I was 16 years old when I watched the band at the Apollo Glasgow in 1976 I can only say it was like a brick hitting me in the face, the whole place erupted and the balcony was moving up and down visibly, I never missed a concert locally for the next 40 years, the material you have now discovered will be never-ending :)
Love them. I was privileged and hugely happy to see the original line up re-form ten years ago or so for the "Frantic Four" tour. I got quite emotional about it at the time. Never expecting to see them together again.
The "Frantic Four" line up isn't the original line-up though. More like the classic line-up. Not that line-ups matter, it's the music that is important :)
@@michaelkarlsson5966 Hello, thanks for your comment. Great. I am a fan since 1974 and I was listening to SQ music only with the radio. My first fecord I bought 1976. on the level. Since 1976 I know the band members names. I liked their music. I think 70% from the audience like their music. Last year I was talking with fans, who were born in 1986. I don't like comments like the frantic four were the real Quo. Look at the concert statistics. How many people saw them after 1986? Hope they are coming back in 2024 with a change in the live set.
@markbrooks8144 I am 54 now. I am a Hugo fan since 1976 when I was 7 years old. In 2014, when I was 45 I saw the original Frantic Four. A dream come true.
naughty? The song's about getting home after working all day and night, being tired and finding there's no room in his bed cause his misses is taking up all the room.
I saw the perform live once, with my mother. My mother always used to be every inch a lady, so this concert was no different. No jeans for my mother. She was looked upon like what is this Lady Di clone doing here, but as soon as they saw this lady was rocking it, they were headbanging with her ❤️. Nothing unites people more than music
I loved this band, and everything they did. Still do, all these years later. Such a distinctive style. I can't imagine this one going down in the US with it's suggestive lyrics. but most others shouldn't have been an issue.
I do remember status quo played a concert at my home town in April 1976 but I missed it for some reason and my older brother did go and thought it was great! Thanks for music
Thank you for reacting to Status Quo! Great great band! However, THIS song is NOT the song that made it in America. The one hit they had in America is "Pictures of Matchstick Men", a song that has very little in common with their aggressive boogierock style.
I saw them in June 1978 at The Hordern Pavilion. That was the last time The Frantic Four were here. The next tour was 1997, when I saw Rick and Francis on 2 consecutive nights at The Enmore Theatre. Rick prowled the stage to say hello to people on both sides of the stage. They were phenomenal.
If you do Quo again then you should react to tracks taken from their classic double live album in Glasgow, late seventies I think. Still for me one of the greatest live albums of all time. Forty Five Hundred Times might be the perfect place to start!!
Yeah, stick this in your pipe and smoke it. Easily and by far the best and greatest Rock Band in history. The LIVE version on their 4 track E.P. 1975 reached #2 on the Australian Chart.
By the way. The way I heard it told, it may not be quite as naughty as you think. I heard that it was about Rick Parfitt (I think), coming home in the early hours after being out gigging, to find his significant other hogging most of the bed. All he wanted was room to get in....... and sleep.
Heard and read the same, except that it's about Francis Rossi. Not that it matters. I think it's in the official biography "Xs all areas" if I don't remember wrong. :)
The lyrics themselves do sound very suggestive, but there's a more innocent story behind them... The story I heard was that Francis Rossi got home in the early hours after a gig, knackered and just wanting to go to sleep but she wouldn't let him get in bed, so he just sat drinking at the kitchen table and then crashed on the floor. 😂
Saw them first time at the Pink Pop festival in the Netherlands in the 70's. They just brought out the QUO album, and played the whole thing, right in front of me 🤸🤸😜 Allways been my favorit Status Quo album since. The more unknown songs i like better than the radio hits. Live concerts with QUO are ALLWAYS a party 🎉 Thanks Harri, and more QUO please 😁❤👍👊
@@eguicherit hoi Eric, wat een geweldig optreden was dat, hè? Ik kan me er nog veel van herinneren. JUST TAKE ME en SLOW TRAIN zie ik bijna nog voor me. En dat het begon te regenen. Wij hadden geen kaartje, maar we mochten van de bewaking over het hek klimmen. Ik heb ze daarna nog een paar keer gezien, in Kerkrade, in Ahoy, en niet zo lang geleden in Tilburg, nog met Rick Parfitt. Was erg goed, ondanks een beetje slap publiek. Groeten 👍👊😁
@@groovedohg if i close my eyes and think of that day, i can stil hear it. 😁 But serious, yes they did. Only time i've heard them do it live, Pink Pop 1974 👍👊
It’s not what you think..the song is about a situation that happened between the lead singer and his wife.He came home from touring and was greeted etc but the next day he came in a she was sitting bolt upright on his side of the bed with a angry expression and to save a fight he said “roll over lay down and let me in” meaning get back on your side go to sleep and let me get into bed.
