48 Crash
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{{Infobox song
| name = 48 Crash
| cover = 48crash.jpg
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| type = single
| artist = Suzi Quatro
| album = Suzi Quatro
| B-side = Little Bitch Blue
| released = 1973
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| genre = {{hlist|Glam rock{{cite news|first= Andrew |last= Perry |title= Quatro crashes back |newspaper= The Daily Telegraph |date= 23 February 2006 |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandjazzmusic/3650417/Quatro-crashes-back.html |access-date= 22 November 2013}}{{cite book|first1= Simon |last1= Reynolds |author-link1= Simon Reynolds |first2= Joy |last2= Press |author-link2= Joy Press |title= The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock 'n' Roll |year= 1995 |isbn= 1-85242-254-8 |page= 244 |publisher= Serpent's Tail}}|hard rock{{cite book|first= Colin |last= Larkin |author-link= Colin Larkin (writer) |title= The Virgin Encyclopedia of 70s music |year= 2002 |page= 348 |quote= 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'). |publisher= Virgin Books |isbn= 978-1-8522-7947-9}}}}
| length =
| label = Rak Records
| writer = {{hlist|Mike Chapman, Nicky Chinn (A-side)|Suzi Quatro, Len Tuckey (B-side)}}
| producer = {{hlist|Mike Chapman|Nicky Chinn}}
| prev_title = Can the Can
| prev_year = 1973
| next_title = Daytona Demon
| next_year = 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, 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.{{cite web|title= Michigan Rock and Roll Legends SUZI QUATRO |publisher= Michigan Rock and Roll Legends |url= http://www.michiganrockandrolllegends.com/mrrl-hall-of-fame/145-suzi-quatro |location= Michigan, United States |access-date= 1 August 2012}}
The song "48 Crash" was written and produced by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn.{{cite AV media notes|first1= Phil |last1= Hendriks |first2= Gered |last2= Mankowitza |author-link2= Gered Mankowitz |title= Suzi Quatro |title-link= Suzi Quatro (album) |others= Suzi Quatro |date= January 2011 |location= London, United Kingdom |type= CD booklet |publisher= 7T's Records |id= GLAM CD 118}}{{cite web|first= Dave |last= Thompson |title= Suzi Quatro – A's, B's and Rarities – Review |publisher= AllMusic |access-date= 1 August 2012 |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/as-bs-and-rarities-mw0000472686}} 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.In a Melbourne, Australia performance in January 2025 Quatro introduced the song by stating to the audience that it was "about male menopause" 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.{{cite news|first= D.J. |last= Taylor |author-link= D. J. Taylor (writer)|title= There's none as intolerant as a liberal |newspaper= The Independent |location= London, United Kingdom |date= 3 March 2013 |access-date= 4 March 2013 |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/theres-none-as-intolerant-as-a-liberal-8517965.html |archive-date= 5 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130305011557/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/theres-none-as-intolerant-as-a-liberal-8517965.html |url-status= live}}
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Charts
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!Chart (1973–1974) !Peak |
| scope="row"|Australia (Go-Set){{cite magazine|title= Go-Set Australian charts – 29 December 1973 |magazine= Go-Set |url= http://www.poparchives.com.au/gosetcharts/1973/19731229.html |url-status= dead |access-date= 3 February 2014 |archive-date= 15 March 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160315152900/http://www.poparchives.com.au/gosetcharts/1973/19731229.html}}
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| scope="row"|Australia (Kent Music Report){{cite web|title= Australia No. 1 hits – 1970's |website= World Charts |url= http://www.worldcharts.co.uk/chartfeatures/aus/aus70.htm |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140424142031/http://www.worldcharts.co.uk/chartfeatures/aus/aus70.htm |archive-date= 24 April 2014}}
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| {{single chart|Austria|6|artist=Suzi Quatro|song=48 Crash|rowheader=true|access-date=5 June 2013}} |
| {{single chart|Flanders|18|artist=Suzi Quatro|song=48 Crash|rowheader=true|access-date=5 June 2013|refname="BEL"}} |
| {{single chart|Canadatopsingles|91|chartid=5018b|rowheader=true|access-date=5 June 2013}} |
| {{single chart|Dutch40|23|year=1973|week=41|rowheader=true|access-date=5 June 2013}} |
| {{single chart|Dutch100|16|artist=Suzi Quatro|song=48 Crash|rowheader=true|access-date=5 June 2013}} |
| {{single chart|Norway|5|artist=Suzi Quatro|song=48 Crash|rowheader=true|access-date=5 June 2013}} |
| {{single chart|Switzerland|2|artist=Suzi Quatro|song=48 Crash|rowheader=true|access-date=5 June 2013}} |
| {{single chart|UK|3|date=19730818|rowheader=true|access-date=5 June 2013|refname="UK"}} |
| {{single chart|West Germany|2|artist=Suzi Quatro|song=48 Crash|rowheader=true|access-date=5 June 2013|songid=291|year=1973|refname="GER"}} |
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See also
References
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Category:Number-one singles in Australia
Category:Song recordings produced by Mike Chapman
Category:Songs written by Mike Chapman