The Friday Canon: QUO DEATH

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

With 54 UK Top 40 singles, we can't really ignore the Quo. Even if most of their songs sound the same, someone must be buying them! You have up to EIGHTEEN ticks to determine which Status Quo singles are canonical and which are not!

Quo FACTS

Come On You Reds was knocked off the No.1 spot by Wet Wet Wet's Love Is All Around. Boo or yay? I can't decide!

Francis Rossi used to be in The Scorpions! Sadly it wasn't this Scorpions.

They were in Corrie for a bit being sued by Les Battersby!

The Quo have spent in excess of seven and a half years (418 weeks) in the British Singles Chart - the eleventh highest ever. That is quite amazing I suppose.

More Quo Facts like that last one here!


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Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

There were about fifteen singles on their discography that didn't make the Top 40. Cripes!

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

As my nickname is Qo, I am always very happy when Steve Wright plays them on Radio 2 and says "We love Quo! You can't beat the Quo!". Therefore I am more favourably disposed to them than I otherwise might be. Hooray for 'Down down' though.

[pink-weasel.livejournal.com]

Down the Dustpipe is also ace and about "down".

One of them lives in Purley I think. Rossi, on the Webb(?) estate.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Parfitt lives round the corner from my office. I see him quite a lot. So does Pauline Fowler!

[pink-weasel.livejournal.com]

Pauline Fowler sees Rick Parfitt a lot?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I'm not doing too well today, am I? :-)

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

How funny, I ticked only three songs and they're the same ones everyone else did.

"In the Army" now is a big hit over here, for some reason, in the same way that that "Alice" song by Smokie is.

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

It's the only Quo song that doesn't sound exactly the same as all the others - which makes it stand out. And it was their second biggest hit too, makes you wonder why they didn't vary their sound more.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

I never knew Lord Sukrat was such a Quohead.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Indeed, I didn't know there was a "select all" button on polls :-)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

all songs the exact same = all songs the exact GREBT

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

But if you tick more than 18 our stats will be skewed!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i am borrowin blue_russian's extras innit

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

And mine!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Are we about to prove that singles sales do not a Pop band make? I admit that a lot of these singles charted in the thirties, but that's still a reasonable level of sales. Have the younger generation written off Quo as a one-trick quadraped?

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

The nineteen thirties ?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

No. Although Parfitt's hair dates back to the eighteen thirties.

WHERE IS 'MEAN GIRL'?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Got to Number 20 according to Everyhit

It's also grebt (and more or less established their signature sound).

Re: WHERE IS 'MEAN GIRL'?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I used this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_Quo#Official_UK_singles) instead this week (mainly because it has the years in brackets already!)

Re: WHERE IS 'MEAN GIRL'?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

bah, never trust a wiki

So close...

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia reveals that their cover of freakytigger fave, All Around My Hat, featuring Maddy Prior herself, failed to crack the top 40, reaching #47 in 1994.

Re: So close...

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

HALF MY KINGDOM FOR A YSI.

Re: So close...

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

all around my

I love this factsheet.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

QUO'S 25th anniversary celebrations in 1990 at Butlin's in Minehead became the global media event of the year. Over 300 press, radio and TV representatives teamed up with holidaymakers to see QUO perform a special show in the Butlin's ballroom!

Re: I love this factsheet.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Sadly nothing about the QUO DANCE as compulsorily performed at all 1980s wedding receptions (or at least the ones I went to).

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I've often wondered about Quo in recent years - how they survived, how their late 70s/early 80s stuff was...in the end i managed 11 ticks with the rest being pretty atrocious.

the first two singles are great tho!

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

they survived on Jim'll Fix It appearances alone

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

and cress.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

and 150 gigs a year.

and lots of c0ke (hence mr parfait's septum FALLING OUT IN THE SHOWER one day).

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

I went to a Status Quo concert. Every single song sounded the same, "the Wanderer". They were supported by Mike Love's Beach Boys. It was pretty fun, really.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

annoyingly i have had Marguerita Time in my head ALL BLUDDY WEEKEND