Status Quo

This English rock band was formed as “The Spectres” in 1962. The founders of the band, Francis Rossi and Alan Lancaster were no more than school boys at the time of its formation. They were both students of the same school, the Sedgehil Comprehensive School in Catford. Just like many of us. Their first inspiration to music came through the piano and the school orchestra. Their meeting sparked off something and hence the inception of this band Scorpions.

Scorpions were the initial name of this band but it was changed to Spectres afterwards. Their first performance was at a sports club in London and then they got their guitarist and their drummer Parfitt and Coghlan. Together they started writing their own material and putting music to it. At the end of 1965 Rossi and Parfitt decided that they would go on with their band no matter what and so they did and the rest is history. They became the first rock band in the entire history of rock to churn out the maximum number of chart busters in their long career.

The 1966, they got a deal with the Piccadilly studios and they released two hits that year with the “ I” and the “ hurdy gurdy man”. Here started their musical expedition. Like other musical bands, they to changed band members and many have come many have gone. At present the band comprises of Francis Rossi, Matt Letley, Rick Parfitt and Andy Brown along with John Edwards.

In 1967, the band got their first taste of psychedelic music and they changed their name to “Traffic”. Then the name became truly psychedelic by turn9ng to “traffic jam”! But this did not help as they produced one flop after the other and nothing seemed to work for them and then suddenly in the late 1967 the band hit success with their psychedelic rock songs. Since then they have never looked back and are a proud band that have produced tremendously popular hits in all times to come and have gone down in the history of rock.