Status Quo

Status Quo: 'We're Not Musicians — We're Players!'

Interview by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 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 ...

Bubblegum Has Stuck To Status Quo, And It's A Stain They Need Ridding Of

Interview by Tony Stewart, NME, 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: Piledriver

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 ...

Status Quo In The U.S.: 'Matchstick Men' Make Good

Interview by Anne Moore, LA Free Press, 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 ...

Status Quo: Enjoying A New Status

Report by Tony Stewart, NME, August 1973

TONY STEWART GOES SWISS WITH STATUS QUO, WHO ARE BIG BUSINESS THERE ...

Status Quo: Hello (Vertigo)

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 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" ...

Status Quo: Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles

Live Review by Harold Bronson, Melody Maker, 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: Hello (A&M)

Review by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 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 ...

Would You Live Next Door To Status Quo?

Interview by Harry Doherty, Disc and Music Echo, 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 ...

Status Quo: Rock That Boogie!

Profile and Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 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: Blow By Blow

Interview by Pete Makowski, Sounds, 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 ...

Status Quo: Cardiff Castle

Live Review by Mick Farren, NME, 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: Quo Storm The Castle

Live Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 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 ...

Status Quo: Story Of Quo

Retrospective by Pete Makowski, Sounds, 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 ...

Status Quo: Odeon Theatre, Birmingham

Live Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 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 ...

Status Quo: If You Can't Stand The Heat

Review by Paul Morley, NME, 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 ...

Status Quo: Whatever You Want (Vertigo)

Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 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: Whatever You Want (Vertigo)

Review by Tony Stewart, NME, 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 ...

Lunching with the Elder Statesmen of Charity Rock: The Nordoff-Robbins Concert, Knebworth

Review by Barney Hoskyns, Times, The, 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 ...

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 ...

Status Quo

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 ...