Status Quo Heavy

After the turn toward a more accessible sound that Rockin' All Over the World supposed, the British band returned to its hard rock approach on its next work. If You Can't Stand the Heat isn't so hard and heavy as Quo or Blue for You, but it incorporates subjects – the electric guitars filling everywhere again, the groovy boogie spirit – that recover the rocking essence they seem to have lost only one year before…

Released in March 1976, Status Quo's ninth album was, depending upon how one viewed the last six years of relentless boogie, either the last of the band's "classic" LPs or the first step toward absolute household name-dom that the group has enjoyed ever since…

Status Quo 'One And Only' contains rare and previously unreleased material charting the band's history from their early blues roots (as seen in 1970's Doing Their Thing) up to the current line-up in 2002's The One & Only Status Quo, a TV special featuring the band playing live to a specially invited audience and interspersed with interviews with the band. Also included is a 1982 German concert filmed for TV and the 2000 special Top Of The Pops 2, made to celebrate Quo's status as the act that had appeared on TOTP the most. The show includes archive performances, specially filmed performances and interviews with Rick and Francis.

Status Quo are one of Britain's longest-lived bands, staying together for over six decades. During much of that time, the band was only successful in the U.K., where it racked up a string of Top Ten singles across the decades. In America, the Quo were ignored after they abandoned psychedelia for heavy boogie rock in the early '70s. Before that, the band managed to reach number 12 in the U.S. with the psychedelic classic "Pictures of Matchstick Men" (a Top Ten hit in the U.K.). Following that single, the band suffered a lean period for the next few years, before the bandmembers decided to refashion themselves as a hard rock boogie band in 1970 with their Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon album. The Quo have basically recycled the same simple boogie on each successive album and single, yet their popularity has never waned in Britain. If anything, their very predictability has ensured the group a large following.

There really is no need to introduce a band such as Status Quo. They have sold more than 118 million records, received countless gold awards and top 10 singles, played over 6000 shows together and spent 23 years away from home on tour to rock around the world. With all that success Status Quo have always remained a very down to earth and sympathetic band. Now after more than half a century of existence, they are still THE convincing live band they have always been known for. The “Down Down” live series comes in two versions. Down Down & Dirty At Wacken is a wild & electrifying performance recorded in front of 70.000 wild Heavy Metal Fans at the world famous “Wacken Open Air 2017”. The counterpart Down Down & Dignified At The Royal Albert Hall is an acoustic set, recorded in London's concert flagship, the “Royal Albert Hall” which absolutely lives up to its name.