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Watch Status Quo play the last live song they will ever play, probably

Legendary rockers Status Quo have played live for the last time. Probably. The band finished their SQ24 tour on Friday night with a set at Vivary Park in Taunton, Somerset, as part of the annual Live ...
The Arts Desk

Music Reissues Weekly: Status Quo - The Early Years

January 1968: the band who used to be The Spectres and Traffic Jam have finally had a hit with 'Pictures of Matchstick Men' Next up on the album featuring “So Ends Another Life” is “Poor Old Man.” Its ...

Status Quo, the BBC and the Tory plot to make Radio 1 ‘cool’

The news bulletins in February 1996 were dominated by weighty stories: a brace of IRA bombs in London, a devastating oil spill off the Pembrokeshire coast. Viewers of BBC News on the evening of ...
MusicRadar

“Everybody used to say how great Clapton was, but I remember saying to Eric, ‘You try playing that one riff for eight minutes!’”: How rock legends Status Quo stole a ...

Way back in 1970, during a long night of drinking at a club in the German city of Bielefeld, the two guitarists in British rock band Status Quo heard a song that would change their lives. Francis ...
Observer

R.I.P. Status Quo’s Rick Parfitt, the Man Who Changed How I Hear Rock

Never did I ever see a more pure moment of rock ’n’ roll than the day Status Quo played Live Aid. I blame Rolling Stone for a lot of things. I could provide a long list, but that would certainly ...