What did Francis Rossi think of IN THE ARMY NOW one of Status Quo's biggest hits

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Status Quo are one of the most successful rock bands in British chart history! With more than 60 top 40 hits and 25 top 10 albums, Francis Rossi and the band became a British institution with a career spanning 6 decades! Following their appearance at Live Aid, Status Quo returned with a new album and a song that would go on to top the charts all over Europe and become an anthem for a generation. In The Army now was originally written and released by Bolland and Bolland, but Francis Rossi heard it on Casey Kasems American Top 40 countdown and set about trying to persuade his bandmates to record it. As he says "it would either be a massive hit, or a resounding flop". A massive hit it proved to be! In The Army Now went on to be the number 1 song in countries right across Europe and vindicated Francis Rossi's decision and faith in the tune.
In this video he tells the story of how he first heard it and the effort it took to convince the band to record it. He also talks about the difficulties of playing it live and how his bass player has to help him out on stage!
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@RUDI-UK Год назад

Quo for me will always be early 70s. Their version of Roadhouse Blues is one of the best covers ever.

@simonmason8582 Год назад

I got the Bolland and Bolland album "The Domino Theory" as I loved Dutch music after listening to the pirates on the North Sea.

@banginman1879 Год назад

1970's Quo were awesome. Quo Live is one of the best live albums ever.

@Stu604 Год назад

I was privileged to have been in the video as a Army soilder!

@chuckwagon7354 Год назад

That song takes me back to playing the pubs and clubs in a covers band.

@PERFECTGINGERBASTARD Год назад

All gold to me. Quo was the soundtrack of my household 70s and 80s

@CarrigansGuitarClub Год назад

Your dad would of loved N. Ireland...never a dull moment in the 70's\80's

@alanstrom2221 Год назад

Francis told me that he didn't like the "Don't Stop" Covers album and that I shouldn't bother buying it. In this interview Francis says that QUO lost fans because of "RAOTWorld" yet I know that they gained a lot of new fans because of it. The fans they lost were the ones that hated "Marguerita Time" Alan Lancaster hated "Marguerita Time" so he left the Band. Compare "Big Fat Mama" with "Marguerita Time" and you'd have trouble believing it was the 'same' Band. Rossi destroyed STATUS QUO by selfishly indulging in his personal music tastes that didn't represent STATUS QUO or their loyal fans and supporters.

@BlueBlazer47 10 месяцев назад

In the Army Now, Red Sky, and an Ian Hunter song (Speechless) - I just had to get that album, which got a good review in Kerrang ("I'm glad to have this album in my potting-shed", wrote the journo). I know the Quo Army are a bit ambivalent about the mid/late-'80s Quo, but outsiders like me really enjoyed that era.

@perovwellyz560 Год назад

Compare In the army now with Roll Over Lay Down, which one was Status Quo? I believe Rocking all over the world is when Quo turned into a (or returned to being a) pop band

@colinherrington1965 Год назад

They really sold out then.😢

@savr1200gs Год назад

Totally agree always thought Rossi wanted to be a pop star not a rock star

@walkingtheboogie Год назад

It was Rick Parfitt who suggested Rockin' All Over the World song. As for being a pop band. Where they are pop band when the rurat formed around 1962?

@love-vy1ry Год назад

By the way another cover, it is John Fogerty (ex Creedence Clearwater Revival) song

@walkingtheboogie Год назад

@@love-vy1ry the first Quo album not to feature a cover was Dog of Two Head and the second Quo. Actually if You're Just What I Was Looking for Today was the first recording of the Gerry Goffin and Carole King written, then that would be the first album without covers.

@billybobkingston5604 Год назад

Rockin all over the world is still played in stadiums, especially football and everyone knows it

@BartNL-tx7ih Год назад

The man can talk🤗

@74quo Год назад

Waffle😂

@hardlines2635 Год назад

Typical BS from his era, I’m surprised he didn’t say he use to drive for the Kray Twins.

@alanstrom2221 Год назад

Yes, but he does contradict himself a lot. He told me that he didn't like the "Don't Stop" Covers album and that I shouldn't bother buying it. In this interview Francis says that QUO lost fans because of "RAOTWorld" yet I know that they gained a lot of new fans because of it. The fans they lost were the ones that hated "Marguerita Time" Alan Lancaster hated "Marguerita Time" so he left the Band. Compare "Big Fat Mama" with "Marguerita Time" and you'd have trouble believing it was the 'same' Band. Rossi destroyed STATUS QUO by selfishly indulging in his personal music tastes that didn't represent STATUS QUO or their loyal fans and supporters.

