22-12-2013, 15:57
CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:Status Quo have released upwards of 80 singles in their career,many of which were top10 hits in the UK/Australia(and other european countries....)
they were one of the most successful rock bands of the early/mid 1970s....
they arent what i'd call 'heavy metal'....moreso blues rock,similar to Humble Pie in a lot of ways
You have to remember that in the 70s, that WAS metal. Cheap Trick and Kiss (whom I actually saw live on the same bill once) were called metal back then. But I recall Status Quo being lumped in with the hard rock/metal set of that era (little of which would pass as metal now). But virtually none of it was played on American radio but I always saw their names in the various rock music zines and journals of the 70s so I knew they were doing something.