History Music / StatusQuo

* StatusQuoIsGod: Potential [[IncrediblyLamePun bad puns]] aside, they've essentially been playing the same style for more than forty years, and any deviations from it don't last very long.

After brief flirtations with ProgressiveRock and PsychedelicRock yielded little success, Quo hit on the formula that's defined their sound to this day with the 1970 album ''Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon'', the first to feature their [[ThreeChordsAndTheTruth straightforward, no frills]], [[BluesRock blues-based]] boogie rock style powered by Rossi and Parfitt's dual Telecasters.

* ExcitedShowTitle: Three of their albums have this - ''Hello!'', ''Live!'' and ''Bula Quo!''

So far, in a career spanning more than 50 years, Quo have recorded 64 hit singles, with 22 of them making it into the Top Ten. They passed the 100 singles mark in 2013 with "Bula Bula Quo". They have spent more 415 weeks in the British Singles Chart, made 106 appearances on Series/TopOfThePops (more than any other band), had 33 albums in the British Albums Chart (second only to Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} in terms of quantity), and Prince Charles is known to be a fan - not many bands can say that now, can they?

After brief flirtations with ProgressiveRock and PsychedelicRock yielded little success, Quo hit on the formula that's sustained them for the past forty years with the 1970 album ''Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon'', the first to feature their [[ThreeChordsAndTheTruth straightforward, no frills]], [[BluesRock blues-based]] boogie rock style powered by Rossi and Parfitt's dual Telecasters.

* IronicName: "Rock 'n' Roll" is a slow SoftRock ballad.

** Sanguine: Francis Rossi, who is cheerful and charismatic.

** Melancholic: Rick Parfitt, who had several issues with drug addiction, even more than the others.

So far, in a career spanning more than 50 years, Quo have recorded 64 hit singles, with 22 of them making it into the Top Ten. They passed the 100 singles mark in 2013 with "Bula Bula Quo". They have spent more 415 weeks in the British Singles Chart, made 106 appearances on Series/TopOfThePops (more than any other band), had 33 albums in the British Albums Chart (second only to Music/TheRollingStones in terms of quantity), and Prince Charles is known to be a fan - not many bands can say that now, can they?

** ''Hello'' ends with "Forty-Five Hundred Times" (9:58). Live versions of this song go on for even longer, [[UpToEleven sometimes lasting for around twenty minutes]].

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: The majority of their music exists on the 5-6 region of the scale, and harder-rocking albums like ''Piledriver'' or ''Quo'' are firmly on level 6, occasionally reaching level 7 with some songs.

* AuthorAppeal: Rossi’s love of country music means that band will record a country-flavoured track every now and then (such as “Marguerita Time”, “Invitation” or “Blessed are the Meek”) — or, in the case of “Wild Side of Life”, cover one.

* BigDamnMovie: ''Bula Quo!'', a comedy crime caper in which Rossi and Parfitt ([[AsHimself as themselves]]) find themselves on the run from black market organ traffickers in Fiji. Quo fans generally consider it to be either SoBadItsGood or just bad.