Hello, I'm Kirstie Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 1986, and the presenter was Michael Parkinson. In the larger-than-life world of rock music there can be few stories more unlikely than that of our castaway.

Born into a comfortable middle-class family in Detroit, she became an internationally known rock and roll style.

Today, she's developing a career as an actress with a big

critical success playing Annie Oakley in Annie Get She Gung. She is Susie Quattro.

Susie, you've got this image as being a resourceful character. Do you think you'd be able to cope on a desert island?

I think I would be able to cope very well. One thing I learned a long time ago is to like my own company.

Also being a Gemini helps because you're two different people I can have arguments

with myself. You know it works out quite well I am extremely resourceful.

Yes. You'd have your music of course on this desert island and I mean music's been your life from a very early age

in fact how soon after you were born do you remember music in your life?

Ooh very very long ago we were about three and four I think and there's tapes of us singing

duets with all of his sisters together and all that. We had one of those kind of

families where everybody stood up and did a turn and all that. How big was

a family? Five children and we all played and sang and my father played. and all

played and sang and my father played and my mother sang.

played an instrument that is.

Yes and what about musical influences apart from that? I mean what's your first

recollection of music from outside the family of an artist?

Well the earliest one is, in fact my first choice actually is Elvis Presley.

That was the first time I was aware of anything other than my dad's corny music, which is what we thought of it as.

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