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What did Francis Rossi think of IN THE ARMY NOW one of Status Quo's biggest hits
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- Опубликовано: 11 авг 2023
- Status Quo are one of the most successful rock bands in British chart history! With more than 60 top 40 hits and 25 top 10 albums, Francis Rossi and the band became a British institution with a career spanning 6 decades! Following their appearance at Live Aid, Status Quo returned with a new album and a song that would go on to top the charts all over Europe and become an anthem for a generation. In The Army now was originally written and released by Bolland and Bolland, but Francis Rossi heard it on Casey Kasems American Top 40 countdown and set about trying to persuade his bandmates to record it. As he says "it would either be a massive hit, or a resounding flop". A massive hit it proved to be! In The Army Now went on to be the number 1 song in countries right across Europe and vindicated Francis Rossi's decision and faith in the tune.
In this video he tells the story of how he first heard it and the effort it took to convince the band to record it. He also talks about the difficulties of playing it live and how his bass player has to help him out on stage!
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Quo for me will always be early 70s. Their version of Roadhouse Blues is one of the best covers ever.
I was privileged to have been in the video as a Army soilder!
1970's Quo were awesome. Quo Live is one of the best live albums ever.
All gold to me. Quo was the soundtrack of my household 70s and 80s
I got the Bolland and Bolland album "The Domino Theory" as I loved Dutch music after listening to the pirates on the North Sea.
Your dad would of loved N. Ireland...never a dull moment in the 70's\80's
In the Army Now, Red Sky, and an Ian Hunter song (Speechless) - I just had to get that album, which got a good review in Kerrang ("I'm glad to have this album in my potting-shed", wrote the journo). I know the Quo Army are a bit ambivalent about the mid/late-'80s Quo, but outsiders like me really enjoyed that era.
That song takes me back to playing the pubs and clubs in a covers band.
Не знаю как вы..Но мы ВАС ЛЮБИМ .Наша жизнь и ностальгия времени.С уважением к вам!
The man can talk🤗
Waffle😂
Typical BS from his era, I’m surprised he didn’t say he use to drive for the Kray Twins.
Yes, but he does contradict himself a lot.
He told me that he didn't like the "Don't Stop" Covers album and that I shouldn't bother buying it.
In this interview Francis says that QUO lost fans because of "RAOTWorld"
yet I know that they gained a lot of new fans because of it.
The fans they lost were the ones that hated "Marguerita Time"
Alan Lancaster hated "Marguerita Time" so he left the Band.
Compare "Big Fat Mama" with "Marguerita Time" and you'd have trouble believing it was the 'same' Band.
Rossi destroyed STATUS QUO by selfishly indulging in his personal music tastes that didn't represent STATUS QUO or their loyal fans and supporters.
Compare In the army now with Roll Over Lay Down, which one was Status Quo? I believe Rocking all over the world is when Quo turned into a (or returned to being a) pop band
They really sold out then.😢
Totally agree always thought Rossi wanted to be a pop star not a rock star
It was Rick Parfitt who suggested Rockin' All Over the World song.
As for being a pop band. Where they are pop band when the rurat formed around 1962?
By the way another cover, it is John Fogerty (ex Creedence Clearwater Revival) song
@@love-vy1ry the first Quo album not to feature a cover was Dog of Two Head and the second Quo.
Actually if You're Just What I Was Looking for Today was the first recording of the Gerry Goffin and Carole King written, then that would be the first album without covers.
Totally loved this song, told a really good story.
bit like "Out in the fields" by Gary Moore and Phil Lynot . In the Army is such a good song,,, classic
@@eddiecatflap3838 Out In The Fields is incredible. It carried a real sense of tension and danger, still does really. Much overlooked from 1985.
Rockin all over the world is still played in stadiums, especially football and everyone knows it
Great song
I always wondered what would have happened if they did more of the psychedelic type songs as i know after that phase they went a different direction which was still good ....but part of me would have liked to seen another song done in the style of the earlier phase
Me too
They did do a few songs in that genre, but you'd have to look to the first 2 albums to find them. 'Sunny Cellophane Skies', 'Technicolour Dreams', 'Mr. Mind Detector.'
