6th September Rhino's solo album launch concert at the 100 Club (a famous small venue in the centre of London) was a big success.  His band (including Quo's new drummer Matt Letley) played most of the songs on the album and encored with "Break The Rules" and "Paper Plane".

1st September "The "Famous In The Last Century" album is due to be released in Australia (Festival Music D32247) on the 11th September - with the bonus tracks "Fun Fun Fun" (with the Beach Boys), "Raining In My Heart" (with Brian May), "Pictures Of Matchstick Men" (1999 version) and "Whatever You Want".

27th August The 'Anniversary Waltz' video (originally released in 1991) was issued as a DVD earlier this month in Germany (click here to see picture).

24th August The "Old Time Rock And Roll" single is now to be released on the 18th September.  With  'live' recordings of "4500 Times" and "Rain" from the Shepherds Bush show in March.  The CD version of the single will also include a CD Rom of "Old Time Rock And Roll" also from the Shepherds Bush gig.  The DVD of the concert is now due for release in October.

23rd August The "Mony Mony" single is number 21 in the Italian Laisvoji Banga radio station chart.  "Famous In The Last Century" has slipped to number 11 in the Danish charts.

17th August "Famous In The Last Century" has moved up the Danish charts and is now number 7 (from number 8 last week).

15th August The 'Stars In Their Lives' programme with Rick is now due to be broadcast on Saturday the 19th August.

6th August The "Famous In The Last Century" album has recently been released in Denmark and is currently number 8 in the charts there.  Once again the 'Stars In Their Lives' programme with Rick has been put back - this time until September.

27th July Francis Rossi is writing material for the Quo's next album with Bob Young.  The 'Stars In Their Lives' programme with Rick is now to be broadcast on Saturday the 5th August.  The release of the second single from the "Famous In The Last Century" album - "Old Time Rock And Roll" - has been put back until September.     

24th July Castle have re-issued their 1997 CD compilation "Status Quo - Ice In The Sun" as "At Their Best".  The CD has the same catalogue number (Castle Pulse PLS CD 206) as the original release and   sells for just under 3 (click here to see picture).

11th July Rhino's solo album "Rhino's Revenge" is due to be released on the 11th September by Eagle records.  Francis and Rick play 'guest' guitar on one of the tracks.  It is a good album with some strong material (and not self-indulgent like many solo albums..) - although his singing does take a while to get used to.     

4th July The Delta records Quo CD compilation "Rockin' All Over The World" (issued in Germany in May) is to be released in the UK on the 10th July.

22nd June The 'Stars In Their Lives' programme with Rick is due to be broadcast on ITV on Saturday the 22nd July.

1st June Rick Parfitt is to be featured on the TV programme 'Stars And Their Lives' (a sort of 'this is your life' type show).  The programme was filmed on the 18th. May and is due to be broadcast in July.  This week's German chart position for the new album is 90 (last week 83).

28th May Universal have produced a third promo CD to help promote the "Famous In The Last Century" album - a one track CD with "When I'm Dead And Gone".  This weeks chart positions for the new album are - German chart 61 (last week 46) and Swiss chart 91 (last week 73).  The album has now dropped out of the UK charts (after 5 weeks).

24th May The 21st. May edition of the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia included the five track CD "Grandes Mitos" (Great Myths) (click here to see picture).

22nd May Another Quo compilation CD - with the title "Rockin' All Over The World" (Delta CD 23 106)  has been released in Germany (click here to see picture).                        

21st May This weeks chart positions for the new album are - UK chart 46 (last week 28) and Swiss chart 73 (last week 56).

20th May The three songs from the new album -  "Mony Mony", "Old Time Rock & Roll" and "Roll Over Beethoven" - were included in the set at the start of the German tour.

17th May Quo's new drummer made his first appearance with the band on the BBC TOTP 2 televison programme shown today.  The Russian Quo CDRom that was issued towards the end of last year includes the following albums: "Spare Parts", "Quo", "On The Level", "Blue For You", "Rockin' All Over The World", "If You Can't Stand The Heat", "Never Too Late", "1+9+8+2", "Back To Back", "In The Army Now", "Ain't Complaining", "Perfect Remedy", "Live Alive Quo", "Thirsty Work", "Don't Stop" and "Under The Influence" -  with a playing time of 11 hours and 50 minutes (click here to see picture).  

15th May The current chart positions for the "Famous In The Last Century" album are - UK chart 28 (last week 19), German chart 46 (new entry) and Swiss chart 56 (last week 64).  The "Mony Mony" single dropped out of the UK charts.  

11th May It was announced this week that Matt Letley is joining Quo as the new drummer.

