11th August  "Jam Side Down" entered the UK charts today at the number 17 position.

5th August   A two song promo CD Single - with "Jam Side Down" and "Blues And Rhythm" - has been distributed (by Universal Music TV QUO 2) to radio stations (click here to see picture).

31st July  The band started a promotion blitz for the new album following the Ark Royal show yesterday.  The set included the same four new songs from the album - All Stand Up / Solid Gold / Heavy Traffic / Creeping Up On You  - as the BBC show.  "Jam Side Down" is not being issued as a cassette single.

28th July  No change in the set list at the gig in Kent yesterday.

18th July  The UK version of the new album "Heavy Traffic" (click here to see picture) is to feature the bonus track "Money Don't Matter" (Rossi-Young).  Two CD singles are to be released of "Jam Side Down" by Universal Music TV on the 5th August.  The first (catalogue number 019 234-2) is to include the non album track "The Madness" (Parfitt-Edwards) and a CD-ROM video of "Jam Side Down" filmed from the 'Ark Royal' (click her to see advert for the single).  The second (catalogue number 019 235-2) is to include recordings of "Down Down" and "Rockin' All Over The World" from the TOTP2 show from November 2000.  Also a 1 song promo CD Single of "Jam Side Down" (QUO01) has been distributed to radio stations.

17th July  The "Rock 'Til You Drop" album was re-issued in the UK this week as a budget price CD (the catalogue number was the same as the original release from 1991).

7th July  A new Quo compilation budget priced CD "In The Army Now - The Collection" is due to be released in Germany tomorrow by Mercury (063 036-2) (click here to see picture).

6th July  "The Swedish Collection" is now number 28 in the charts and has gone gold.

5th July  Quo's set at the TV filmed concert in London yesterday was Caroline / The Wanderer / All Stand Up / Solid Gold / Heavy Traffic / Creeping Up On You / 4500 Times / Rain / In The Army Now / Roll Over Lay Down / Down Down / Whatever You Want / Rockin' All Over The World.  The TV programme is due to broadcast as part of 'The One And Only' series in September.

4th July  A "John Coghlan from Status Quo" CD album was released in France last month by Warner Bros.  The CD is made up of a selection of songs from the two similar CD albums released in Italy last year by DV More Records.  

28th June The Quo UK tour dates - forty gigs running from the 29th October through to the 21st December - have been announced. 

25th June A five track promo CD Single - for the "Heavy Traffic" album - has been produced by Universal Music with the songs - "Jam Side Down", "Blues And Rhythm", "All Stand Up", "The Oriental" and "Heavy Traffic".  

24th June The 'covers' album is to be released in November (a month after "Heavy Traffic" is to be issued) with 15 tracks.  Five of the tracks are to be re-recorded versions of the Quo songs "Junior's Wailing", "Down The Dustpipe", "Caroline", "Whatever You Want" and "Rockin' All Over The World".  The planned marketing ploy is to package the two albums together in December for the Christmas market.  

21st June According to the latest issue of Classic Rock magazine Quo are to release a third 'covers' album before Christmas.

16th June The final track listing for the new album is to be (1) "Blues And Rhythm" (Rossi-Bown) 4:29 (2) "All Stand Up" (Rossi-Young) 4:08 (3) "The Oriental" (Rossi-Edwards) 4:29 (4) "Creepin' Up On You" (Parfitt-Edwards) 5:01 (5) "Heavy Traffic" (Rossi-Young-Edwards) 4:23 (6) "Solid Gold" (Rossi-Young) 4:12 (7) "Green" (Bown) 3:35 (8) "Jam Side Down" (Britten-Dore) 3:38 (9) "Digging Burt Bacharach" (Rossi-Young) 2:31 (10) "Do It Again" (Edwards-Bown) 3:39 (11) "Another Day" (Rossi-Young) 3:47 (12) "I Don't Remember Anymore" (Bown) 3:38 (13) "Rhythm Of Life" (Rossi-Young) 5:04.  The first single from the album - "Jam Side Down" - is due to be released on the 5th August.

15th June "The Swedish Collection" is now number 18 in the charts (down from 14 last week).

5th June The first single from the new album is to be "Jam Side Down".  The single is due to be released in early August and is to be previewed 'live' at the NFL Europe World Bowl concert in Dsseldorf on the 22nd June.  The new album is now to feature 13 songs. 

4th June Although the band have been playing "Heavy Traffic" during their sound checks it has still not yet been added to the 'live' set list.

