"Roll Over Lay Down" is a song by the British Rock band

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that was first released on the album ''Hello!'' in 1973. It was later released as the A-side of a live EP, ''Quo Live'' in 1975. It was released to celebrate the band's 13th anniversary. All of the tracks were recorded live and were taken from concerts at The Kursaal, Southend on 1 March 1975 and Trentham Gardens in Stoke the following night. The band released the EP against the advice of many people who predicted such a release would be a failure. It featured a picture sleeve that contained sleeve notes by

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. The centre of each copy of the record was specially moulded to feature the well known 'four heads' design (drawn by J Ifield) from the sleeve of the '' Quo'' album. All three tracks were included as bonus tracks on the re-release of the '' On the Level'' album.

Track listing

''Quo Live'' EP

# "Roll Over Lay Down" (Rossi/Young/Lancaster/Parfitt/Coghlan) – 5:40 # "Gerdundula" (Manston James) – 2:45 # "Junior's Wailing" (K White/M Pugh) – 3:50

Single

This single was released in France # "Roll Over Lay Down" (live) # "Where I Am"

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

Status Quo (band) songs 1975 singles Songs written by Francis Rossi Songs written by Bob Young (musician) Songs written by Rick Parfitt {{1970s-UK-single-stub