Status Quo
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Status Quo: 'We're Not Musicians — We're Players!'
Interview by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 10 January 1976
STRIDING into his road-manager's sitting room, Francis Rossi quips, "no comment " and then spins on his heel as if a fast retreat is on ...
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Status Quo's Francis Rossi (2010)
Interview by Maureen Paton, Rock's Backpages audio, 17 November 2010
The Quo co-frontman talks about why he stays on the road; his family; playing solo; his relationship with Rick Parfitt; meeting the Queen; being on Coronation Street; playing Live Aid, and his luck to miss National Service.
File format: mp3; file size: 34.7mb, interview length: 36' 07" sound quality: ***
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Status Quo: In Search Of A Concrete Image
Interview by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 24 February 1968
STATUS QUO are worried men. Their problem: a follow-up to their first chart hit 'Pictures Of Matchstick Men'. ...
Status Quo In The U.S.: 'Matchstick Men' Make Good
Interview by Anne Moore, Los Angeles Free Press, 18 May 1973
STATUS QUO arrived from England early this summer week for the first part of their American tour. They settled in quietly at their hotel, sensibly ...
Lunching with the Elder Statesmen of Charity Rock: The Nordoff-Robbins Concert, Knebworth
Review by Barney Hoskyns, The Times, 2 July 1990
WHEN QUINCY JONES gathered together his USA For Africa superstars to record 'We are the World' five years ago, he pinned a sign outside the ...
Status Quo: New Bingley Hall, Stafford
Live Review by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 15 January 1977
BETWEEN SEVEN and eight thousand fans queued for hours in the rain on Sunday, and then were individually frisked before they streamed into the cavernous ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 13 October 1973
I GUESS I ought to be grateful to Status Quo. If I hadn't heard this album, I wouldn't have thought of writing the "Heavy Metal" ...
Gene Pitney, Amen Corner, Status Quo: Lewisham Odeon/Kinks, Tremeloes, Herd: Walthamstow Granada
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 13 April 1968
BOREDOM, HIGH JINKS AND CHAOS ...
Status Quo: Whatever You Want (Vertigo 9102 037)
Review by David Hepworth, Sounds, 13 October 1979
THE ONLY sensible critical comment ever passed on Status Quo came, I am informed, from the Right Hon Charlie Gillet. If twelve bars of unswerving ...
Idyll…At Grangemouth?: Beck, Bogert and Appice, Status Quo, John Peel & Steeleye Span
Live Review by Ed Jones, Cracker, October 1972
AS WE CRUISED TOWARDS GRANGEMOUTH in the Cracker-mobile, hoping for a day of peace'n'love near Falkirk, our suspicions should have been aroused by the RAC's ...
Status Quo: The Empire, Edinburgh
Live Review by Ed Jones, Cracker, October 1973
FOR A KICKOFF, let's get one thing straight: Status Quo's popularity depends not at all on critical approval or otherwise. Their audience at The Empire ...
Status Quo: Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles
Live Review by Harold Bronson, Melody Maker, 16 February 1974
LOS ANGELES – Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Rory Gallagher, and Manfred Mann's Earthband all graced the Whisky opening night to welcome Status Quo's second Los ...
Status Quo: Whatever You Want (Vertigo)
Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 13 October 1979
THE TITLE may be construed in some areas as Status Quo's capitulation to their critics, who've been claiming for donkey's years that the band's appeal ...
Status Quo: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 6 March 1976
THE STURICO security team didn't know what hit them. Lined up, muscles flexed, and ready for the worst, they were swamped by denim as soon ...
Profile and Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 31 January 1976
IN THE basement of a South London shop, a group rehearses. They're loud, ever so loud. A rat crawls from behind an amplifier, its ears ...
Status Quo: Quo Storm The Castle
Live Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 31 July 1976
Rock festivals in Wales always tempt providence, as many a Marley or 10cc fan can attest. But at Cardiff Castle last Saturday, the sun shone ...
Would You Live Next Door To Status Quo?
Interview by Harry Doherty, Disc, 26 October 1974
A STATUS QUO recording session is an experience. What with furious neighbours bursting into the studio in the middle of "takes" and morse code messages ...
