Status Quo

Artiestinformatie

Land	Verenigd Koninkrijk

Status Quo was een populaire rockband, waarvan de muziek gekarakteriseerd wordt door een sterke boogie- en boogiewoogiestijl. De klassieke bezetting bestond enerzijds uit oprichters Alan Lancaster en Francis Rossi en anderzijds uit Rick Parfitt en John Coghlan. Status Quo heeft meer dan 20 hits in de Top 40 gehad, desondanks zonder nummer 1-hit. Wel bereikten twee singles de 2e plaats als hoogste notering (Down Down en Roll Over Lay Down).

De band begon in 1962. De eerste grote hits waren psychedelische nummers zoals Pictures Of Matchstick Men, Black Veils Of Melancholy en Ice In The Sun.

De band ontwikkelde in de jaren zeventig een eigen kenmerkende stijl van weinig akkoorden, makkelijke teksten en een stevig ritme. De band had wereldwijd grote hits met onder andere Mean Girl, Down Down, Whatever You Want, Rockin' All Over The World, The Wanderer en In The Army Now, desondanks brak de groep nooit door in de VS.

Midden jaren tachtig nam het succes af en verlieten sommige bandleden de groep. Rick Parfitt overleed op 24 december 2016 op 68-jarige leeftijd. Toch bracht de groep in 2019 een nieuw album uit: Backbone. In 2021 overleed Alan Lancaster.

Songtekst

Well you wouldn't read my letters if I wrote you
You asked me not to call you on the phone
Well there's something I've been waiting for to tell you
So I wrote it in the words of a song

Now the glamour of the gay night-life has lured you
To the places where the wine and liquor flow
Well you went to be somebody else's baby
And forget the truest love you've ever known

I never knew there were honky-tonk angels
Oh I might have known you'd never make a wife
You gave up the only one who ever loved you
And went back to that wild side of life

Now the glamour of the gay night-life has lured you
To the places where the wine and liquor flow
Well you went to be somebody else's baby
And forget the truest love you've ever known

I never knew there were honky-tonk angels
Oh I might have known you'd never make a wife
You gave up the only one who ever loved you
And went back to that wild side of life

I never knew there were honky-tonk angels
Oh I might have known you'd never make a wife
You gave up the only one who ever loved you
And went back to that wild side of life

Songinformatie

	A-kant
Artiest	Status Quo
Titel	Wild Side Of Life
Lengte	3:18
Componist(en)	W. Warren, A. Carter
Producer(s)	Roger Glover
	B-kant
Titel	All Through The Night
Componist(en)	Lancaster, Rossi
Producer(s)	Status Quo

Platenlabel	Vertigo
Catalogusnr	6059 153
Album	12 Gold Bars