History Music / StatusQuo

* LyricalColdOpen: "Good Sign" from ''Rock 'Til You Drop''.

* TakeThat: WordOfGod has confirmed that "Down Down" is one of these against the band's critics and detractors. Many people didn't realise this and thought that the lyrics were full of sexual innuendo (Rossi has speculated that people thought "Down Down" referred to down ''there''). But when you actually listen to the words, it's clear that this isn't the case.

* TakeThat: WordOfGod has confirmed that "Down Down" is one of these against the band's critics and detractors. Many people didn't realise this and thought that the lyrics were full of sexual innuendo (probably because it's called "Down Down" - people thought it meant down ''there''). But when you actually listen to the words, it's clear that this isn't the case.

* CarSong: "Don't Drive My Car" is about a man wanting his woman to stay away from his precious car.

* AscendedExtra: Andy Bown, who played on the ''Hello!'' album as a session musician, went on to become an official member of the band in 1977,

* AscendedExtra: Andy Bown, who played on the ''Hello!'' album as a session musician, but became an official member of the band in 1977,

* DesignStudentsOrgasm: The cover of ''[[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b8/Quo_Status_Quo_album_cover.jpg]]'', which features the band's heads growing on a tree.

* DesignStudentsOrgasm: The cover of ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quo_(Status_Quo_album)#mediaviewer/File:Quo_Status_Quo_album_cover.jpg Quo]]'', which features the band's heads growing on a tree.

* OneWomanSong: "Caroline" (as well as its B-side "Joanne") is an archetypal example. Others examples include "Long Legged Linda" and "Queenie". "Claudie", being an AntiLoveSong, is a subversion.

[[caption-width-right:300:The "Frantic Four".]]

** ''Dog Of Two Head'' has "Someone's Learning" (7:08).

* SanitySlippageSong: "Twenty Wild Horses".

** The Frantic Four's last 2014 concert is known as "The Frantic Four's Final Fling".

So far, in a career spanning more than 50 years, Quo have recorded 64 hit singles, with 22 of them making it into the Top Ten. They passed the 100 singles mark in 2013 with "Bula Bula Quo". They have spent more 415 weeks in the British Singles Chart, made 106 appearances on TopOfThePops (more than any other band), and had 33 albums in the British Albums Chart (second only to TheRollingStones in terms of quantity). Prince Charles is known to be a fan - not many bands can say that now, can they?

* NewSoundAlbum: ''Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon'' showed a move away from psychedelic pop and frilly shirts towards a no-nonsense hard rock sound. ''Rockin' All Over The World'' was the album on which the band began experimenting with synthesisers, and ''In The Army Now'' took this a step further with an unprecedented synth-rock sound. Much later, ''Under The Influence'' saw them move back to hard rock, resulting in the sound of today's Quo.

So far, in a career spanning more than 50 years, Quo have recorded 64 hit singles, with 22 of them making it into the Top Ten. They passed the 100 singles mark in 2013 with "Bula Bula Quo". They have spent more 415 weeks in the British Singles Chart, made 106 appearances on TopOfThePops (more than any other band), and had 33 albums in the British Albums Chart (second only to TheRollingStones in terms of quantity). Prince Charles is known to be a fan - not many bands can say that!

* OneWomanSong: "Claudie" and "Caroline" (as well as its B-side "Joanne") from the ''Hello!'' album. Others include "Long Legged Linda" and "Queenie".

* OneWomanSong: "Claudie" and "Caroline" (as well as its B-side "Joanne") from the ''Hello!'' album.