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Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources.Please discuss this issue on the talk page.Status quo is a Latin term meaning the present, current, existing state of affairs.To maintain the status quo is to keep the things the way they currently are.The related phrase status quo ante, means "the state of things as it was before."Latin, the original sentence was in statu quo res erant ante bellum "in the state in which things were before the war".This gave rise to the shorter form status quo ante bellum "the state in which (it was) before the war", indicating the withdrawal of enemy troops and restoration of power to prewar leadership, as well as other variations, such as status quo itself.Arguing to preserve the status quo is usually done in the context of opposing a large, often radical change.The term frequently refers to the status of a large issue, such as the current culture or social climate of an entire society or nation.Status quo can also refer to the social status in the workplace or peer group school.Politicians sometimes refer to a status quo.Often there is a policy of deliberate ambiguity, referring to the status quo rather than formalizing the status.Clark Kerr is reported to have said, "The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed," meaning that the status quo cannot simply be decided against; action must be taken if it is to change.Sometimes specific institutions are founded to actively maintain the status quo.The United Nations, for example, was intended to help solidify the peaceful international status quo that immediately followed World War II.This assures that the following episode may begin from the same starting point, eliminating the need for the viewer to have knowledge of prior plot elements or to experience particular episodes in the correct order.TV shows since their inception, with all drastic changes usually happening in the premiere or finale of a given season, allowing the creative team to set up a "new" status quo.In recent years, however, this rule has softened, as even many sitcoms have started to develop stories and deepen character relationships over the course of a season.In Israel, the term refers to an informal agreement conducted in 1947 between the secular leadership of the Zionist movement in Palestine and leaders of the religious Jews, which created a framework for the establishment of the country.It has been more or less maintained throughout the country's existence.Peter is reported to have said, "Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status."Look up Status quo in
Wiktionary, the free dictionary.This page was last modified 16:01, 24 December 2007.See Copyrights for details.This article is about the English rock band.For the Latin term, see status quo.Status Quo, also known as The Quo or just Quo, are an English rock band whose music is characterised by a strong boogie line.The group was founded by bassist Alan Lancaster and guitarist Francis Rossi in 1962, becoming "The Status Quo" in late 1967, and finally settling on the name "Status Quo" in 1970.Status Quo in the 2000s
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6.Early career
Status Quo began as a rock and roll freakbeat band in 1962.At Sedgehill Comprehensive School, Catford, Francis Rossi and Alan Lancaster, who were members of the same orchestra, started a band called The Scorpions.Changing their name to The Spectres, Rossi and Lancaster played their first gig at the Samuel Jones Sports Club in Dulwich, South London.All three sank without trace.History of the band
By 1967 the group discovered psychedelia and changed their name to Traffic (later Traffic Jam, to avoid confusion with Steve Winwood's Traffic).They released another single 'Almost But Not Quite There' which was also a flop.In late 1967 the band became The Status Quo, and in January 1968 they released the very successful Top 10 single "Pictures of Matchstick Men".Rick Parfitt was invited to join the band just as this hit the charts.The single reached Number 7 in the charts.Unfortunately, the band followed it up with another flop, "Black Veils Of Melancholy"."Pictures of Matchstick Men" remains the only Top 40 hit single the group has ever charted in the United States.Lynes left in 1971, to be replaced (in the studio) by guests including keyboard studio player, Jimmy Horowitz and John Parker.Quo have sold in excess of 118 million records worldwide.Live Aid charity event at Wembley in July 1985.That year Rossi recorded and released two solo singles with longtime writing partner Bernie Frost.In the summer of 1985 Rossi, Parfitt and Bown, along with Edwards and Rich started work on a new Status Quo album.Lancaster, who was by now permanently living in Australia, took out a legal injunction to stop the band using the Status Quo name on any records, citing his increasing musical differences with the group, notably during the sessions for the 1983 album Back to Back over two tracks which became hit singles for the group around that time.The injunction was lifted after a court hearing in January 1986.Lancaster remained in Australia, and in 1986 joined a band called 'Party Boys', who had no success in Britain.He left the band in 1987.April 1994 with Manchester United Football Club as "Come on You Reds" giving the band their second UK Number 1.Parfitt had to undergo heart surgery in 1997 but was able to overcome it and make a successful return with a memorable performance in Norwich three months later.Andrew Bown also took a year off at the same time for family reasons, and was temporarily replaced on stage by Paul Hirsh, formerly of Voyager.Status Quo in the 2000s