Hey Harri, sorry, I meant to say Pictures of Matchstick Men, was their big North American hit. In Canada we did hear them a little bit more than the U.S. did. I chose this song as it's one of my faves from them. Here's a few more numbers about Status Quo: They have released around 100 singles and have spent over 400 weeks in the UK Singles Chart. They have spent over 500 weeks in the UK Albums Chart. Probably the most prolific Rock act NOT in the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame.
yah status quo got messed around a bit when they toured the US, that and the fact they didn't want to literally live iin the US meant they didn't really try to crack the US... you can also generally tell if its Status Quo playing as they tune their guitars a little differently than the standard...(its a bit like how you can tell ZZ top when they play aswell...)
Try to play roll over with 3 chords. I think you don't play guitar. When you are listening to the SQ compositions, not the cover songs, you can hear, that maybe 20% of their songs are really 3 chords songs. What ever has min. 7 chords, Island 10 or 11 chords. Their most songs are 4,5 chords songs or the most have problems with their ears.
@@johnsrensen3366 Many people are saying the same about Deep Purple or Uriah Heep. SQ have made a lot of good songs after 1986, some of them they never put on albums. Songs like better times, heavy daze, Lucinda, ain't wasting my time. I think the record company is responsible for many decisions. Rossi said in 1988, that cream of the crop should came out as a single, but the song was to fast for the record company. In the 1970 s there were 8 - 10 songs on an album,, later min. 5 songs more. You can't expect only highlights with so many songs on an album. You are right. The 1970 was a good time with SQ music... for the audience. I am a fan since Down Down. But inside the Band? But that is an other story. Look at the concert statistics, when they had a really great time as a live band. I think there was a change in the audience after Prince Charles went in SQ concert in 1982. Music for the people and not only for Rock fans.
This song written by Francis Rossi was about him coming home late from a gig and his wife was asleep sitting up in bed on his side. Nothing dirty about really if you know the circumstance.
Most people know the live version off the album 'Live!' in 1977 rather than this studio version off the 'Hello!' album in 1973. I learned to play this years ago and it has definitely got 6 chords, not 3 to play along with the record!!!
I saw them in the late 70s at Grugahalle in Essen, Germany. The whole wooden floor in this concert hall was going up and down 10cm, from all the thousands of headbangers and air-guitar-players there, stomping to the beat. The Owners of the Grugahalle wanted to end the show immediately, for security reasons. But they did'nt and that was good. Nothing went wrong and the show was amazing. In the 1970s Quo where the best and fun Live-Act around.
Hallo. Ich antworte mal auf deutsch. Ich hab die Band erstmals 1984 in Hannover gesehen. Seitdem über 75 mal, aber nur 1 mal im Ausland. 2001 in Leuuwarden in Holland. Sind sehr textsicher, die Holländer. Ich wohne in Oldenburg bei Bremen. Seit dem Jahr 2000 sind sie alle paar Jahre in Ostfriesland. Gutes Publikum, gute Stimmung, Hoffe, sie kommen mal hier vorbei. Im Ruhrpott waren sie bis heute auch gut vertreten.
It's unusual to hear the album version of this song being reacted to. Usually, it's one of the many live version that were recorded. The most famous of which was made into a single back in 1975. Incidentally, the one that appeared on 12 Gold Bars, (the first, 'official', compilation album of their hits which was released in 1980), was the album version! That album being, 'Hello!', from 1973, which is considered by many to be their best album. With songs like, 'Caroline', 'Softer Ride', and, 'Forty-five Hundred Times', on it, it's not surprising really. 'Break The Rules', 'Slow Train', 'Mystery Song', 'Rain', 'Down Down', 'Big Fat Mama', and, 'Paper Plane', are other songs by the Quo, worth checking out.
You’re English & you don’t know this song? 😮 You must be A LOT younger than me 😂 I know every single song and I wasn’t even a fan. They were just everywhere. You couldn’t escape them 😂
Naw man, the only hit they ever ever ever had in the US was Pictures of Matchstick Men from 1968. I loved Quo in the 70s but sadly they were not given the air time....Roll Over Lay Down was never a hit in the US. I was there...
The record company chooses the songs that work. If one single works and becomes a hit they try to recreate that succes an choose the tracks that sound a bit like the hit as the new single. If you listen to the albums there's a lot more diversity. Quo are definitely not (just) three chord wonders.