3rd June "The Swedish Collection" is now number 11 in the charts.

27th May  The "Anniversary Waltz" DVD was issued in the UK today (click here to see picture).

23rd May  "The Swedish Collection" has dropped down to number 9 in the charts.

22nd May  The new album - "Heavy Traffic" - is now due to be released on the 23rd September and is to be issued by Universal Music.  A documentary about the band (filmed during last year's UK tour) is to be broadcast on TV the same week.  

19th May  The band are looking at including the title track ("Heavy Traffic") from the new album in the set list from the next tour dates in Germany.

18th May  No change in the set list during the recent gigs in France and Germany.  

17th May  "The Swedish Collection" is now number 5 in the charts.

12th May  The UK release of the "Anniversary Waltz" DVD (Sanctuary SDE2011) - due on the 27th May - has a different cover design to the original video and the German DVD issues. 

10th May  "The Swedish Collection" has moved up to number 9 in the charts.

6th May  "The Swedish Collection" double compilation CD entered the charts at number 38.

30th April  A new Quo compilation CD with the title "Rock Collection" has been issued in Russia (click here to see picture).

27th April  The top 10 best ever Quo songs from 'The Makers Of' website April poll are: - 1) 4500 Times 2) Big Fat Mama 3) Caroline 4) Mystery Song 5) Blue Eyed Lady 6) Paper Plane 7) Down Down 8) The Power Of Rock 9) Don't Waste My Time 10) Backwater.  The full results are available from www.statusquo.musicpage.com

26th April  Quo's set list from the concert in Barcelona last night was the same as last year's UK tour.

25th April  "Under The Influence" was number 62 in last weeks Estonian CD chart.

1st April  Quo's management have now confirmed that the new album will be called "Heavy Traffic".  The album will feature 12 new (Quo written) songs and will be released in September.

31st March  A new Quo 'best of' double CD is to be released in Sweden on the 24th April by Universal TV.  The title is "The Swedish Collection" (copied from the similar Danish release of last year) click here to see picture.

26th March  Sanctuary Music Group are to issue the "Anniversary Waltz" video on DVD in the UK in May.  The video (of the anniversary concert at Butlins in October 1990) was originally released back in February 1991 and was issued as a DVD in Germany in August 2000.

25th March  The new album is now to be called "Heavy Traffic" - according to an interview with Rick on a German radio station at the weekend.

23rd March  A new Quo compilation CD "Rock Profile" has been issued in Russia (click here to see picture).  

5th March Quo's new album (still provisionally titled "Never Say Never") is now due to be released in August.

3rd March A third John Coghlan Quo CD has been issued in Italy with the title "Early Years" (DV More Records).  The CD is a compilation of the two CDs released last year (click here to see picture).   

25th February A new Quo compilation CD with the title "Down Down" (Universal 586 757-2) was released in Holland in January.  The CD has the same track listing as "The Essential Status Quo Volume 1".

21st February The Russian Quo MP3 CDROM issued in 1999 has been re-issued with a new cover.  The CDROM 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).   

13th February The "Swedish Radio Sessions" CD release was cancelled as both Francis and Rick did not feel that the 'live' performance was good enough (click here to see the planned cover).  As Castle Music are still optimistic that Quo will sign to the label - for their new album - they agreed to cancel the release.

10th February  This weeks 'The Life Laundry' programme (on BBC 2 on Wednesday) features John Coghlan.  

8th February  The "End Of The Road" video has been issued on Video 8 (the camcorder sized cassette) by Heron Home Entertainment SYH101 (click here to see picture).

4th February  There is another new 1 track promo CD Single in Spain with - "Roll Over Beethoven". 

28th January  "The Singles Collection 1968-69" box set was released by Castle Music today.  The set includes 7 CD singles in replica sleeves - with a poster (click here to see picture).  Although the set is beautifully packaged at 21.99 (€36) - it is one for collectors only.   

13th January  Quo were in the charts this week - 25 years ago with "Wild Side Of Life", 20 years ago with "Rock N' Roll" and 10 years ago with "Rock 'Til You Drop".

2nd January 2002  Quo's 'live in concert' radio show from 1971 is to be released by Castle Music 'Swedish Radio Sessions' (CMRCD490) on the 11th February.   The track listing is Junior's Wailing / Someone's Learning / Umleitung / In My Chair / Railroad / Roadhouse Blues.