''Rockin' All Over the World'' is the tenth studio album by

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band

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. It is their first to be produced by

Pip Williams Philip Malcolm "Pip" Williams (born 7 October 1947) is a record producer, arranger and guitarist, best known for producing albums for Status Quo and The Moody Blues and acting as well as supervising the orchestra parts and orchestra arrangem ...

and the first to feature

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as a regular contributor to the band; he would later join the band officially in 1982. Released in November 1977, it reached #5 in the UK. "A poxy album," said guitarist and singer

Francis Rossi Francis Dominic Nicholas Michael Rossi, (born 29 May 1949) is an English musician, singer and songwriter. He is the co-founder, lead singer, lead guitarist and the sole continuous member of the rock band Status Quo. Early life Rossi was born o ...

. "There's nothing poxy about ''Rockin' All Over the World''," countered guitarist

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. "It's fucking great. Pip added some class into the production and, from then onwards, we got quite posh – for us." Uncharacteristically, bassist

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agreed with Rossi: "When Pip Williams started producing us was when everything started to go wrong." The title track, written and originally recorded by

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, was released as a single in September 1977, peaking at #3 in the UK. Its b-side was " Ring of a Change", from their previous studio album. No other singles were issued from the album, although "

Can't Give You More "Can't Give You More" is a single released by the British Rock band Status Quo in 1991. The original version was included on the album '' Rockin' All Over The World''. This single was a re-recorded version which was to be used as an advertising c ...

" was rerecorded by the band for 1991's "

Rock 'Til You Drop ''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 ' ...

" and issued as a single, reaching #37. The album was reissued by Mercury in 2005 with a bonus track: a cover of the Beatles' "Getting Better", initially recorded in 1976 for the soundtrack of the film ''

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''. This track was omitted from a deluxe edition released in late 2015; however, for this reissue, the entire album was remixed and reordered by original engineer John Eden. Several of the new mixes feature longer play-outs and the overall sound was stripped back to the core of two guitars, bass and drums, with occasional keyboard parts. As a further bonus, four demos were included.

Track listing

The original album release included the tracks: ;Side one # "Hard Time" (

) – 4:45 # "

" (Rossi, Bob Young) – 4:15 # "Let's Ride" (

) – 3:03 # "Baby Boy" (Rossi, Young) – 3:12 # "You Don't Own Me" (Lancaster,

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) – 3:03 # " Rockers Rollin'" (Parfitt, Jackie Lynton) – 4:19 ;Side two # "

Rockin' All Over the World "Rockin' All Over the World" is a rock song written by John Fogerty, formerly of Creedence Clearwater Revival. It made its debut on Fogerty's second solo album in 1975. It was also released as a single, spending six weeks in the US top 40, peak ...

" (

) – 3:36 # "Who Am I" (Pip Williams, Peter Hutchins) – 4:30 # "Too Far Gone" (Lancaster) – 3:08 # "For You" (Parfitt) – 3:01 # "Dirty Water" (Rossi, Young) – 3:51 # " Hold You Back" (Rossi, Parfitt, Young) – 4:30

2005 reissue bonus track

# "

Getting Better "Getting Better" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1967 album '' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band''. It was written mainly by Paul McCartney, with some of the lyrics written by John Lennon, and credited to the Lennon ...

" (

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) – 2:19

2015 deluxe edition disc 2: John Eden Remix

# "Hold You Back" - 5:10 # "Baby Boy" - 3:18 # "Rockers Rollin'" - 4:41 # "Who am I?" - 5:10 # "Rockin' All Over the World" - 3:50 # "Dirty Water" - 4:16 # "Can't Give You More" - 5:26 # "Let's Ride" - 3:04 # "For You" - 3:08 # "Too Far Gone" - 3:09 # "You Don't Own Me" - 3:29 # "Hard Time" - 4:39 # "Dirty Water" (1st Demo 1976) - 4:16 # "Baby Boy" (1st Demo 1976) - 2:49 # "Hard Time" (1st Demo 1976) - 4:47 # "Hold You Back" (Studio Demo 1977) - 3:40

Personnel

;Status Quo *

–

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vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

– guitar, vocals *

– bass, vocals * John Coghlan –

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;Additional personnel *

–

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, backing vocals *

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- percussion

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References

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