7th May The "Mony Mony" single entered the UK chart at the number 48 position.  The new album moved back up the UK charts and is now number 19.  A new Quo compilation CD "Grandes Mitis" (Great Myths) is due to be released in Spain on the 21st May.

4th May The "Under The Influence" album was issued on CD in Australia (through Warner Brothers) on the 28th February - with the bonus tracks "Sea Cruise" and "Pictures Of Matchstick Men (1999)".

2nd May The new single "Mony Mony" is released today (cd 158 013-2 and cassette 158 013-4).

1st May A 50 minute television documentary 'Excess All Areas' on Quo was shown on BBC 1 last night.  The new album entered the Swiss charts yesterday at the number 60 position.

30th April A new issue (Volume 5 Number 3) of the FTMO magazine was posted out to fan club members last week - with news and views on the "Famous In The Last Century" album.   The new album is now number 34 in the UK charts.  A bootleg CD-Rom is available in Russia with 16 Quo albums worth of material.  The first bootlegs from the Shepherds Bush Empire concert have started to appear (and the sound quality is pretty good). 

23rd April The "Famous In The Last Century" album entered the UK charts at the number 21 position.   

19th April A new compilation CD of Vertigo recorded material called "Break The Rules" (click here to see picture) was released in Germany on Monday - with the catalogue number Mercury 542 613-2.  A second promo CD for the "Famous In The Last Century" album has been  produced with the tracks "Mony Mony", "Old Time Rock And Roll" and "Famous In The Last Century" (Universal QUO 2).

17th April "Famous In The Last Century" is released today (Universal Music TV cd: 157 814-2 mc: 157 814-4).  At long last there is news of a single from the album - "Mony Mony" with "Famous In The Last Century" (full version), "Gerdundula" (live at the Shepherds Bush Empire show) and a CD-Rom video of "Mony Mony" is to be issued on the 1st May (actually the 2nd May due to the Bank holiday).  The record company apparently wanted to market the album as a 'party album' they did not want to issue a single and have only just been convinced.  The BBC television Quo documentary is due to be broadcast on the 30th April.  The band had hoped to announce the name of their new drummer but his current band have threatened legal action if he joined Quo - so it is back to the drawing board.  The band's record producer Mike Paxman will be standing in during the various T.V. appearances booked to promote the new album.        

7th April 2000 Still no news of a single from the "Famous In The Last Century" album.  Quo have slipped to 55th place (from 38th last year) in the annual Record Collector magazine 'Collectable Artists' poll.

5th April 2000  The official Quo website has announced this week that Jeff Rich has decided to leave Quo. 

30th March 2000 Spectrum Music have released a "Volume 3" CD (click here to see picture) in their budget priced "Essential Status Quo" series of releases (as audited sales figures for "Volume 1" now exceed 80,000 copies you can see why!).   It is once again it is made up of a good selection of Quo Vertigo recorded material - although with no particularly rare tracks.  My only complaint is that the release includes "Ain't Complaining" when this is also on "Volume 1".

28th March 2000 The 'Fan Club' concert at the Shepherd's Bush Empire, in London, yesterday was a great success.  The band's gesture of giving out free event t-shirts was a good response to the complaints by many fans at the high ticket price.   Universal records have manufactured a promo CD to promote the new album - the tracks are: "Famous In The Last Century" (intro), "When I'm Dead & Gone", "Old Time Rock And Roll", "Mony Mony" and "Famous In The Last Century" (reprise) (Universal QUO 1). 

3rd March 2000 Tickets for the Shepard's Bush Empire concert are now available to non FTMO members.  Another budget price CD compilation of 'Pye material' was released in Germany, in January, with the title "Tune To The Music" (Laserlight 21 102) - it is a different compilation to the CD issued in 1992 with the same title.  

10th January 2000  Quo are in the studio this month to record some new songs.  There is also talk of a "Don't Stop" Part 2 album - with more rock based material. There are a couple of new CDs - a various artist compilation "The Night Of The Proms - Vol 6" (German BMG 74321 70562 2) with 'live' recordings of "Whatever You Want" and "20 Wild Horses" and a new 'best of' compilation "Greatest Hits & More" (Universal 564 700-2) was issued in Holland last November. There were a few new bootleg CDs that came out at the end of last year - "Rocking Wild Horses" (Strandfuif Festival in Glabbeek, Belgium 6-8-99), "En Concert A l'Olympia" (Paris 23-11-96), "Night Of The Proms" (Rotterdam, Holland 20-11-99), Still Live At The N.E.C. (Birmingham 16-10-99) and "Keep 'Em Coming" (London 23-10-99) - but nothing really special.