Friday 25 November 2016

544 Status Quo - Live on One


First  viewed  : 14  May  1982

1982  was  a  big  year  for  Status  Quo  who  proclaimed   it  their  20th  anniversary  year  although  they  were  dating  their  life   from  a  schoolboy  band  formed  by  Francis  Rossi  and  Alan  Lancaster  in  1962   and  were  not  called  Status  Quo  until  1967.At  the  start  of  the year  rat-haired  drummer  John  Coghlan  decided  it  was  an  opportune  time  to  call  it  a  day  and  had  to  be  replaced  by  relatively  short-haired  Pete  Kircher   who'd  recently  been  with  new  wave  nearly-men  The  Original  Mirrors. Their  most  recent  album  was  imaginatively  titled  1982.

This  gig  at  the  NEC, Birmingham  was  a  charity  concert  for  the Prince's  Trust  which  I  suppose  gave  the  BBC  a  justification  for giving  them  50  minutes'  worth  of  free  publicity.

I  liked  Quo in  the  seventies  while  acknowledging  that  variety  wasn't  their  strongest  suit  but  now  felt  they  were  getting  past  their  sell-by  date. Nevertheless  front  men  Rossi  and  Parfitt   seemed  like  good  eggs  and  there'd  be  a  fair  smattering  of  familiar  songs  in  the set  so  we  watched  it.

The  Quo  were  an  accomplished  live  act  by  this  point, they  put  on  a  good  show  and  I  can't  think  of  anything  more  to  add  to  this  one.

   

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