Although Status Quo still release new material every few years, recent years have seen them release a series of greatest hits compilations and covers albums.One of the band's most recent original albums, Heavy Traffic, is considered by many fans to show a return to their classic 1970s form.BBC television quiz programme Mastermind chose Status Quo as his specialist subject.In December 2005 it was announced that Parfitt was undergoing tests for throat cancer.Their latest album, 'In Search of the Fourth Chord', was released on the band's own Fourth Chord label in September 2007.Produced by veteran producer Pip Williams, who had worked with Quo in the studio since 1977, the album was critically acclaimed as a continued return to form but was not a huge commercial success, perhaps due to a distinct lack of airplay.Status Quo's song entitled "Pictures of Matchstick Men" was featured in Mack Dawg Productions' snowboard film "We're People Too!"At the 2005 London Live 8 concert Coldplay's Chris Martin sang the chorus to "Rockin' All Over the World" in their song, "In My Place", in deference to Status Quo.Persephone's Bees covered "Paper Plane" on their 2006 album Notes from the Underworld.Status Quo factsheet from the band's official website.This page was last modified 15:21, 10 January 2008.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.See Copyrights for details."Are you sure you want to block this user?More than any other group.The eleventh highest ever.QUO have had more hit albums (33) in the British Albums Chart than any other band apart from The Rolling Stones.QUO'S 1990 'ROCKIN' ALL OVER THE YEARS' album sold over 1.The album spent over six months in the British Albums Chart, including ten weeks in the Top 10.In 1981 QUO became one of the first recipients of the coveted SILVER CLEF AWARD, presented annually by the Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy Trust for outstanding services to British music.In 1982 QUO became the first contemporary band to play to Royalty when they performed a sell out charity show attended by HRH PRINCE CHARLES at the NEC in Birmingham.The first major fund raising event for the charity.QUO playing three major shows in different countries within a twenty four hour period.In 1988 QUO played a record breaking series of fourteen sell out shows to over 300, 000 people at the giant Olympic Stadium in Moscow.Over 300 press, radio and TV representatives from throughout the world teamed up with holidaymakers to see QUO perform a special show in the Butlin's ballroom!QUO'S 25th anniversary Number One single 'THE ANNIVERSARY WALTZ' (1990) featured the band performing excerpts from sixteen classic Rock 'N Roll songs.Totalled together, the original versions spent a staggering total of 292 weeks in the British Singles Chart.QUO appearing at the massive Knebworth charity show.The marathon event took a year to organise and involved four stages, 60 drums, 200 amplifiers, 62 guitars, 165 cymbals, 12 miles of cable, 50 cameras, 2000,000 watts of power, 25000 lights, 250 crew, 8 helicopters, 5 jets, 20 limousines and 16 police escorts.QUO'S RICK PARFITT and FRANCIS ROSSI saw double during 1991 when they unveiled waxworks of themselves at Madame Tussauds Rock Circus wax museum.The waxworks are now included in the exhibition's 'Rock Legends Hall of Fame'.QUO presented with the most prestigious award in British music when they were awarded the BRITS AWARD for 'OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO THE BRITISH MUSIC INDUSTRY'.Britain's biggest selling daily newspaper The Sun described the stunt as 'the highlight of the entire show'.QUO followed the two awards by doing time for a day when Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt opened a music workshop for inmates at London's Pentonville Prison.The summer of 1991 saw QUO co headline Britain's biggest stadium tour of the year when the band played eight sell out shows with Rod Stewart.Over 260,000 people attended gigs at Celtic FC in Glasgow, Manchester United FC, Gateshead Stadium in Newcastle, Ipswich Town FC and Wembley Stadium.In August 1992 QUO headlined the Radio One 25th Anniversary Celebrations, playing to 125,000 people at the PARTY IN THE PARK at Sutton Park in Birmingham.October 1992 saw QUO perform at the prestigious 'Last Tattoo' in Berlin in the presence of HM QUEEN ELIZABETH.The crowd was the biggest since JAYNE MANSFIELD switched on the lights in 1959.It is the first time that the world famous china company has produced Character Jugs of living music artists since jugs of THE BEATLES were produced twenty years ago.QUO'S 1988 Top five hit 'BURNING BRIDGES' spent two weeks at Number One and achieved Gold sales status.Allied Forces of Great Britain, The USA and France to celebrate the withdrawal of troops from Berlin.The meeting led to the bands joining forces to record a new version of THE BEACH BOYS' Sixties classic 'FUN FUN FUN'.QUO recorded their parts in Surrey, England before sending the tapes to America where THE BEACH BOYS recorded their vocals in various studios and hotel rooms while on tour.The album, which entered the British Album Chart at Number 2 in it's first week of release, also includes collaborations with BRIAN MAY from QUEEN ('Raining In My Heart') and STEELEYE SPAN'S MADDY PRIOR ('All Around My Hat).In their 35 year history, it is estimated that QUO have played over 5500 live shows to a total audience in excess of 24 million people.Parfitt's life saving surgery came less than a week after QUO had returned from gruelling round the world tour which had seen the band play a major series of shows in Japan, Australia, The USA and The Middle East in under five weeks.The operation resulted in the cancellation of twenty European festival dates and, following a three month recuperation, the band returned to live work with a massive outdoor gig at Norwich FC on August 2nd.Mercury Records) which features, for the first time, over 40 classic QUO hits on one double CD.In March 1999 QUO released the 'UNDER THE INFLUENCE' album.After playing to some two million people during 1998, the band promoted the launch in typical Quo style by embarking on a series of 10 UK pub gigs which