QUO ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM

Status Quo are to release a new studio album on September 6.

Titled ‘Backbone’, it will be put out by earMUSIC and is not only the band’s 33rd studio album but their first since Rick Parfitt died in 2016. Comments Francis Rossi:

“This new material had to be seriously good. Quo have achieved so much and meant so much to too many people for the quality to slip now.

“Also, let’s face it, things have changed and we’re an easier target than ever. Losing Rick was hard to bear but, through Richie Malone, who was inspired to pick up a guitar by him, we can not only keep going but actually pick up the pace.

“The energy that he and drummer Leon Cave bring to Quo can’t be underestimated. I wasn’t sure I had another album in me but I couldn’t be more proud of ‘Backbone’.

“I hope the fans love it, but you can’t please everyone and I’m not going to start trying to now.”

The band will also be part of Radio 2’s Festival In A Day at Hyde Park on September 15.