Can the Can

This article is about a single. For the album released in Australia as "Can the Can", see Suzi Quatro (album).

"Can the Can"
The single cover of "Can the Can"
Single by Suzi Quatro
B-side"Ain't Ya Something Honey"
Released1973
Genre
LabelRAK Records
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Suzi Quatro singles chronology
"Rolling Stone"
(1972) 		"Can the Can"
(1973) 		"48 Crash"
(1973)
Music video
"Can the Can" on YouTube

"Can the Can" is the second solo single by American singer-songwriter Suzi Quatro and her first to reach number one in the UK, spending a single week at the top of the chart in June 1973. It also reached number one on the European and Australian charts; Quatro achieved her most consistent success throughout her career in these markets. The single belatedly became a hit in the US peaking at number 56 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1976. It was re-released as a single in the UK, with "Devil Gate Drive" as the B-side, in 1984, but failed to chart.[citation needed] The single made the charts again in 1987 in the UK at number 87,[citation needed] it also appeared on her 1995 album What Goes Around.[6]

This single made Quatro the first female bass guitar player to become a major rock star and therefore broke a barrier to women's participation in rock music.[7][8][9]

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  5. ^ "Teenager Pop Factory". Teenager. Vol. 4. M.M. Ahmed. 1973. p. 30. The only lady to get in top twenty and at number one, with a solo number was the English Suzy Quatro, with her hard rock and noisy number 'Can the Can'..
  6. ^ Thompson, Dave. "Suzi Quatro – What Goes Around". AllMusic. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
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  9. ^ Callwood, Brett. "Glycerine queen, forever!". Metro Times. Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States. Archived from the original on 14 December 2013. Retrieved 3 February 2014.