saw them performing to just a couple of hundred people each night.The UK pub gigs were followed by similar promotional shows in Amsterdam and Germany.April 2000 saw the release of 'FAMOUS IN THE LAST CENTURY' featuring QUO'S unique interpretation of 16 all time classic rock 'n roll songs which became legendary in the last century.Trailed as the 'ultimate boogie party album of the new millennium', it notched up hit album number 31 for the band, a tally beaten only by the Rolling Stones.The album release coincided with transmission of a major BBC TV documentary which profiled the extraordinary 35 year STATUS QUO history.QUO launched their 2000 Australian tour with a trip on the Australian version of the Orient Express, the Great South Pacific Express.The magnificant train took 250 fans and media to one of Australia's oldest railway stations, Grandchester, located deep in the outback where Quo played a gig on a flatbed railway carriage in a searing temperature of over 30 degrees centegrade.In April 2001 QUO became the first outsiders ever to enter a BIG BROTHER house when they played a gig for the eight housemates in the Norwegian version of the hit TV show.QUO'S realesed a new album of original material for over three years on September 23rd 2002 entitled 'HEAVY TRAFFIC'.To coincide with the release, a major new 'warts 'n all' TV documentary of Quo's life on the road, produced and directed by award winning film maker Jane Treays, was premiered on C4 in the UK.Thomas Myspace Editor V4.Thomas Myspace Editor V4."Are you sure you want to delete this comment?"Hey Guys,have a Great Day and a Rockin Week!Best greetings from Berlin!Hey hun, sorry about that I must have given you the wrong one.But anyways, the right site is www.You'll see what I'm talking about when you get in there.The 4th chord is a D min 7th.Bad News back in the chart by downloads.The track in currently sitting at No 16 in the HMV download charts.Please if you haven't already go and download the track and get Quo back where they belong, hurray before the weekend !!!Piend saw your profiYle and thinSks you look hoTt!Osaka 1997 and it's my wonderful memory."Urgent Security Alert","Warning: You are submitting information to an outside site.Do you wish to continue your form submission?"With two guitars and an organ plugged into one Vox AC30 amp that had been bought for Lancaster as a Christmas present, they start to practise,
Alan is soon replaced by Jess Jaworski on organ and Barry Smith joins the band on the drums.Originally called The Scorpions, the band change their name to The Spectres and play their first gig at the Samuel Jones Sports Club in Dulwich, South London.While the Spectres rehearse at the nearby Air Cadets base in Dulwich, they meet John Coghlan, then drumming in a band called The Cadets.John soon replaces Barry on the drums and the band start to write their own material.After a year of solid rehearsals, the band begin to attract a wider audience.Roy Lynes joins the band playing a Vox Continental organ.Pat becomes their manager and encourages them to travel further afield for gigs.Cafe Des Artistes in London's Fuham Road follows.Stoller song 'I (Who Have Nothing)' to John Schroeder, a producer and talent scout and the band sign a five year deal with Piccadilly Records on July 18th .The Spectres complete a spectacular hat trick of flops with their third single 'We Ain't Got Nothing Yet'.They change their name to Traffic Jam, release another flop, a song entitled 'Almost But Not Quite There' (the first release written by Francis Rossi) and then settle on the name Status Quo.Sign in to get personalized recommendations.See all 6 customer reviews...Want it delivered Thursday, January 17?Digitally remastered reissue approved by the band's official fan club!Instant Ringtones in 30 Seconds.No Credit Card Required.Buy the sheet music for Status quo at Sheet Music Plus.Add a iframe that allows us to ping the server when this element becomes visible
a9AdsViewNamespace.The easiest way to shoot video reviews."Slow Train" and "Back Water" in my car without worrying about blowing my tweeters due the the distortion.The high end frequencies on these classic Quo albums can run on the "bright" or even "harsh" side, but the person remastering these album did an awesome job of smoothing off the high end frequencies.Not only one of Status Quo's best albums, but one of the best rock albums ever.Was this review helpful to you?QUO is unique among albums by Status Quo in that it's much darker and heavier than their other 70s albums.This album, like the others features plenty of rockin' good times, but there's a sense of foreboding in nearly every track."Lonely Man" which I think is one of their best and most melodic sounding songs they've ever written...Was this review helpful to you?See all 6 customer reviews...What a band they used to be!England when Status quo had just released "Caroline"...CRANK THIS ONE UP LOUD,FROM START TO FINNISH STATUS QUO ALBUM QUO ROCKS STAND OUT TRACKS: BACKWATER AND SLOW TRAIN ARE REAL HIGHLIGHTS.Stars, Quo is the best, Great Cd hard to find in Australia.What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing Items Like This?Music You Should Hear: Artists' PicksWant to know what Norah Jones, Sting, and Il Divo are listening to?If you need help or have a question for Customer Service, contact us.Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?Your comments can help make our site better for everyone.Please note that we are unable to respond directly to all feedback submitted via this form, but we'll ask you to sign in so we can contact you if needed.Track your recent orders.Visit our Help department.You have no recently viewed items or searches.After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.Look to the right column to find helpful suggestions for your shopping session.Popular Brand Stores on CatalogLink.Charts
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