Status Quo are a british rock group with powerful hop line. The band was created by bassist Alan Lancaster and guitarist Francis Rossi in 1962.
Status Quo began as a rock and roll freakbeat band called The Spectres. By 1967, with very little business success, they discovered psychedelia and changed their name to Traffic (later Traffic Jam, to avoid confusion with Steve Winwood’s Traffic.) At this time the arrangement also as well organist Roy Lynes and drummer John Coghlan. Late in 1967 they employed second guitarist Rick Parfitt and became The Status Quo, scoring Top 10 singles with Pictures of Matchstick Men and Ice In The Sun. “Pictures of Matchstick Men” remains the only Top 40 hit single the band has ever charted in the United States. They have never got the same level of achievement there,that they have enjoyed in their home country.
After their second album Spare Parts they determined to change into a heavy boogie rock group. During the seventies they became one of the UK’s leading rock bands, gaining a loyal following due to their brilliant live gigs. They proved a great quantity of energy during this decade and in the early 80s. They and are best called for songs from this era such as Paper Plane (1972), Caroline (1973), Down Down (1975), John Fogerty’s Rockin’ All Over The World (1977) and Whatever You Want (1979). Down Down topped the UK charts in January 1975 (their only British No. 1 single to date).
Lynes left in 1971, to be put back originally by guest keyboard players on album, as well as Jimmy Horowitz and John Parker, and later on a more enduring basis on record and stage by ex-The Herd and Judas Jump member Andy Bown, though as he was contracted as a solo artist with EMI, he was not credited as a full-time constituent until 1982.
Status Quo began as a rock and roll freakbeat band called The Spectres. By 1967, with very little business success, they discovered psychedelia and changed their name to Traffic (later Traffic Jam, to avoid confusion with Steve Winwood’s Traffic.) At this time the arrangement also as well organist Roy Lynes and drummer John Coghlan. Late in 1967 they employed second guitarist Rick Parfitt and became The Status Quo, scoring Top 10 singles with Pictures of Matchstick Men and Ice In The Sun. “Pictures of Matchstick Men” remains the only Top 40 hit single the band has ever charted in the United States. They have never got the same level of achievement there,that they have enjoyed in their home country.
After their second album Spare Parts they determined to change into a heavy boogie rock group. During the seventies they became one of the UK’s leading rock bands, gaining a loyal following due to their brilliant live gigs. They proved a great quantity of energy during this decade and in the early 80s. They and are best called for songs from this era such as Paper Plane (1972), Caroline (1973), Down Down (1975), John Fogerty’s Rockin’ All Over The World (1977) and Whatever You Want (1979). Down Down topped the UK charts in January 1975 (their only British No. 1 single to date).
Lynes left in 1971, to be put back originally by guest keyboard players on album, as well as Jimmy Horowitz and John Parker, and later on a more enduring basis on record and stage by ex-The Herd and Judas Jump member Andy Bown, though as he was contracted as a solo artist with EMI, he was not credited as a full-time constituent until 1982.
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