The Pleasure Seekers
Detroit sisters Patti and Suzi Quatro decided to form The Pleasure
Seekers after seeing The Beatles on American television in 1964.
Their other sisters, Arlene and Nancy, also eventually joined the
group, replacing Mary Lou Ball and Diane Baker.
Their first single - Never Thought You'd Leave Me -
was released in 1965 and the group began to tour extensively in
the USA (putting a premature end to 15-year-old Suzi's
education).
Follow-up single Light Of Love was released
in 1967, and in the same year the girl's travelled to Guam to
entertain American troops recuperating there from the Vietnam
War.
1968 brought a name change (to Cradle)
and a harder rocking sound.
The group (and the Quatro family) were thrown into turmoil in
1971 when two separate talent scouts showed an interest - not in
the band, but in Suzi individually. One of those scouts was
British pop producer Mickie Most (in Detroit to record with
Jeff Beck) who offered Suzi a recording contract in England. After some
deliberation Suzi accepted the offer, and by 1972 was fronting her
own band and touring the UK with Slade.
Patti and Nancy Quatro continued with Cradle for a while before
joining their brother Mike's band, The MQ Jam Band.
Patti
eventually moved on to join Fanny, the first all-female band to
break through into the pro music scene in America.
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