Rock 'til You Drop explained

Rock 'til You Drop
Type:Album
Artist:Status Quo
Cover:RockTilYouDrop-StatusQuo.jpg
Released:23 September 1991[1]
Recorded:at Bray Studios & ARSIS Studios
Genre:Hard rock
Length:75:56
Label:Vertigo
Producer:Francis Rossi
Prev Title:Perfect Remedy
Prev Year:1989
Next Title:Live Alive Quo
Next Year:1992

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 'til You Drop," reported Classic Rock a decade later. "Guitarist Rick Parfitt hates the record."[2]

The album closes with a version of "Forty Five Hundred Times" that's one verse and three minutes longer than the Hello! original. "We were trying to make the song current for that incarnation of the band," said Rossi. "Whether or not we were successful in that… well, probably not. Musically speaking, it will have been tidier than the original – the playing would have improved. But, as we discovered on the Frantic Four's 2013 reunion tour, that's not really what it's all about. After doing it live again three years later, we went 'What the fuck's this extra verse all about?' – and we got rid of it."[3]

Track listing

  1. "Like a Zombie" (Francis Rossi, Bernie Frost) 5:03
  2. "All We Really Wanna Do" (Francis Rossi, Bernie Frost) 3:47
  3. "Fakin' the Blues" (Francis Rossi, Bernie Frost) 4:29
  4. "One Man Band" (Rick Parfitt, Pip Williams) 4:31
  5. "Rock 'til You Drop" (Andy Bown) 3:21
  6. "Can't Give You More" (Francis Rossi, Bob Young) 4:27
  7. "Warning Shot" (Andy Bown, John Edwards) 3:58
  8. "Let's Work Together" (Wilbert Harrison) 3:41
  9. "Bring It On Home" (Sam Cooke) 3:10
  10. "No Problems" (Francis Rossi, Rick Parfitt) 4:51
  11. "Good Sign" (Rick Parfitt, Pip Williams) 4:15 *
  12. "Tommy" (Francis Rossi, Bernie Frost) 3:50 *
  13. "Nothing Comes Easy" (Francis Rossi, Rick Parfitt, Andy Bown, John Edwards, Jeff Rich) 5:46 *
  14. "Fame or Money" (Francis Rossi, Andy Bown) 4:06 *
  15. "The Price of Love" (Don Everly, Phil Everly) 3:39 *
  16. "Forty Five Hundred Times" (Francis Rossi, Rick Parfitt) 12:56 *

* Not on LP version.

Personnel

Status Quo

Notes and References

  1. Web site: UK Albums 2 . 2022-10-21 . www.statusquo.org.uk.
  2. Dave. Ling. Again again again…. Classic Rock #36. January 2002. 73.
  3. Dave. Ling. The stories behind the songs – Status Quo, Forty-Five Hundred Times. Classic Rock #189. October 2013. 30.

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