Rock pioneer Suzi Quatro on Happy Days (AV Club interview)

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https://music.avclub.com/rock-pionee...ice-1844311410

AVC: What was it like being on the set of Happy Days? It was reportedly a really close set with those guys, with Ron Howard and Henry Winkler.

SQ: Well, that was something I always knew I was going to do. I was always going to move ahead and spread my wings. That’s the kind of artist I am. As I say in the film, I won’t be boxed in. I got the call… I went over there and got the part. It’s going to be for three seasons. It never felt unusual for me. I just kind of slid into the job, you know? Slid into it, felt real, real natural.

I was talking to Ronnie [Howard] not that long ago on the phone. And I was curious, and I was picking his brain. And I said, “Listen, I have a question. Did it ever seem to you that I was a green actress, and I was brand new to the show?” And he said, “No. That’s the strangest thing, Suzi. It felt like you had acted your whole life, and that you’d been in the show since the beginning.”

So it’s obviously a natural thing for me. You know, it’s—not that you don’t have to work at it. Of course you do. But I am an artiste. [Laughs.] That’s my only excuse. I am an artiste, and whatever I do within this field, including poetry, writing songs, musicals, DJ, whatever, it’s quite a natural thing for me, and I go from the same instinct with all of it. And it’s to entertain and communicate.

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