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The recently launched YouTube channel from iconic US TV series The Midnight Special continues to post footage that hasn’t been seen in decades, and Status Quo are the latest beneficiaries.
The most recent clip to appear on the channel features the Frantic Four playing Big Fat Mama, and is taken from the show broadcast on April 19, 1974. It’s an unusual choice: the track wasn’t from the band’s current album, the previous year’s Hello. Nor was it a preview of material from Quo, which would released the following month. Instead, the band played a live favourite from 1972’s Piledriver.
We’ll probably never know why this track (the only one they played on the show) was chosen. Rick Parfitt’s voice is largely shot, and Francis Rossi’s guitar solo certainly isn’t his best, but when it all comes together – as it does at the 2’50” mark – it’s a vivid reminder of how powerful Status Quo could be.
Quo’s episode was hosted by soul legend Curtis Mayfield – who performed four songs – while the other performers included two more soul acts in The Impressions and Gladys Knight & The Pips, plus folk musician Phil Ochs and Green Eyed Lady hitmakers Sugarloaf.
Status Quo would return to the US in August 1974, playing a mix of small club gigs and larger shows, sharing the stage with the likes of Montrose, Rory Gallagher, Todd Rundgren, Little Feat and Sly & the Family Stone.
Other artists who performed on The Midnight Special – whose appearances will presumably become available over the coming months – include Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Kiss, Elton John, AC/DC, Badfinger, The Cars, Cheap Trick, Peter Frampton, Genesis, Heart, Little Feat, Prince, Roxy Music, Steely Dan, Thin Lizzy and ELO
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- Status Quo - Hello! + Inner - UK - vinyl LP - £15.00, $19.65, €17.70 (Back In Stock) (arrived 12-Sep-2024 07:34)on September 16, 2024 at 6:25 pm
STATUS QUO Hello! (1973 UK 8-track LP on the Vertigo 'Spaceship' label, complete with lyric inner, silver embossed picture sleeve. The sleeve shows just a little light shelf/edgewear to the front and a little creasing whilst the vinyl remainsin excellent condition displaying light signs of play)
- Status Quo - Rocking All Over The Years - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £15.00, $19.65, €17.70 (New Item) (arrived 05-Sep-2024 12:10)on September 16, 2024 at 6:25 pm
STATUS QUO Rocking All Over The Years (1990 UK 22-track double LP compilation, covering the period 1965-1990 & featuring all their Top Ten hits including Pictures Of Matchstick Men, Down Down & The Wanderer, gatefold picture sleeve. The sleeveshows some edge and shelfwear whilst the vinyl is Excellent with just faint signs of play)
- Status Quo - Monsters Of Rock 1982 - UK - tour programme - £25.00, $32.75, €29.50 (New Item) (arrived 26-Aug-2024 13:39)on September 16, 2024 at 6:25 pm
STATUS QUO / HAWKWIND / SAXON / GILLAN / URIAH HEEP / ANVIL Monsters Of Rock (1982 UK official 13" x 10" 32-page full colour programme for the event held at Donington Park & compered by Tommy Vance. The programme is packed with information, photographs, biographies & even tour dates of the bands appearing with a great skull headed vampire demon cover [what else!])
- Status Quo - End Of The Road - UK - tour programme - £15.00, $19.65, €17.70 (New Item) (arrived 26-Aug-2024 14:07)on September 16, 2024 at 6:25 pm
STATUS QUO End Of The Road (Official 1984 UK 36-page 11" x 13" programme issued during their extensive UK & European tour, packed with superb photographs and illustrations of the band, information, quotes, discography and tour dates, completewith fantastic textured 'denim' picture cover)
- Status Quo - 12 Gold Bars - Greek - vinyl LP - £15.00, $19.65, €17.70 (New Item) (arrived 02-Sep-2024 09:12)on September 16, 2024 at 6:25 pm
STATUS QUO 12 Gold Bars (1980 Greek 12-track vinyl compilation LP on the 'spaceship' Vertigo label, featuring a collection of their classic hits such as Rockin' All Over The World, Down Down, Whatever You Want and more. The picture sleeve hasa little shelfwear to the edges while the vinyl looks barely played)
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