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===Female garage bands=== [[File:The Pleasure Seekers (band).jpg|thumb|upright|left|[[The Pleasure Seekers (band)|The Pleasure Seekers]] in 1966 ([[Suzi Quatro]] far right)]] Garage rock was not an exclusively male phenomenon—it fostered the emergence of [[all-female band]]s whose members played their own instruments. One of the first of such acts was New York's [[Goldie and the Gingerbreads]], who appeared at New York's Peppermint Lounge in 1964 and accompanied the Rolling Stones on their American tour the following year.<ref name="Eder (Goldie & The Gingerbreads)"/> They had a hit in England with a version of "[[Can't You Hear My Heartbeat]]".<ref name="Eder (Goldie & The Gingerbreads)"/> The [[Continental Co-ets]] from Fulda, Minnesota, were active from 1963 to 1967 and had a hit in Canada with "I Don't Love You No More".{{sfnm|1a1=Steil|1y=2001|2a1=Markesich|2y=2012|2p=85}} [[The Pleasure Seekers (band)|The Pleasure Seekers]] (later known as Cradle), from Detroit, featured [[Suzi Quatro]] and her sisters.<ref name="Ankeny (The Pleasure Seekers)"/>{{sfn|Markesich|2012|p=289}} Quatro went on to greater fame as a musical solo act and television actress in the 1970s.<ref name="Ankeny (The Pleasure Seekers)"/> [[Luv'd Ones|The Luv'd Ones]], also from Michigan, signed with Chicago's [[Dunwich Records]] and cut records with a sometimes somber sound, such as "Up Down Sue".<ref>{{cite web|last=Koda|first=Cub|title=Truth Gotta Stand: Luv'd Ones|website=AllMusic|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/truth-gotta-stand-mw0000240518|access-date=May 17, 2017|archive-date=January 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160116201043/http://www.allmusic.com/album/truth-gotta-stand-mw0000240518|url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfn|Markesich|2012|p=156}} San Francisco's [[the Ace of Cups]] became a fixture in the [[San Francisco Bay Area|Bay Area]] scene in the late 1960s.<ref>{{cite web|last=Unterberger|first=Richie|title=Ace of Cups|website=AllMusic|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/ace-of-cups-mn0000752377|access-date=June 8, 2017|archive-date=June 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170613151043/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/ace-of-cups-mn0000752377|url-status=live}}</ref> Other notable 1960s female groups were [[the Daughters of Eve]] from Chicago<ref>{{cite web|last1=Ankeny|first1=Jason|title=Daughters of Eve|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/daughters-of-eve-mn0001989762|website=AllMusic|access-date=May 25, 2017|archive-date=August 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806215910/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/daughters-of-eve-mn0001989762|url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfn|Markesich|2012|p=156}} and [[She (American band)|She]] (previously known as the Hairem) from Sacramento, California.<ref>{{cite web|last=Unterberger|first=Richie|author-link=Richie Unterberger|title=She|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/she-mn0000021650|access-date=May 25, 2017|website=AllMusic|archive-date=April 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170413082815/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/she-mn0000021650|url-status=live}}</ref> All-female bands were not exclusive to North America. [[The Liverbirds]] were a beat group from the Beatles' home city of Liverpool, England, but became best known in Germany, often performing in Hamburg's [[Star-Club]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Unterberger|first=Richie|author-link=Richie Unterberger|title=The Liverbirds | From Merseyside to Hamburg: Complete Star Club|website=AllMusic|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/from-merseyside-to-hamburg-complete-star-club-mw0002002528|access-date=July 13, 2015|archive-date=September 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924230927/http://www.allmusic.com/album/from-merseyside-to-hamburg-complete-star-club-mw0002002528|url-status=live}}</ref> All-female groups of the 1960s anticipated later acts associated with the 1970s punk movement, such as [[the Runaways]] and [[the Slits]].{{sfn|MacLeod|2015|pp=122–123}}
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