@rickpaul2504 Год назад

Totally loved this song, told a really good story.

@eddiecatflap3838 Год назад

bit like "Out in the fields" by Gary Moore and Phil Lynot . In the Army is such a good song,,, classic

@eightiesmusic1984 Год назад

@@eddiecatflap3838 Out In The Fields is incredible. It carried a real sense of tension and danger, still does really. Much overlooked from 1985.

@maximparamonov1266 10 месяцев назад

Не знаю как вы..Но мы ВАС ЛЮБИМ .Наша жизнь и ностальгия времени.С уважением к вам!

@yurkshirelad Год назад

I loved that song, still do.

@EastyyBlogspot Год назад

I always wondered what would have happened if they did more of the psychedelic type songs as i know after that phase they went a different direction which was still good ....but part of me would have liked to seen another song done in the style of the earlier phase

@BB-qp9ri Год назад

Me too

@j0hnf_uk Год назад

They did do a few songs in that genre, but you'd have to look to the first 2 albums to find them. 'Sunny Cellophane Skies', 'Technicolour Dreams', 'Mr. Mind Detector.' They really didn't see the point of continuing what was a fad that they just so happened to take advantage of having written songs that fit at the time. Certainly, by 1970, things had moved on and they wanted to play/record music which they felt they wanted to, rather than that which they were told would make them famous. The label they were with at the time weren't too happy with it, though, not giving their subsequent 2 LPs under their label any kind of promotion. It was only once their contract was up and they signed with Vertigo could they really pull out the stops and indulge in what they truly wanted to be.

@predictorleague8780 Год назад

Great song

@WesW3187 Год назад

I wonder why they lost so many fans when they released‘Rocking all over the world’, because I hated that song. It was soo light. Soo non-heavy. But I stayed a fan to this day, even though they’ve released some dodgy stuff from time to time.

@wirelessboogie Год назад

I suppose Francis might mean that the album Rockin All Over The World was the one that put off some fans, not the song. Its production and a number of songs on it terribly below Quo's standards (set very high by that time), like Baby Boy, Too Far Gone, You Don't Own Me... among the worst stuff ever released by the band, so it must have been a cold shower after such brilliant albums as On The Level and Blue For You.

@rudbel88 Год назад

Good to be diverse . Most of the top bands have diversified to survive . Wrong about Russia though. More freedom there than in so called democracy U.K.

@hellfirepictures Год назад

Bollox. Yeah, a Putin dictatorship where he's shut down social internet in most forms, where he locks up or murders the opposition and ANYBODY who disagrees with his decisions - that's your idea of freedom? Don't talk UTTER shite. You're a disgrace to the word democracy if you truly believe the nonsense you've spouted.

@garyproffitt5941 Год назад

Status que in the army now telepathic messages the late Mr. Parrot.

@TaxingIsThieving 5 месяцев назад

@mickbidewell6481 Год назад

Didn’t Quo find that song on a Buck’s Fizz album?

@pauljones9061 Год назад

I thought Pip Williams was the kiss of death for Quo, and the covers album embarrassing as for Rick saying I'll do anything you want, what a load of nonsense Rick John and Alan we're the engine of Quo, the other bloke got famous on the back of them. If In the Army were Quo's first single it would of sunk without trace.

@hellfirepictures Год назад

Do stop talking crap eh? The song would ALWAYS have done well because anyone who was in the military, had been in the military, and their families would have bought it. It may have no meaning for YOU but for tens of thousands of families in the UK alone it was a hugely important and popular song. As for Rossi getting famous off the back of the others - knock it off with the daftness simply because you don't like him. There would be no band without him. He was the face, the voice, the founding member, the guy that got the record contract, and wrote as many tracks as the others. Your definition of an 'engine' is straight up bizarre. And the fact that you're claiming Rick didn't say what he did and so you're calling Rossi a liar - as if you were somehow there and have first hand knowldge... just stop it.

@willforbes6373 Год назад

They became a cabaret act singing crap medlies. After Blue for You, they lost me.

@fcamsterdam8941 Год назад

And incidently sometimes a good song, Hold you back, Whatever you want and I do like 20 wild horses and just proposing

@martinwalsh8453 10 месяцев назад

I enjoy quo songs etc , but not a huge fan , that being said, I watched a series of interviews with Rick Parfitt and they were fantastic, really down to earth and coherent, when I see with Rossi being interviewed he seems off his nut on something 🙄,

@GlennPowell-ls3lg Год назад

Sadly Quo had completely lost the plot.I have seen them and fantastic but this was pure garbage sorry.

