“Everybody used to say how great Clapton was, but I remember saying to Eric, ‘You try playing that one riff for eight minutes!’”: How rock legends Status Quo stole a riff from The Doors and built an entire career out of it

Status Quo.

Way back in 1970, during a long night of drinking at a club in the German city of Bielefeld, the two guitarists in British rock band Status Quo heard a song that would change their lives.

Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt had already begun to reshape Quo’s sound, moving away from the psychedelic pop of their hit single Pictures Of Matchstick Men to embrace a harder rock direction on their third album Ma Kelly’s Greasy Spoon.