Report and Interview by Ian Fortnam, Classic Rock, Summer 2003
WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR was responsible for the construction of Lincoln Castle in 1068. In Victorian times it housed a prison, but now acts as a ...
Medicine Head, Status Quo: Lyceum, London
Live Review by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 7 August 1971
THE RIGHT MEDICINE ...
Review by John Pidgeon, Let It Rock, February 1973
THE FACT THAT someone bothered to print the lyrics of Piledriver – there's a title safe from prosecution under the Trades Description Act – on ...
Review by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 18 July 1974
FOR THOSE of you out there who are still wondering who Status Quo are, they are a rather heavy British band who, in the late ...
Alice Cooper, The Stranglers, Status Quo: Reading Festival
Live Review by Len Brown, New Musical Express, September 1987
WELCOME TO my nightmare. "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! It's been five years but it's good to be back. . . Awwwwwwright! . . . We f—kin' ...
Leon Russell, the Grease Band, Juicy Lucy, Status Quo: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Mark Plummer, Melody Maker, 13 February 1971
LEON: ROCK SHOWMAN ...
Knebworth 90: The Billion Dollar Buskers
Live Review by Mat Snow, Q, August 1990
IN DAYS OF yore, the elders tell, the grassy slopes of Knebworth would resound to the pagan strains of Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Allman Brothers and ...
Live Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 31 July 1976
ALTHOUGH I IMAGINE it could be a disaster area if it rained, Cardiff Castle on a fine day is an ideal spot for a one ...
Status Quo: If You Can't Stand The Heat
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 4 November 1978
WHAT IS beyond Status Quo, I often wonder? What is beyond tracks with titles such as 'I'm Givin' Up Worryin'', 'Gonna Teach You To Love ...
Interview by Pete Makowski, Sounds, 28 February 1976
BY THE time you read this, Status Quo's new album and single should be riding high in the charts. You don't have to be an ...
Retrospective by Pete Makowski, Sounds, 14 May 1977
"Status Quo are one of those peculiar groups who have been around for years and who go through cycles and surges of popularity that make ...
Whatever You Want (To Eat): Having Lunch With Status Quo
Interview by Rob Fitzpatrick, The Word, December 2006
Note: This is the original "director's cut" version of the piece that ran in The Word. ...
Status Quo: Odeon Theatre, Birmingham
Live Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 3 December 1977
DEEP IN the heart of boogieland, as it were. Opening were the v. proficient, v. boring Nutz. I seem to recall hearing stuff from their ...
Profile and Interview by Simon Garfield, Mail On Sunday, July 1997
"THEY TAKE A vein from your leg, and chop it up four times." Rick Parfitt, the big-haired, blond singer-guitarist with Status Quo for the past 30 ...
Live Review by Susan Williams, New Musical Express, 4 August 1984
QUO: A NATION MOURNS ...
Who the Hell do Status Quo think they are?
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, January 1993
"She wears denim wherever she goes/Says she's gonna get some records by the Status Quo..." 'The Concept', Teenage Fanclub, 1991 ...
Status Quo: Enjoying A New Status
Report by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 11 August 1973
TONY STEWART GOES SWISS WITH STATUS QUO, WHO ARE BIG BUSINESS THERE ...
Bubblegum Has Stuck To Status Quo, And It's A Stain They Need Ridding Of
Interview by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 4 December 1971
IMAGES FOR bands are acquired, changed, but seldom forgotten – and such is the case with Status Quo. Underrated yet very talented, over a period ...
Status Quo: Whatever You Want (Vertigo)
Review by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 13 October 1979
"On again/No I never knew we could go on and on/They never thought we would be rockin' on/No we never thought we — could be ...
Status Quo: Pictures of Matchstick Men (Pye)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 12 October 1968
Status Quo — the hard work shows ...
Interview by Val Mabbs, Record Mirror, 28 March 1970
SINCE THEY first entered the charts with 'Pictures of Matchstick Men' and later followed this success with 'Ice In The Sun' Status Quo have consistently ...
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