Francis Rossi Status Quo - Quo Album, Colin Johnson, Down Down

[@markb5709]

I have always thought that Quo was their best album!

[@Cl4rendon]

I love listening to him. He is so hilariously funny. Notice also the „eagle glance“ he does when asked questions at 4:31 😂

[@Letsbikeit]

I worked for them and still like them...🙂

[@deanstanley5799]

Colin Johnson the absolute best manager they ever had

[@chasleask8533]

Francis is like an amiable gas fitter that you give a cuppa tea to and have a chat , before he goes on to his next job .

[@justsupposin4924]

Happy to be one of those 5 million!!

[@ShowRyuKen]

Thoroughly enjoyable - it must have been so entertaining to be in the room with Francis when he was doing this interview.

[@urbanfox53]

Had a few beers with Rossi back in the 70's at my mates flash wedding bash, great guy.

[@grahamyoung3433]

He must have been absolutely choking the Columbian marching powder back then.

[@josephbuckley5961]

​@@grahamyoung3433i think je started doing it in the early 80s he used to smoke dope in the 70s and weed so i doubt it

[@groovygregsmith]

Good old Francis the lord of Catford hokey pokey. 'Quo' is one of the best albums by Status Quo or anyone really.

[@susanslattery2301]

Ha ha love Francis ❤

[@mht525]

Quo ✌️🤘🥁🎸🇦🇺

[@Tim091]

An amiable geezer, although sometimes with an acid tongue, but there are large sections where you really have no idea what he is talking about! It makes sense in his head but not by the time it comes out of his mouth! Legend.

[@pauljones9061]

The Quo album provided some of the greatest live tracks, Rossi was glad of the succes of the album though

[@DarkKnight-ys1yg]

Make this guy prime minister

[@gglendinningok]

Quality & I'm also a gemini:)

[@stephengreen6338]

My mam use to say I could talk all day, and say absolutely nothing, Francis like me just witters on, and on, and on, and on, deeper down, down, down...

[@mrmitch5054]

The Oriental is my wife's ringtone on her phone

[@michaelrosendahl5770]

I think that the strength of Quo comes from that Rossi is leaning more towards pop, and Rick and Allan liked more harder stuff. That makes it interesting. Take Blue Eyed Lady for example: A very hard rock song but with a relatively soft and melodic vocal. It fits perfectly.

[@urbanfox53]

I think Sir Francis Rossi is well over due for his contribution to pop music.

[@chriscampbell9191]

Sounds like Down Down had a little more meaning to it lyrically than it seemed at first.

[@ethanblackhurst8593]

He's a hard listen at times.

[@MrMaharg65]

His head’s full of broken bottles 😂 Is this him before or after he quit the drugs

[@renatoporcu3097]

1️⃣9️⃣🪄1️⃣1️⃣🪄2️⃣4️⃣ ROMA

[@MrHammoreds]

Not sure if it's a bit of 'professional jealousy' talking or just genuine personal dislike, but when Francis seems to 'write-off' the Quo album as a somewhat laughable heavy album, he is forgetting that loads of the old Quo-Army loved its light and shade. Break the Rules, Fine Fine Fine and Lonely Man are not teeth-clenching heavy rock tracks, but they work perfectly alongside what was their heaviest studio material on the rest of the album. The album is a masterpiece. They lost the 'light and shade' as they became more pop than rock, and that's what saw off a good propotion of the Quo Army. I know that Francis knows that, and I know that he doesn't care.

[@paulmoules4133]

Francis almost named dropped Mickey Jupp @ 5.50

[@walkingtheboogie]

Well spotted

[@colinrgage]

God almighty he gets on my nerves

[@pauljones9061]

He resents the music that made him famous, if Marquerita time had been their first single you'de never of heard of them.

[@walkingtheboogie]

Will you be putting up any of the interviews Alan did? I appreciate Pete Kircher wasn't interviewed as he wouldn't have wanted to be.

[@WesW3187]

I’m so glad the internet wasn’t around back then. We would have had the Quo album come out with all of Francis’ camp innuendo and negative thinking. Instead we got a marvellous Quo album which means a lot to me. I’m going to stop listening to Francis. He was a boy who got mixed up with a few actual rockers, and couldn’t see his way out, until later when he took over the band and forced them to play softer rock. He still can’t forgive Rick and Alan for growing as musicians and people, and not staying the way they were when he first met them 50, 60 years ago. Francis you really are the odd one out. You’re the one who was playing music he didn’t like. I’m just glad I didn’t know it at the time.

[@chriscampbell9191]

But if he didn't really like the music on the harder hitting, early to mid 70's albums, he sure gave it an edge with his guitar playing and vocal delivery.

[@fromthemakersof5529]

I bet he’s gutted that you’re going to stop listening to him.

[@WesW3187]

@@fromthemakersof5529 I bet he is 😂😂.

[@electroman65]

Francis Rossi is a walking definition of ADHD..and no wonder, I follow him on every tangent 🤣🤣🤣

[@anthonycurran362]

Ross, STOP mentioning the 3 chord thing....its bullshit. Sweet home Alabama... 3 chords. The band was the greatest ever... Pop and rock... Just a shame you didn't stay and fight it out in the US. And a shame the sherbet got a little out of hand🙏

[@jamesabbot-cole6814]

He'll stop mentioning it when everyone stops asking him about it. Though to be fair he does say everyone likes what they like so it's not like he's dissing people for liking it just that they keep asking him about it.

[@richardlloyd166]

‘Rick is a cabaret star’ Rossi was just jealous of Rick. His look and his persona.

[@sueperglue8847]

Well, before Rick joined what later became Status Quo he was a cabaret star with the Highlights. That was Rick's background. And Francis is right about Rick's voice, he had a lovely voice but in the end his voice was shot. Francis kept his voice. It became lower but that's what age does to a voice.

[@richardlloyd166]

@@sueperglue8847yeah I know Rick’s background however Rossi clearly intended it as a slur. Quo were a rock band and Rick was a rock guitarist / vocalist. Rossi never misses an opportunity to knock Rick or Alan.

[@Lloyd1885]

Agree, I've always found Rick a lot more sincere, and interesting to listen to

[@motr1912]

Not sure he was putting him or Alan down at all but that's just my perception. 12 years since this recorded and seems a lifetime ago.

[@sueperglue8847]

@@richardlloyd166 He's not knocking down Rick, he just gives his opinion.

[@adrianr9307]

He talks in non stop ranting circles.

[@DAMIANWHITE-z2b]

Yes he does. Compare this to the relaxed, down to earth interviews with Rick Parfitt. Two minutes of Francis Rossi and I have a headache.

[@adrianr9307]

@DAMIANWHITE-z2b I miss Rick and Alan and hope John is in good health and spirits.

[@twelve-t4c]

i think hes a nervous twitchy guy so tries to be funny a lot .which sound strange for somone so in the limelight ...on this particularly awkward interview he comes across as quite creepy at times . in contrast to say paul mcartney who always bigs up the contribution the other beatles made to their classic output and speaks about those records with great pride . francis seems almost like .. those swines made me play that nasty macho heavy rock against my will but i just wanted to be in bucks fizz .. why he cant just admit those classic quo records were great and acknowledge the parts played by them all . ive never once heard him mention how great alan john and rick played on them .as did indeed francis . plus those 70s records wernt all heavy rock not by a long chalk . ballads and country stuff softer blues ,it wasnt cheesy lite corny cringey pop the recorded output after alan left was mostly embarrassing . hero to zero for me francis like .