Status Quo

Status Quo are an English rock band whose music is characterized by their distinctive brand of boogie rock.   The group originated in The Spectres, founded in 1962 by schoolboys Francis Rossi and Alan Lancaster.  After a number of lineup changes, the band became The Status Quo in 1967 and Status Quo in 1969.undefined In 1991, Status Quo received a Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. The band continues to play music, despite facing criticism of being uncool and lacking air play on BBC Radio One during the 90's and beyond.

Links To Peel
Peel was an avid fan of the group in the 70's and even wrote a complimentary text on their 1975 Live E.P.:


 * "Amazing to think that when they first annoying the neighboors from scout halls and cricket pavilions, John Kennedy was still alive, only a fistful of daft Scousers and Hamburgers had heard of the Beatles, and I was selling crop insurance in West Texas. Even more amazing in this is - thirteen years on, their music is so fresh and vital that wherever you do a disco you know it's going to be a either 'Brown Sugar' or a Quo record that finally get's them moving. You know too, that there's always going to be a row of loonies - Maybe including you - who'll get down into that celebreated Quo boogie stance and churn to and fro like creatures possessed. Status Quo are good lads, they make exciting and unpretentious records, they make me feel positively carefree, have saved many a potentially disastrous gig for me, and if they rock on for another thirteen years - well that's just fine by me."

After the 70's, Peel was not keen on their music, which changed in the 80's when the band dropped their boogie rock style. Despite in the mid 90's, BBC Radio One removing the group from their playlist, Peel still continued playing some of the band's material from the 70's, which he considered were their greatest.

In 2002, the nightclub Fabric wanted Peel to compile a compilation of his favourite songs on their album. Peel suggested Status Quo in their tracklist, and commented in an interview.


 * “They wouldn’t let me put a Status Quo track on there, they thought that would be too uncool. I was a bit disappointed about that.”

The band's single Down Down appeared on John Peel's Record Box and the group appeared on the Channel 4 documentary of that programme in 2005, describing how honoured they were, when they found out that Peel kept a copy of the single in his special record box.

Festive Fifty Entries

 * 1977 Festive Fifty: Can't Give You More #25

Peelenium

 * Peelenium 1974: Down Down

Live Concert
Status Quo concert, first TX 24 March 1973. Recorded Paris Theatre, 1973-03-01.
 * 1) Junior's Wailing
 * 2) Someone's Learning
 * 3) In My Chair
 * 4) Railroad
 * 5) Don't Waste My Time
 * 6) Paper Plane
 * 7) Roadhouse Blues
 * 8) Bye Bye Johnny

Sessions
1. Recorded: 1972-02-07. Broadcast: 03 March 1972. Repeated: 12 May 1972

2. Recorded: 1972-11-20. Broadcast: 07 December 1972. Repeated: 28 December 1972 3. Recorded: 1973-01-08. Broadcast: 16 January 1973. Repeated: Unknown
 * Mean Girl / Na Na Na / Railroad / Someone's Leaving
 * Don't Waste My Time /Young / Oh Baby / Parfitt / Unspoken Words / Young / Paper Plane / Young / Softer Ride / Lancaster
 * Paper Plane / Softer Ride / Don't Waste My Time

Other Shows Played
(The following list was compiled only from the database of this site and Lorcan's Tracklistings Archive and is certainly incomplete. Please add further details if known.)

1972 1973 1974
 * 18 February 1972: Mean Girl (LP – Dog Of Two Head) Pye
 * 1973 In Concert: Status Quo In Concert (24th March 1973)
 * To Be Continued