Status Quo
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AMG Review of Now Hear This
Dave Thompson
All Music GuideForsaken by the American mainstream, Status Quo wound up the 1970s on Rod Stewart's Riva label, but the old problem of their career being totally misrepresented did not go away. "Whatever You Want," their latest U.K. album's title track, had just become one of the band's biggest hits ever. So Riva retitled the entire package, and with so generic a name, there's little wonder the album passed by so unnoticed. Had anyone ventured in, they would have found the band to be in fine form. The acoustic lament of "Living on an Island" was one of the loveliest songs Quo had ever recorded, while the likes of "Shady Lady," "High Flyer," and "Who Asked You" all packed enough punch to prove to even the most hidebound oldies radio fan that there was plenty of life after "Pictures of Matchstick Men." Because, of course, that was the barrier that Quo needed to surmount in the U.S. -- and it's one that has remained firmly locked in the down position for the past 40 years. But with mismanagement like this to contend with, who can be surprised at that?
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