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UNCOVERED: Status quo person - The Untold Story

Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: April 20, 2026

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Skindred, The Karma Effect, Billy Talent and more

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“He was like, ‘No, I want the other position.’ That’s where it became so acrimonious between us”: Francis Rossi opens up on the internal tensions between Status Quo’s two guitar greats

A decade on since Rick Parfitt's death, Rossi reveals how the Quo wasn't big enough for the both of them

Guitar World

“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 riff from The Doors and built an entire career out of it

"That song is where the Quo twelve-bar boogie shuffle came from"

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“Even my dental hygienist sent me something the other day to say they were all singing it at some wedding reception”: How a British boogie-rock band turned a minor John Fogerty hit into an all-time classic that kicked off the biggest gig in history

Status Quo beefed up John Fogerty’s ‘piddly’ original and struck rock’n’roll gold

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“As soon as Jimmy Page came on, the roof came off the place! Afterwards, Plant was absolutely fuming”: The epic, ego-fuelled story of Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath’s Live Aid reunions

In Juy 1985, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath reunited for Live Aid. Cue the spats and ego clashes

Louder

Live Aid, as told by those who weren’t there: ‘We switched it off when Status Quo came on’

IN FOCUS: When we tell the story of Live Aid, which happened 40 years ago this weekend, we tend to focus on Bob Geldof and the performers. But the truest sense of the day could be found outside of Wembley: the students who found it cheesy, the communities it galvanised,…

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"Ask any Quo fan and they’ll agree. The rawness was the reason they liked it": Status Quo's classic Live! gets a deluxe, multi-disc makeover

Status Quo's classic live 1976 double repackaged in an eight-CDset with three full show recordings

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Who was Mike Peters? Singer passes away at 66 after blood cancer diagnosis

The frontman has died after previously being diagnosed with blood cancer more than 30 years ago

Evening Standard

“Freddie Mercury got me in a half-nelson. I couldn’t move!”: A rock legend’s backstage antics at Live Aid - and his beef with a fellow star

Bowie was “a nice guy”. Elvis Costello, not so much…

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Status Quo announce long-awaited expanded edition of classic Status Quo – Live! album

The deluxe edition package of Status Quo - Live! includes three complete sets recorded in Glasgow in 1976

Louder

‘Pallister had a cracking voice, but Parker, Keane and Irwin were hating it. All of the other lads were shuffling to the back, so I took the pressure off them’: Lee Sharpe recalls recording Man United's No.1 single

Manchester United hit the top of the pop charts in 1994 with their Come On You Reds single

FourFourTwo

Legendary east London pub venue where Roxy Music and the Who performed reopens after refurbishment

Red Lion enjoyed an extraordinary heyday in the Sixties and Seventies when many bands played before going on to global fame

Evening Standard

25 things we’re looking forward to in 2025

It's a new dawn, it's a new day, and we're feeling good - and here's 25 reasons why

Louder

“Biker festivals booked us for some reason… Four songs in, when we were actually about to die, we’d launch into some Status Quo to save our lives”: When the unclassifiable Haze finally got to play for a prog audience, they found it refreshingly easy

80s outfit never had a record deal or management – instead they“got good at being poor” to avoid compromising their musical values, and it’s kept them going through the decades

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“Punk didn’t ride over the top of Quo, because we rock harder than any of ’em. This band seems invincible somehow”: The epic story of Status Quo, the greatest British boogie band never to break America

Drugs, denim and 12 bar boogie – the story of one of the UK’s most successful rock bands

MusicRadar

"SID WAS THE PISTOLS": Liam Gallagher hits back at Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock’s criticism of Oasis

The Pistols bassist had compared Oasis to Status Quo and called the band's live shows "boring"

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Liam Gallagher has given a scathing response to Sex Pistols' Glen Matlock for calling Oasis "boring"

The Oasis brother has hit back at Glen Matlock with some icy words

The Independent UK

Liam Gallagher shoots back after Sex Pistols star labels Oasis ‘boring’

Glen Matlock had compared Oasis to Status Quo: ‘Kind of samey’

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Status Quo stage gear and studio equipment to be auctioned after final tour hint

The sale would give fans the chance to buy part of the band’s history, including its ‘backline’, auctioneers said.

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“Eddie Van Halen and Gary Moore were kind of animal players!”: Iron Maiden’s Adrian Smith says he never wanted to be a virtuoso

For him, shredding is “like maths or something!”

Louder

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

Status Quo have come to the end of the road: Now where have we read that before?

Louder

"I just can't see us doing it one more time": 40 years after their End Of The Road tour, Status Quo may finally be nearing the end of the road

In other news, Francis Rossi has announced an extensive solo tour

Louder

"I can't be a good father, because I had eight kids and my career came first": A no-holds-barred interview with Status Quo's Francis Rossi

Francis Rossi has fronted Status Quo for nearly 60 years: A British institution, they're loved and loathed in equal measure

The Guardian - UK

Offending Ringo and probing Thatcher: Tom Hibbert, the man who ‘brought the bonkers’ to Smash Hits

As a new collection of his work, Phew, Eh Readers?, is published, former colleagues including Neil Tennant recall the irreverent music journalist’s phrasemaking genius

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"Big fan of their prawn sandwich, I must say": Status Quo have reworked Rockin' All Over The World as a "Saving All Over The Store" advert for M&S

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