The Latest Breaking News from Francis Rossi

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Status Quo have come to the end of the road: Now where have we read that before?

Louder · Aug 26, 2024

"I just can't see us doing it one more time": 40 years after their End Of The Road tour, Status Quo may finally be nearing the end of the road

In other news, Francis Rossi has announced an extensive solo tour

Louder · Jun 24, 2024

The new issue of Classic Rock is an AC/DC 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition

Also in this issue: Heart, Black Country Communion, Allman Brothers, Ian Hunter, Manic Street Preachers, ELP, Black Crowes, Anvil, Marcus King, Lindisfarne, Lemon Twigs, Mitch Ryder and more

Louder · Jun 21, 2024

"We'd sit surrounded by amps. The magic just flowed. It gave you goose-pimples": How Status Quo made Hello! and turned into Britain's hottest band of 1973

Sometimes, a band works on an album and everything clicks. For Status Quo, their 1973 No.1 Hello! was just such an album. But that doesn’t mean there weren’t problems

Louder · Jan 1, 2024

"Some people said that seeing the band again made their lives complete": Remembering Status Quo's Rick Parfitt

A personal look back at the music, life and times of Status Quo guitarist/singer and cornerstone Rick Parfitt, who died on Christmas Eve 2016

Louder · Dec 24, 2023

The Kemps: All Gold — release date, cast, plot, interview and everything we know

The Kemps: All Gold sees Gary and Martin Kemp send themselves up again in a follow-up to the 2020 spoof documentary The Kemps: All True.

WhatToWatch · Dec 21, 2023

“Certain people might think that – the type of person that wears only denim, has a lot of tattoos and doesn’t wash”: meet the man who ‘ruined’ Status Quo

Andy Bown has played keyboards with Status Quo for 50 years and has been with them through some tough times. But some fans still won’t forgive him for ‘ruining’ the band

Louder · Nov 4, 2023

Status Quo legend Francis Rossi signs guitar for charity auction at Bristol gig

Funds will go to children’s charity Variety for a new ‘sunshine minibus’

Bristol Post · Jun 5, 2023

Bonnie Tyler: the soundtrack of my life

Power-ballad belter Bonnie Tyler picks her records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals that Axl Rose was "horny as hell"

Louder · May 29, 2023

The British Invasion that failed: why Slade, Status Quo, the Sweet and Dr. Feelgood never conquered the USA

Slade’s Noddy Holder and Jim Lea join Status Quo’s Francis Rossi, the Sweet’s Andy Scott and Dr. Feelgood’s Wilko Johnson (in one of his final interviews) to explain what did – and didn’t – go down in the ’70s

Guitar World · May 3, 2023