Strangely, Suzi Quatro was a bigger hit in Australia than anywhere else, so it is fitting that a very reverential documentary on her career should be an Australian film.

SUZI Q is an affectionate tribute to a trail blazer and trend setter, Suzi Quatro, the Detroit dynamo who revolutionised the image of women in rock n roll.

But the mystery remains why she was so big in Australia and Japan, Number 1 on the charts there, and similarly high ranking in Europe and the UK but in her homeland not the star she should have been.

Her impact in America is more of a mentor and her legacy is the proto mentor ship by proxy of women in rock like Chrissie Hind, Tina Weymouth and most particularly Joan Jett, Cherie Curie and Lita Ford.

Producers Tait Brady and Liam Firmager have fashioned a fanzine doco with acres of archive footage from Suzi’s early childhood when she played in her father’s band, to the formation of the group that featured her sisters, through to her move to London and her progression through Europe and the Pacific.

Interviews with her sisters show the lingering resentment of her running off and abandoning her siblings while showing Suzi had a conquering devil gate drive to expand.

There’s interviews with ex husband, Len Tuckey, her two children, and pop icons Alice Cooper, Deborah Harry, Joan Jett.

Actor Henry Winkler speaks about her time on Happy Days and the film comments on her litle known forays into musical thereat which included a successful West End run of Annie Get Your Gun.

Maybe not the definitive story on Suzi Quatro – it is still a dash too expurgated and a little too down in adoration falling, but SUZI Q remains a testimony to the stamina and drive of this Queen of RocknRoll, still kicking ass on stage nearing seventy years old.