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Remembering Rick and Status Quo – the John Coghlan interview
In the BBC documentary Hello Quo, there’s revealing footage of a jam session at Shepperton Studios featuring the original members of Status Quo, for the first time since drummer John Coghlan left 31 years earlier. That 2012 meeting led to … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music
Tagged Alan G. Parker, Alan Lancaster, Andy Bown, Bob Young, Diesel, Dulwich, Eric Clapton, Francis Rossi, Half Moon Putney, Hello Quo, Jackie Lynton, JCQ, John Coghlan, Oxfordshire, Pictures of Matchstick Men, Preston, Rick Parfitt, Shepperton Studios, Status Quo, The Rockers, the Spectres, Woking
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Into 2016 … and 103,000 hits can’t be bad
As the hands reached midnight on New Year’s Eve, the minions behind the scenes at writewyattuk.com polished off the last of the Irish cream (explaining at least one of those empty bottles that next morning) and got to work on … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Comedy & Theatre, Music
Tagged Alan Davies, Bill Bailey, Buzzcocks, Cast, Dodgy, Dubious Brothers, Echo and the Bunnymen, Elkie Brooks, Graeme Garden, Gretchen Peters, Happy Mondays, Heaven 17, Ian McNabb, Julian Cope, Mark Radcliffe, Martha reeves, Midge Ure, Mike Harding, Noel Fielding, Public Service Broadcasting, Rick Wakeman, Slade, Smoke Fairies, Squeeze, Status Quo, The Chameleons, The Jam, The Rolling Stones, The Stranglers, The Undertones, Tom Robinson, Wolf Alice
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Status Quo – Symphony at the Tower, Hoghton
The forecasts hinted we might be in for a downpour at Hoghton Tower on Friday night, and the clouds were looming as we waited for the main act. But by the time the mighty Quo were belting out 1976 hit … Continue reading
Rollin’ Home with the Quo – the Francis Rossi interview
When you phone a rock’n’roll legend, you don’t expect him to answer within two rings and launch straight into a breezy rendition of a classic from Singin’ in the Rain. “Good morning, good morning!” What’s more, that vast Status Quo … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Bown, Aqoustic, Bill Bryson, Bob Geldof, Crosby, Forest Hill, Francis Rossi, Hoghton Tower, John 'Rhino' Edwards, Leon Cave, Live Aid, Lucy Kay, oil pulling, Purley, Rick Parfitt, St Catherine's Hospice, Star Trek, Status Quo, The Stranglers
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Lancashire daytrippers’ Tower of strength – the New York Tourists interview
In the build-up to next week’s Symphony at the Tower concerts, the team at writewyattuk (OK, so that’s just me) follow this blog’s recent feature/ interview with Lucy Kay, a rising star on the classical crossover scene, by talking to an … Continue reading
