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48 Crash

Field	Value
name	48 Crash
cover	48crash.jpg
type	single
artist	Suzi Quatro
album	Suzi Quatro
B-side	Little Bitch Blue
released	1973
genre
label	Rak Records
writer
producer
prev_title	Can the Can
prev_year	1973
next_title	Daytona Demon
next_year	1973

| B-side = Little Bitch Blue

"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.

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, 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

Chart (1973–1974)	Peak
position	Australia (Go-Set)	Australia (Kent Music Report)
2
1

Year-end charts

Chart (1973)	Position	Australia (Kent Music Report)	Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)
50
10

Year-end charts

Chart (1974)	Peak
position	Australia (Kent Music Report)
23

References

Perry, Andrew. (23 February 2006). "Quatro crashes back". [[The Daily Telegraph]].
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Larkin, Colin. (2002). "The Virgin Encyclopedia of 70s music". [[Virgin Books]].
"Michigan Rock and Roll Legends SUZI QUATRO". Michigan Rock and Roll Legends.
(January 2011). "Suzi Quatro". [[7T's Records]].
Thompson, Dave. "Suzi Quatro – A's, B's and Rarities – Review". [[AllMusic]].
In a Melbourne, Australia performance in January 2025 Quatro introduced the song by stating to the audience that it was "about male menopause"
Taylor, D.J.. (3 March 2013). "There's none as intolerant as a liberal". [[The Independent]].
"Go-Set Australian charts – 29 December 1973".
"Australia No. 1 hits – 1970's".
"Forum – ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts – Top 100 End of Year AMR Charts – 1970s". Australian-charts.com. Hung Medien.
"Schweizer Jahreshitparade 1973". Hitparade.ch. Hung Medien.
(30 December 1974). "National Top 100 Singles for 1974". [[Kent Music Report]].
Kent, David. (1993). "Australian Chart Book 1970–1992". Australian Chart Book.

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