Status Quo: Hello (A&M)
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 '60's, produced a singular but sizeable hit called 'Pictures of Matchstick Men' and soon after faded back into obscurity.
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