Wednesday 2 May 2018

Lucy Museum of Musicians - Status Quo

Qualification to The Lucy Museum of Musicians who deserve entry to Lucy's Museum of Musicians is they must have a minimum of three songs which would make me turn up the radio if they came on.

Status Quo 
Qualifying Songs: Down Down, Rockin' All Over The World, Whatever You Want

Like some in this museum already mentioned, some bands discover a tune which brings chart success and then every subsequent song follows the same basic rhythm which Status Quo readily acknowledged, naming their final album 'The Search For The Fourth Chord' in reference to
the fact that the vast majority of their songs only used three.
Perhaps their finest hour came when they opened Live Aid to an audience of hundreds of millions across the planet in 1985, with 'Rockin' All Over the World', a cover of a song given the Quo rock treatment. 
'Down Down' was The Quo's only number one in the UK and was unmistakably Quo from the first lick of the intro, an up-tempo song with a bit more of a rougher edge than normal.
'Whatever You Want' is another speeded up 12 bar blues tune which became the Status Quo signature but it worked for them, they found their groove early on and it is almost impossible to listen to a Status Quo song and not tap your foot along to it.

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