They really didn't see the point of continuing what was a fad that they just so happened to take advantage of having written songs that fit at the time. Certainly, by 1970, things had moved on and they wanted to play/record music which they felt they wanted to, rather than that which they were told would make them famous. The label they were with at the time weren't too happy with it, though, not giving their subsequent 2 LPs under their label any kind of promotion. It was only once their contract was up and they signed with Vertigo could they really pull out the stops and indulge in what they truly wanted to be.
I loved that song, still do.
Didn’t Quo find that song on a Buck’s Fizz album?
Francis told me that he didn't like the "Don't Stop" Covers album and that I shouldn't bother buying it.
In this interview Francis says that QUO lost fans because of "RAOTWorld"
yet I know that they gained a lot of new fans because of it.
The fans they lost were the ones that hated "Marguerita Time"
Alan Lancaster hated "Marguerita Time" so he left the Band.
Compare "Big Fat Mama" with "Marguerita Time" and you'd have trouble believing it was the 'same' Band.
Rossi destroyed STATUS QUO by selfishly indulging in his personal music tastes that didn't represent STATUS QUO or their loyal fans and supporters.
Status que in the army now telepathic messages the late Mr. Parrot.
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I wonder why they lost so many fans when they released‘Rocking all over the world’, because I hated that song. It was soo light. Soo non-heavy. But I stayed a fan to this day, even though they’ve released some dodgy stuff from time to time.
I suppose Francis might mean that the album Rockin All Over The World was the one that put off some fans, not the song. Its production and a number of songs on it terribly below Quo's standards (set very high by that time), like Baby Boy, Too Far Gone, You Don't Own Me... among the worst stuff ever released by the band, so it must have been a cold shower after such brilliant albums as On The Level and Blue For You.
That was a real anthem in the Soviet army in 1987. But not in 1988 when Victor Tsoy's Kino emerged.
Ok mr rossi heres what actually happened how you came to know ITAN .... back in the days.. bbc radio 1... every friday at 5.30 had a show called round table .. where the host dj ( kid jenson or mike read etc) along with usually 2 pop stars old or & new or someone well known in the biz etc..reviewed brand new songs about to be released in the UK.... Francis ( & rick? I couldnt swear it was both ) was on this particular show the night they played Bolland & Bolland's 1981? A&M release "in the army now. " . I don't remember what his exact thoughts were on the song but i think they agreed it might chart if it got enough airplay.. needless to say it didnt get anywhere near the airplay Quo's version got making it an enormous hit 4 years later.. clearly he or a cohort squirrelled it away to play to his chums in the band. ( WHY it took them so long to record it who knows? Label politics?? They were off their trollies and forgot about it ???😂)Bollands version is better in my opinion but i was pleased it had become a hit eventually cos it was an ear worm! ❤
I enjoy quo songs etc , but not a huge fan , that being said, I watched a series of interviews with Rick Parfitt and they were fantastic, really down to earth and coherent, when I see with Rossi being interviewed he seems off his nut on something 🙄,
Yep! When you walk in the room……superb!
I thought Rick found ITAN and presented it to Francis, and he was a bit reluctant to record it. Maybe Francis has it right?
Rick found Rockin' All Over The World, and the band wasn't too keen on it first, pretty much like with ITAN.
Good to be diverse . Most of the top bands have diversified to survive . Wrong about Russia though. More freedom there than in so called democracy U.K.
Bollox. Yeah, a Putin dictatorship where he's shut down social internet in most forms, where he locks up or murders the opposition and ANYBODY who disagrees with his decisions - that's your idea of freedom? Don't talk UTTER shite. You're a disgrace to the word democracy if you truly believe the nonsense you've spouted.
It's not a bad song.
