"48 Crash" is
Suzi Quatro
Susan Kay Quatro (born June 3, 1950) is an American singer, bass guitarist, songwriter, and actress. In the 1970s, she scored a string of hit singles that found greater success in Europe and Australia than in her homeland, reaching No. 1 in th ...
's third solo single and was released after "
Can the Can". It was included on her debut album ''
Suzi Quatro
Susan Kay Quatro (born June 3, 1950) is an American singer, bass guitarist, songwriter, and actress. In the 1970s, she scored a string of hit singles that found greater success in Europe and Australia than in her homeland, reaching No. 1 in th ...
'' (known as ''Can the Can'' in Australia). It later appeared as a track on her 1995 album ''
What Goes Around
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*"What Goes Around", a song by Ringo Starr from his 1992 album ''Time Takes Time''
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''. The single peaked at number three in the UK in July 1973,
and number one in Australia for one week. It also hit number two in Germany,
and charted well in other European countries.
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.
The song "48 Crash" was written and produced by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn.
The song "Little Bitch Blue" was written by Quatro and Len Tuckey
and produced by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn.
The song has long been assumed to be about
andropause. However, according to the British writer
D. J. Taylor
David John Taylor (born 1960) is a British critic, novelist and biographer. After attending school in Norwich, he read Modern History at St John's College, Oxford, and has received the 2003 Whitbread Biography Award for his biography of Geo ...
, 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.
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Year-end charts
See also
*
List of number-one singles in Australia during the 1970s
The following lists the number one singles on the Australian Singles Chart during the 1970s. The source for this decade is the "Kent Music Report".
1970
Other hits
Songs peaking at number two included "Fortunate Son" / "Down on the Corner" ...
References
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1973 singles
1973 songs
Number-one singles in Australia
RAK Records singles
Song recordings produced by Mike Chapman
Songs written by Mike Chapman
Songs written by Nicky Chinn
Suzi Quatro songs