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You’ve really got to hand it to whoever guides Status Quo through the pop and rock music jungle, carefully mining their back catalogue.

Brilliantly marketed, with ads that hit all the right notes in the right places, Quo’s latest release, the 8 CD Live! looks like being another winner.

The genesis of Live! dates back to 1977 when the band played three consecutive nights at the Glasgow Apollo. A one word album title already used by over a dozen bands. It was as if Quo was reclaiming lost ground, taking back the ownership of something that rightfully belonged to them.

In a massive expansion, it now becomes Live! The Super Deluxe Edition, with 8 CDs, chronicling the band’s onstage performances on the 27th, 28th and 29th October, 1977.

Originally recorded using the iconic Rolling Stones Mobile Studio, the audio for every track has been newly remixed and remastered from the source by the “go to” guys at AVP Productions.

The band’s rough hewn live sound, a merge of blues, boogie and hard rock has distinct characteristics that defined the band’s own uniquely identifiable ouevre. It comes across with depth and clarity as we listen in.

There are too many highlights to mention here.

But, almost at random: The eight minute ‘Backwater / Just Take Me’ medley lights the fuse, setting a gig in motion that is memorable for all the right reasons.

The ten minute album version of ‘Forty Five Hundred Times’ grows to nearly 17 raucous minutes live. And the audience are with them all the way. Testament to the power of high calibre song songwriting, taut and tense in one moment, loose and uninhibited in the next.

And anyone who is in good listening terms with Quo performing live will know that the songs come hot and strong. You can almost feel the sweat dripping off the walls during the 30 minute 1,2,3 punch of ‘Roadhouse Blues’, ‘Caroline’ and ‘Bye Bye Johnny’.

Their very own pop gem stands tall between the legendary rock songs of the Doors and Chuck Berry.

Say no more. *****

Review by Brian McGowan

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