@68blues Год назад

Yep! When you walk in the room……superb!

@rustymackemingrancanaria6360 10 месяцев назад

Ok mr rossi heres what actually happened how you came to know ITAN .... back in the days.. bbc radio 1... every friday at 5.30 had a show called round table .. where the host dj ( kid jenson or mike read etc) along with usually 2 pop stars old or & new or someone well known in the biz etc..reviewed brand new songs about to be released in the UK.... Francis ( & rick? I couldnt swear it was both ) was on this particular show the night they played Bolland & Bolland's 1981? A&M release "in the army now. " . I don't remember what his exact thoughts were on the song but i think they agreed it might chart if it got enough airplay.. needless to say it didnt get anywhere near the airplay Quo's version got making it an enormous hit 4 years later.. clearly he or a cohort squirrelled it away to play to his chums in the band. ( WHY it took them so long to record it who knows? Label politics?? They were off their trollies and forgot about it ???😂)Bollands version is better in my opinion but i was pleased it had become a hit eventually cos it was an ear worm! ❤

@Videon01 Год назад

That was a real anthem in the Soviet army in 1987. But not in 1988 when Victor Tsoy's Kino emerged.

@rotty66 Год назад

Big Quo fan but ITAN was absolutely cringeworthy

@jamesjameson4566 Год назад

It's good

@TaxingIsThieving 5 месяцев назад

One of the best ever.

@marklion Год назад

I thought Rick found ITAN and presented it to Francis, and he was a bit reluctant to record it. Maybe Francis has it right?

@wirelessboogie Год назад

Rick found Rockin' All Over The World, and the band wasn't too keen on it first, pretty much like with ITAN.

@Glenrsi Год назад

Love Status Quo. But far preferred Bolland & Bolland version.

@simonmason8582 Год назад

Me to - I had their album, "The Domino Theory".

@jones1068 Год назад

It's not a bad song.

@chrisclarke7828 Год назад

They should have listened to more of the Bollands music before taking on 'Army', as a song it's just ok but such a big diversion from their stock stuff and not what their fans were used to, l knew about them listening to Dutch radio stations and heard 'UFO' that l thought was a good song, l got the single from Holland but it was not as good as l thought. One listen to it and 'Quo' may have thought it was worth a gamble but on putting 'Army' together they could have thought twice.

@wirelessboogie Год назад

Bollands also wrote Amadeus and Star for Suzie Quattro, a very good rocker. But rockers Quo never run out of.

@AndyMangele Год назад

What? He didn't find his way through the song? Geez - it's not exactly rocket science!

@sueperglue8847 Год назад

That's not what he says.

@AndyMangele Год назад

@@sueperglue8847 You're quite obviously not a musician.

@balticstain7150 Год назад

In the army was one of their worst hits. Roll over lay down Big fat mamma Mean girl Softer ride. All brilliant hits..

@hellfirepictures Год назад

In your opinion. Many of us would disagree.

@balticstain7150 6 месяцев назад

@hellfirepictures in the army wasn't quo style of music

@teddybear9029 Год назад

God knows why quo had too mention Uncle Sam in the song being a very British band for what was supposed to be targeted to a British audience, I mean it’s like zz top mentioning General Montgomery does the best he can?

@wirelessboogie Год назад

That's the original line by the Bolland brothers. In 2010 Quo did a re-recording of this song where they replaced the first lines with "You're on your way to a foreign land. Now's the time to do what you can"

@74quo Год назад

Rossi does this alot....waffle on and on about god knows what. Either that or hes on drugs 😂

@Sven_B_Good Год назад

In the army and Magerie time is the worst Quo songs ever...

@billybobkingston5604 Год назад

Was going to type that myself

@WesW3187 Год назад

Margurita time was terrible. I reckon it was exactly the music Francis Rossi wanted Quo to play. They only reason Quo were famous was the other three, and because Rossi towed the line and sang well. Alan Lancaster couldn’t stomach it and left.

@alyprow2055 Год назад

Rossi Williams destroyed the ff

@simonsimon325 Год назад

bit pissed?

@keithnaylor1981 Год назад

They only made two great songs: Pictures of Matchstick Men and Marguerita Time.

@richardgoldstein9799 7 месяцев назад

from aint complaining Quo were going downhill fast and lost a lot of fans -In the army and red sky were last of the best til they started on covers with the Beach Boys etc