They should have listened to more of the Bollands music before taking on 'Army', as a song it's just ok but such a big diversion from their stock stuff and not what their fans were used to, l knew about them listening to Dutch radio stations and heard 'UFO' that l thought was a good song, l got the single from Holland but it was not as good as l thought. One listen to it and 'Quo' may have thought it was worth a gamble but on putting 'Army' together they could have thought twice.
Bollands also wrote Amadeus and Star for Suzie Quattro, a very good rocker. But rockers Quo never run out of.
I thought Pip Williams was the kiss of death for Quo, and the covers album embarrassing as for Rick saying I'll do anything you want, what a load of nonsense Rick John and Alan we're the engine of Quo, the other bloke got famous on the back of them.
If In the Army were Quo's first single it would of sunk without trace.
Do stop talking crap eh? The song would ALWAYS have done well because anyone who was in the military, had been in the military, and their families would have bought it. It may have no meaning for YOU but for tens of thousands of families in the UK alone it was a hugely important and popular song.
As for Rossi getting famous off the back of the others - knock it off with the daftness simply because you don't like him. There would be no band without him. He was the face, the voice, the founding member, the guy that got the record contract, and wrote as many tracks as the others. Your definition of an 'engine' is straight up bizarre.
And the fact that you're claiming Rick didn't say what he did and so you're calling Rossi a liar - as if you were somehow there and have first hand knowldge... just stop it.
God knows why quo had too mention Uncle Sam in the song being a very British band for what was supposed to be targeted to a British audience, I mean it’s like zz top mentioning General Montgomery does the best he can?
That's the original line by the Bolland brothers. In 2010 Quo did a re-recording of this song where they replaced the first lines with "You're on your way to a foreign land. Now's the time to do what you can"
Sadly Quo had completely lost the plot.I have seen them and fantastic but this was pure garbage sorry.
bit pissed?
Love Status Quo. But far preferred Bolland & Bolland version.
Me to - I had their album, "The Domino Theory".
What? He didn't find his way through the song? Geez - it's not exactly rocket science!
That's not what he says.
@@sueperglue8847 You're quite obviously not a musician.
Rossi Williams destroyed the ff
Big Quo fan but ITAN was absolutely cringeworthy
It's good
One of the best ever.
They became a cabaret act singing crap medlies. After Blue for You, they lost me.
And incidently sometimes a good song, Hold you back, Whatever you want and I do like 20 wild horses and just proposing
In the army was one of their worst hits.
Roll over lay down
Big fat mamma
Mean girl
Softer ride.
All brilliant hits..
In your opinion. Many of us would disagree.
@hellfirepictures in the army wasn't quo style of music
Rossi does this alot....waffle on and on about god knows what.
Either that or hes on drugs 😂
from aint complaining Quo were going downhill fast and lost a lot of fans -In the army and red sky were last of the best til they started on covers with the Beach Boys etc
They only made two great songs: Pictures of Matchstick Men and Marguerita Time.
I saw Quo in Derry in '88 ... they didn't play that song ha ha!
In the army and Magerie time is the worst Quo songs ever...
Was going to type that myself
Margurita time was terrible. I reckon it was exactly the music Francis Rossi wanted Quo to play. They only reason Quo were famous was the other three, and because Rossi towed the line and sang well. Alan Lancaster couldn’t stomach it and left.
bloody talking, sorry...
Awful song.
Worst song they ever did
Surely that belongs to Margarita time 😖
You don’t like fun do you
@@Black.Sabbath how is that fun.
You lost lots of fans cos you ruined quo,
No quo fan would use the word NONSENSE 🤣
Time to fade away griping old that
Well, he did turn a fine honest rock band into a country and western club .........
All long lasting bands evolve, band members and song styles change over the years.
If you lose fans because ‘you’ don’t like a song those’fans’ are not wanted, good riddance!..
Not only the worst song Quo ever did but one of the worst dismal songs ever created,the Quo lost my respect when this song came out😡😡IN MY OPINION