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Post by curiousgirl on Mar 21, 2019 20:33:47 GMT
I found this via the Quo fb page. But how unrock'n'roll is this! Loose Ends is a magazine promo programme on Saturday eves, so I suppose it makes sense really. My parents listened to this radio station when I was growing up, whereas of course I was tuned to Radio 1. That's how I discovered Quo when they hit the charts on the Sunday night Top 20 countdown. You can hear his segment at 14.11 mins until around 22 mins. Its rapid fire listen as he rattles through his answers. He's quite relaxed though, and he knows Michael Ball who is also on this episode. He does say something very surprising at the end in response to Clive Anderson's closing comments that they, Quo, are still going..." but we're all little insecure show offs." Never heard him say that before. They should have named his band Status Quo. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0003ch4I think you can only listen in the UK.
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Post by fretbuzzzzz on Mar 21, 2019 22:08:14 GMT
Thanks.
Francis seems at home on these more 'high-brow' programmes.
I remember seeing him being interviewed by Andrew Neil on TV in the mid 90s and he was in a similar relaxed and coherent mood.
Certainly casting a wide net at the moment.
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Post by fretbuzzzzz on Mar 22, 2019 11:13:35 GMT
...one of the curious things that he has mentioned in various recent interviews is how drink led him to drugs. I thought there were accounts of him and a couple of others in the band doing coke etc in the 70s and early 80s and bearing in mind the US tours, long before the Margueritas homed into view?
Always assumed it was joints/speed first and then coke. They drank some booze, played a bit of football before getting onstage in the late 60s and early 70s but as far as I knew his tequila intake on an industrial scale happened around '82, '83 amd '84.
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Post by gav on Mar 22, 2019 16:03:04 GMT
Mandrax was involved in the earlier days too i think it has been mentioned.
Maybe there's a bit of revisionism going on with Rossi. Maybe he wouldn't like to admit that smoking joints got him onto the harder stuff - the "slippery slope" people used to talk about (but you can't say that these days as weed smokers don't like to be thought of as drug addicts).
He wasn't a big drinker, that he admits. So he lumps these two things, drink and cocaine together, as his two biggest regrets. Perhaps he's trying to help people make the connection, and thus warn them,
Maybe i'm thinking about all this a bit too much.
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Mar 22, 2019 16:16:39 GMT
I'm making a wild guess that they took a bit of whatever was going in the earlier years, but the industrial consumption of coke didn't really get going till the 80s.
OTOH "revisionism" doesn't sound by any means unlikely ...
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