Status Quo Song by Song
After their initial inception as a schoolboy band named The Scorpions in 1962, and following a number of band name and personnel changes, Status Quo eventually hit the charts in 1968 with the massive hit single ‘Pictures of Matchstick Men’. However, it wasn’t until they ditched their psychedelic duds and took on the denim, accompanied by a radical gear-shift from teenage-friendly pop to out-and-out electric boogie that they came into their own, defining the rock music genre for many throughout the 1970s. A raft of hugely successful albums followed that are still held in awe by an army of loyal fans; the release of Piledriver in 1972 heralded a purple patch in which twelve consecutive long-players charted in the UK top 10. The classic ‘Frantic Four’ lineup of Rossi, Parfitt, Lancaster and Coghlan started to disintegrate in 1981 and eventually imploded after Live Aid in 1985. Although Quo have gone on to post over sixty UK chart hits in no less than six separate decades, this publication focuses on those days of glory, song by song from their earliest recordings until the demise of the classic lineup.
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Status Quo Song by Song
After their initial inception as a schoolboy band named The Scorpions in 1962, and following a number of band name and personnel changes, Status Quo eventually hit the charts in 1968 with the massive hit single ‘Pictures of Matchstick Men’. However, it wasn’t until they ditched their psychedelic duds and took on the denim, accompanied by a radical gear-shift from teenage-friendly pop to out-and-out electric boogie that they came into their own, defining the rock music genre for many throughout the 1970s. A raft of hugely successful albums followed that are still held in awe by an army of loyal fans; the release of Piledriver in 1972 heralded a purple patch in which twelve consecutive long-players charted in the UK top 10. The classic ‘Frantic Four’ lineup of Rossi, Parfitt, Lancaster and Coghlan started to disintegrate in 1981 and eventually imploded after Live Aid in 1985. Although Quo have gone on to post over sixty UK chart hits in no less than six separate decades, this publication focuses on those days of glory, song by song from their earliest recordings until the demise of the classic lineup.
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Status Quo Song by Song

Status Quo Song by Song

by Graeme Stroud
Status Quo Song by Song

Status Quo Song by Song

by Graeme Stroud

Overview

After their initial inception as a schoolboy band named The Scorpions in 1962, and following a number of band name and personnel changes, Status Quo eventually hit the charts in 1968 with the massive hit single ‘Pictures of Matchstick Men’. However, it wasn’t until they ditched their psychedelic duds and took on the denim, accompanied by a radical gear-shift from teenage-friendly pop to out-and-out electric boogie that they came into their own, defining the rock music genre for many throughout the 1970s. A raft of hugely successful albums followed that are still held in awe by an army of loyal fans; the release of Piledriver in 1972 heralded a purple patch in which twelve consecutive long-players charted in the UK top 10. The classic ‘Frantic Four’ lineup of Rossi, Parfitt, Lancaster and Coghlan started to disintegrate in 1981 and eventually imploded after Live Aid in 1985. Although Quo have gone on to post over sixty UK chart hits in no less than six separate decades, this publication focuses on those days of glory, song by song from their earliest recordings until the demise of the classic lineup.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781781556436
Publisher: Fonthill Media
Publication date: 01/23/2018
Pages: 144
Product dimensions: 6.15(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Graeme Stroud is a musician and writer, having played lead guitar in a number of bands since the 1980s and various instruments for his solo projects. He has written on web sites and blogs on a number of subjects for several years, and has been a reviewer and interviewer for the Classic Rock Society since 2014, specializing in the blues and rock genres.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 5

Introduction 9

1 Quo before Quo 11

2 Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo 19

3 Spare Parts 27

4 Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon 35

5 Dog of Two Head 41

6 Piledriver 46

7 Hello! 52

8 Quo 59

9 On the Level 65

10 Blue for You 71

11 Live! 77

12 Rockin' All Over the World 85

13 If You Can't Stand the Heat . . . 91

14 Whatever You Want 97

15 Just Supposin' 104

16 Never Too Late 110

17 1+9+8+2 117

18 Back to Back 124

19 Quo after Quo 132

20 Back 2 SQ. 1 - The Frantic Four Reunion 2013 135

21 The Frantic Four's Final Fling 141

Epilogue 143

Bibliography 144

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