“We used to work with Fleetwood Mac a lot on the uni circuit. You could sit down beside the stage and they’d start playing - der-der, der-der - for an hour and a half. We wanted to do that”: Francis Rossi on how Status Quo developed their 12 bar boogie

Status Quo Performing in Hyde Park, 2001.

Status Quo have a reissue of the 1977 album Live! coming out and Francis Rossi has been talking to the Guardian about the band’s long career and the evolution of the Quo’s deceptively simple 12-bar boogie style.

Rossi has previously talked before about how hearing The Doors’ Roadhouse Blues was a turning point, but it seems that the shuffling Italian-style music he heard in his South London family home was also a factor.