"What You're Proposing" is a single released by the British
rock
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band
Status Quo in 1980. It was included on their album ''
Just Supposin'
''Just Supposin is the thirteenth album by Status Quo. Co-produced by the group and John Eden, it was recorded at Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin. Released on 17 October 1980, it entered the UK albums chart at number 4.
Three tracks were issue ...
''.
The B-side is "A B Blues", a non-album instrumental studio jam. Some later pressings of this single mis-credited
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 ...
as Andy Brown on the B-side composer's credit. The initial pressing run of 75,000 copies of this single were issued with a colour picture sleeve.
The song was reprised, in 2014, for the band's thirty-first studio album ''
Aquostic (Stripped Bare)''. It was featured in the ninety-minute launch performance of the album at London's ''
Roundhouse'' on 22 October, the concert being recorded and broadcast live by
BBC Radio 2
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as part of their ''In Concert'' series.
Track listing
# "What You're Proposing" (Rossi/Frost) (4.13)
# "A B Blues" (Rossi/Parfitt/Lancaster/Coghlan/Bown) (4.33)
Charts
References
{{Status Quo
Status Quo (band) songs
1980 singles
Songs written by Francis Rossi
1980 songs
Vertigo Records singles