Status Quo in the 1980s: Decades

Status Quo are a British institution - a multi-million selling band of epic proportions and while their career was in it’s hey day during the 1970s, the hits kept coming through the 1980s along with breakups, lawsuits, line-up changes, substance abuse and a high-profile, highly successful comeback after calling it a day in 1984. While much has been written about the ’glory years’, Quo’s difficult but triumphant struggle through the 1980s is a much more exciting story with twists, turns and a sense of peril that feels like it could go either way. This is a celebration of Quo’s music at its most vulnerable and experimental, at a time when the band lost old fans, gained new ones and made some of the most varied and creative recordings of their career. No stone has been left unturned with several members of the band contributing stories and anecdotes from their own perspectives that should leave even the most knowledgeable of fans feeling like they’ve learned something.

Gregory Harper (B.A. Hons, PGCE, MA) is a professional bassist, composer, arranger and educator based in Manchester, UK where he lives with his partner Abigail and their two cats Gizmo and Liza. He performs all around the world and has composed for film and TV. A lifelong fan of Status Quo combined with his passion for musicology and music theory has resulted in his first book for Sonicbond Publishing.