Suzi Quatro – 48 Crash

“48 Crash” – Single by Suzi Quatro from the album Suzi Quatro
B-side “Little Bitch Blue”
Label Rak Records
Songwriters Mike Chapman, Nicky Chinn (A-side)Suzi Quatro, Len Tuckey (B-side)
Producers Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn
Charted No.3 in UK; No.2 in West Germany; Ni.6 in Austria; No.1 in Australia; No.18 in Belgium

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.