Status Quo / Live!

Status Quo’s 1977 album Live! will be reissued as an 8CD super deluxe box set, May.

The original double album is made up from performances at Glasgow’s Apollo Theatre between 27 and 29 October 1976 but this new box set offers, for the first time, the full live shows from each of those nights in Glasgow.

A remastered version of the original album, makes up the first two CDs and then each full live gig from Glasgow is split across two CDs, giving a total of eight discs.

The audio for this release has been mixed and mastered from newly-discovered 24-track multi-track tapes (one was in a mislabelled box marked “Peters and Lee”!) that came to light after some forensic tape library work by Andy Gamble. Francis Rossi, has since given this project his seal of approval.

The super deluxe set is presented in seven-inch format and includes a 24 page illustrated booklet, with new sleeve notes by Dave Ling, chronicling the making of the record, and the impact that it had upon release. The booklet includes biographical information, photography and images of memorabilia relating to the shows, and features an article from Andy Gamble (of AVP Studios) about the mastering processes and sound engineering behind the release.

The Live! super deluxe will be issued on 16 May 2025, via Edsel Records.

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Tracklisting

Live! Status Quo /

• 8CD super deluxe
  • CD 1: Live!
    1. Junior’s Wailing
    2. Backwater
    3. Just Take Me
    4. Is There A Better Way
    5. In My Chair
    6. Little Lady
    7. Most Of The Time
    8. Rain
    9. Forty-Five Hundred Times
  • CD 2: Live!
    1. Roll Over Lay Down
    2. Big Fat Mama
    3. Don’t Waste My Time
    4. Roadhouse Blues
    5. Caroline
    6. Bye Bye Johnny
  • CD 3: 27th October 1976
    1. Junior’s Wailing
    2. Backwater
    3. Just Take Me
    4. Is There A Better Way
    5. In My Chair
    6. Little Lady
    7. Most Of The Time
    8. Rain
    9. Forty-Five Hundred Times
  • CD 4: 27th October 1976
    1.  Roll Over Lay Down
    2. Big Fat Mama
    3. Don’t Waste My Time
    4. Roadhouse Blues
    5. Caroline
    6. Bye Bye Johnny
  • CD 5: 28th October 1976
    1.  Junior’s Wailing
    2. Backwater
    3. Just Take Me
    4. Is There A Better Way
    5. In My Chair
    6. Little Lady
    7. Most Of The Time
    8. Rain
    9. Forty-Five Hundred Times
  • CD 6: 28th October 1976
    1. Roll Over Lay Down
    2. Big Fat Mama
    3. Don’t Waste My Time
    4. Roadhouse Blues
    5. Caroline
    6. Bye Bye Johnny
  • CD 7: 29th October 1976
    1. Junior’s Wailing
    2. Backwater
    3. Just Take Me
    4. Is There A Better Way
    5. In My Chair
    6. Little Lady
    7. Most Of The Time
    8. Rain
    9. Forty-Five Hundred Times
  • CD 8: 29th October 1976
    1. Roll Over Lay Down
    2. Big Fat Mama
    3. Don’t Waste My Time
    4. Roadhouse Blues
    5. Caroline
    6. Bye Bye Johnny