''Rock 'til You Drop'' is the twentieth studio album by English
rock band
Status Quo and their last on the
Vertigo
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label after nearly 20 years. Singer and guitarist
Francis Rossi produced the album.
"Rossi is particularly fond of 1991's ''Rock 'til You Drop''," reported ''
Classic Rock
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'' a decade later. "
'' ' Parfitt">uitarist Rick' Parfitt hates the record."
The album closes with a version of "Forty Five Hundred Times" that's one verse and three minutes longer than the ''
Hello!
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'' original. "We were trying to make the song current for that incarnation of the band," said Rossi. "Whether or not we were successful in that… well, probably not. Musically speaking, it will have been tidier than the original – the playing would have improved. But, as we discovered on the ''
rantic Four's 2013' reunion tour, that's not really what it's all about. After doing it live again three years later, we went, 'What the fuck's this extra verse all about?' – and we got rid of it."
Track listing
# "Like a Zombie" (Francis Rossi, Bernie Frost) 5:03
# "All We Really Wanna Do" (Francis Rossi, Bernie Frost) 3:47
# "
Fakin' the Blues
''Rock 'til You Drop'' is the twentieth studio album by English rock band Status Quo and their last on the Vertigo label after nearly 20 years. Singer and guitarist Francis Rossi produced the album.
"Rossi is particularly fond of 1991's ''Rock ' ...
" (Francis Rossi, Bernie Frost) 4:29
# "One Man Band" (Rick Parfitt, Pip Williams) 4:31
# "
Rock 'til You Drop" (Andy Bown) 3:21
# "
Can't Give You More" (Francis Rossi, Bob Young) 4:27
# "Warning Shot" (Andy Bown, John Edwards) 3:58
# "
Let's Work Together" (
Wilbert Harrison) 3:41
# "
Bring It On Home" (
Sam Cooke) 3:10
# "No Problems" (Francis Rossi, Rick Parfitt) 4:51
# "Good Sign" (Rick Parfitt, Pip Williams) 4:15 *
# "Tommy" (Francis Rossi, Bernie Frost) 3:50 *
# "Nothing Comes Easy" (Francis Rossi, Rick Parfitt, Andy Bown, John Edwards, Jeff Rich) 5:46 *
# "Fame or Money" (Francis Rossi, Andy Bown) 4:06 *
# "
The Price of Love" (Don Everly, Phil Everly) 3:39 *
# "
Forty Five Hundred Times" (Francis Rossi, Rick Parfitt) 12:56 *
: * ''Not on LP version''.
Personnel
;Status Quo
*
Francis Rossi - vocals, lead guitar
*
Rick Parfitt
Richard John Parfitt, (12 October 1948 24 December 2016) was an English musician, best known as a singer, songwriter and rhythm guitarist with rock band Status Quo.
Parfitt began his career in the early 1960s, playing in pubs and holiday ...
- vocals, rhythm guitar
*
Andy Bown
Andrew Steven Bown (born 27 March 1946) is an English musician, who has specialised in keyboards and bass guitar. He is a member of the rock band Status Quo.
Career
Bown's first major band was The Herd, along with Peter Frampton. After The ...
- keyboards, piano
*
John Edwards
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- bass guitar
*
Jeff Rich - drums
Chart positions
References
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1991 albums
Status Quo (band) albums
Vertigo Records albums