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EXPLAINED: Status quo - The Real Truth

“I dream of him a lot – only the positive stuff. But the negative stuff hits me in reality. The night he joined, he said, ‘I haven’t learnt the songs’”: Francis Rossi on the Status Quo groove, Kempers, and his relationship with the late Rick Parfitt

The Quo’s motormouthed frontman had no intention of releasing a new solo album. But with The Accidental, Francis Rossi tells us he’s stumbled across his best work yet

Guitar World

"It was like pulling teeth. Which is among the reasons why we stopped writing together." The story of the Status Quo song that ended a partnership and became a roller-coaster live classic

Forty-Five Hundred Times was the song that threw a spanner in the songwriting partnership of Status Quo's Parfitt and Rossi, but it took on a life of its own, and they even extended it for royalty

Louder

"I know people don't want to hear me saying such things, but they're true." Francis Rossi comes clean on Status Quo, Rick Parfitt and new solo album The Accidental

With Status Quo now history and Francis Rossi enjoying his An Audience With tours, a new album was far from his mind

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Status Quo frontman ‘embarrassed’ by BBC Radio 1 lawsuit

Rock group infamously sued Radio 1 in 1996, claiming the station was refusing to play their music

The Independent UK

"Some horribly lame moments slip into that horribly twee dad-rock territory that blighted so much of his recent work with Status Quo": Francis Rossi doesn't quite return to the pile-driving sound of his old band on The Accidental

Status Quo frontman surprises himself with unexpected fifth solo album

Louder

Francis Rossi suggests Rick Parfitt's partners stoked divisions

Francis Rossi has suggested Rick Parfitt's partners caused problems in Status Quo by trying to create a rivalry between them.

BANG Premier

“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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"When I left the band, I should have stayed left": Francis Rossi has some regrets about Status Quo's 1985 reunion

Francis Rossi's new album The Accidental finds him in complete creative control, and he likes it

Louder

"It's loud, the guitars are right to the fore": Francis Rossi unexpectedly returns to boogie-driven Status Quo sound on new single

Francis Rossi has remembered how to rock

Louder

13 absolute bangers from Status Quo's Frantic Four lineup

Warning: headbanging to these songs could result in serious injury

Louder

Status Quo rocker Francis Rossi lives in constant fear of death

Status Quo legend Francis Rossi, 76, has revealed that he is worried about his mortality and plagued with insecurities despite a remarkable music career.

BANG Premier

“We used to work with Fleetwood Mac a lot on the uni circuit. You could sit down beside the stage and they’d start playing - der-der, der-der - for an hour and a half. We wanted to do that”: Francis Rossi on how Status Quo developed their 12 bar boogie

Plus he opens up about what sundered his relationship with Rick Parfitt

MusicRadar

‘I terribly wanted to be liked. Still do’: Status Quo’s Francis Rossi on money worries, his deepest neuroses – and sounding like Nellie the Elephant

Lampooned by critics but loved by fans, Quo turned boogie into blockbuster rock. As a live album captures their 70s peak, their frontman remembers late friend Rick Parfitt – and reconsiders his whole sense of self

The Guardian - UK

“Personally owned and used by one of Britain’s most favoured of all rock ‘n’ roll guitarists”: One of Status Quo legend Rick Parfitt’s stage-played Fender Telecasters is up for sale

It might not be the modded circa 1960 model that was the late Quo man's main stage guitar but this white Tele is worth rocking all over the world

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“I wanted to be XTC or Talking Heads… the Haircut One Hundred album had Genesis at its heart, and Chris Squire got me into bass”: Nick Heyward’s passion for prog

Singer-songwriter recalls feeling like he was reading a book when he discovered A Trick Of The Tail, and that’s why his solo work has become more progressive over the years

Louder

"I heard it for the first time at a dope dealer’s house one night": My 10 favourite British albums ever, by Status Quo's Francis Rossi

Francis Rossi reveals why the Rolling Stones annoy him, names the guitarist whose onstage farewell he copied, and reveals the band "who should have been drowned at birth"

Louder

"We'd sit surrounded by amps. The magic just flowed. It gave you goose-pimples": How Status Quo made Hello! and turned into Britain's hottest band of 1973

Sometimes, a band works on an album and everything clicks. For Status Quo, their 1973 No.1 Hello! was just such an album. But that doesn’t mean there weren’t problems

Bristol Post

Status Quo legend Francis Rossi signs guitar for charity auction at Bristol gig

Funds will go to children’s charity Variety for a new ‘sunshine minibus’

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Status Quo's Francis Rossi: "I’d rather have a buttered bread roll with mild cheddar and tomato than cocaine and groupies"

Status Quo's Francis Rossi on “arsehole behaviour”, the perils of fame and why he can be “an insecure little shit”

The Guardian - UK

Experience: I’ve seen Status Quo 487 times

When I die, I’ll be buried in a casket made from melted Quo records

Daily Mirror

Del Boy's props set to make a fortune as Only Fools and Horses memorabilia auctioned

Only Fools and Horses will soon be able to be able to get their hands on some iconic memorabilia, as props used by David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst on the BBC show are set to go on sale

Daily Mirror

Status Quo legend Francis Rossi dreams about late bandmate Rick Parfitt who died in 2016

The Mirror join the rockers on tour as Francis tells how he stays in shape, his battle with pneumonia, the perils of growing old and old bandmate Rick

Daily Mirror

Good Morning Britain guest cut off as show suffers awkward technical blunder

GMB Hosts Kate Garraway and Ben Shephard had been interviewing Status Quo star Francis Rossi as the rocker spoke about going back on tour - but the chat ended very prematurely

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