISBN   1-85242-254-8.
3. Larkin, Colin (2002). The Virgin Encyclopedia of 70s music. Virgin Books. p. 348. ISBN   978-1-8522-7947-9. Suzi Quatro (...) sound hinged mostly on a hard rock chug beneath lyrics in which scansion overruled meaning ('the 48 crash/is a silken sash bash').
4. "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
5. "Offiziellecharts.de – Suzi Quatro – 48 Crash" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved 5 June 2013. To see peak chart position, click "TITEL VON Suzi Quatro"
6. "Suzi Quatro – 48 Crash" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
7. "Michigan Rock and Roll Legends SUZI QUATRO". Michigan, United States: Michigan Rock and Roll Legends. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
8. Hendriks, Phil; Mankowitza, Gered (January 2011). Suzi Quatro (CD booklet). Suzi Quatro. London, United Kingdom: 7T's Records. GLAM CD 118.
9. Thompson, Dave. "Suzi Quatro – A's, B's and Rarities – Review". AllMusic . Retrieved 1 August 2012.
10. In a Melbourne, Australia performance in January 2025 Quatro introduced the song by stating to the audience that it was "about male menopause"
11. Taylor, D.J. (3 March 2013). "There's none as intolerant as a liberal". The Independent . London, United Kingdom. Archived from the original on 5 March 2013. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
12. "Go-Set Australian charts – 29 December 1973". Go-Set . Archived from the original on 15 March 2016. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
13. "Australia No. 1 hits – 1970's". World Charts. Archived from the original on 24 April 2014.
14. "Suzi Quatro – 48 Crash" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
15. "Top RPM Singles: Issue 5018b." RPM . Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
16. "Nederlandse Top 40 – week 41, 1973" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
17. "Suzi Quatro – 48 Crash" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
18. "Suzi Quatro – 48 Crash". VG-lista. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
19. "Suzi Quatro – 48 Crash". Swiss Singles Chart. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
20. "Forum – ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts – Top 100 End of Year AMR Charts – 1970s". Australian-charts.com. Hung Medien. Archived from the original on 6 November 2013.
21. "Schweizer Jahreshitparade 1973" (in German). Hitparade.ch. Hung Medien. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
22. "National Top 100 Singles for 1974". Kent Music Report. 30 December 1974. Retrieved 15 January 2022– via Imgur.
23. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 426. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.