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| Title: | POP FILE |
| Notes: | Short history of the band's change of musical direction |
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| Country: | UK |
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POP FILE
STATUS QUO are Mike Rossi (guitar and vocals), Alan Lancaster (bass), John Coghlan (drums) and Rick Parfitt (guitar). They started out in the mid-60s, playing at holiday camps, and made the charts in 1968 with 'Pictures Of Matchstick Men' (no. 7). They followed this with 'Ice In The Sun' and 'Down The Dustpipe' but were put down as a teenybop band and retreated to the clubs where they slogged it right through to 1972 when they made a big impression at the Reading Festival and made it back into the singles and albums charts with a brash sound.