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(from scrapbook 2, page 25)

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NOW THAT England's started to have good summers again, outdoor pop festivals have taken on a new meaning - no more muddy suffering, but a succession of stoned picnics. The GLC has been tapping this mood politically, but the most heart-felt community so far this year was undoubtedly the crowd for Status Quo's last performance a couple of weeks ago at Milton Keynes Bowl.

This was provincial boogie's final display. Quo's fans, punchy, scrawny, crash helmets at their feet like handbags in a dancehall, played their shadow guitars to sounds that came and went in the haze, while Quo proved, for the last time, that they can, again and again, call forth an exhilarating beat that becomes, after two minutes, an endless drone, and that Francis Rossi does a brilliant impression of an ordinary Quo fan.