Status Quo - Alan & Francis Back In South London 2011

[@thomaskemp904]

R.i.p Alan, what a lovely guy

[@AndrewBowles-x8u]

This was just fantastic to watch!

[@Isleofskye]

I saw Quo 5 times in 1972/73, 4 gigs @ Croydon Greyhound, South East London where they were the first to charge the 3,000 crowd £1 for the gig, and once @ The Orchid, Purley where 1/.2 the audience came for Quo, and the other half for Slade. At one Croydon gig they played 5 encores including a 7 part medley while "paying their dues" lol

[@ChrisLee-1]

The first song they did that Francis was looking for was Sweets for my Sweet. Jess recorded on his reel to reel tape recorder. I went to school with them and used to go round to Jess's house to watch them rehearse. They were The Spectres then.

[@Ragsytheriffer]

just awesome .....................old friends

[@zamiadams4343]

Great footage with Francis and Alan!

[@andyjames8612]

I used to work on that estate at the beginning of the video. It’s the Acorn Estate in Peckham, quite notorious back in the 80’s but had a good community feel to it despite its reputation

[@rayrudge8471]

Nice to see this brilliant !

[@leechilds3725]

Great, thanks for this !

[@aorticmonkey]

What a great little video..cheers for the upload.

[@andydixon2980]

Most bands will tell you their best memories are their early gigs when they were finding their feet, before fame. Special time when you're young and ambitious.

[@dougross-s4r]

Im going to cry too mate

[@as3cs3]

am glad this is back on as I saw it years ago then it vanished

[@karenmiller319]

This is a good laugh, thanks for the upload

[@dougross-s4r]

Nice reminiscing brothers so great it is when older people once said time waits on no one and time goes by fast no kidding ah boys and which fellow alan passed

[@richardkeeler2347]

Brilliant

[@berniebolder8939]

This is great, just bought a land rover for country trips, I only play Quo in that car, just Quo, my wife thinks I've lost it 🙃

[@as3cs3]

big guy with the Skull & Crossbones Beanie is a huge Stiff Little Fingers fan. Alan something

[@JohnHill-f2n]

What do you mean edit it out,you kicked 7 kinds of sh-t out of him 😂😂

[@richardkalergi4347]

You can tell Alan has heard all Francis' banter before 😅😅😅

[@AFaceintheCrowd01]

Me mum would’ve been like that with me if I’d been a success.

[@seancook1965]

Great that they settled the differences which lead to the band splitting up.

[@Lytton333]

Real sarf Lahdaners.. Lil was great.

[@alexleary6183]

Alan and francis went to school together.

[@quoman2232]

Sedgehill school in Catford south London.

[@PrivateWalker]

He did the dirty on Alan right after Live Aid

[@as3cs3]

"Kiss" 🤣

[@as3cs3]

they should have chapped the door of Jess's old place to let the ppl know who they were in the presence of

[@as3cs3]

great stories but they go past them too quick 😅

[@fritzthedog007]

Very good. Is there any more?

[@K.Straughan]

Status Quo.

[@sergefernandez3395]

2 copains d'enfance qui ont monté un groupe puis l'un deux s'est fait virer du groupe par son ami d'enfance 😢. J'ai beaucoup d'administration pour franck rossi mais je trouve ce qu'il a fait c'est vraiment degeulasse😢

[@philipbonner6486]

I agree with you two but they remained friends, which is a good thing.

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

Actually they didn’t remained friends. They didn’t speak for many years before they finally cleaned up the air and found back together as mates.

[@markhattley2032]

Beckenham

[@deanstanley5799]

Alan looked frozen

[@silversteel6312]

How arrogant of Alan to remain seated during the entirety of the video…

[@AFaceintheCrowd01]

I get it. You’re making fun of his height.