mortified
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Post by mortified on Apr 30, 2020 13:42:11 GMT
Just up on the official website, prints available to buy from Quo's Aquostic gig at the Royal Albert Hall. I rather like them and will probably grab one or two but does anyone else think that Rick looks old here and, frankly, quite unwell?   |
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Post by wolfman on Apr 30, 2020 14:47:38 GMT
Rick looks slightly poorly on there..
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Post by tramper on May 9, 2020 12:29:00 GMT
Doesn't look good.. not the best pic of Rick.😕
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Post by curiousgirl on May 9, 2020 13:20:56 GMT
Interesting how we all see things differently.
Sure, he'd lost a lot of weight since the reunion gigs. But I think he looks much better than then. And he was 67 and had lived a full life. I think its a much better photo than I was expecting before I enlarged it.
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Post by vivfromcov on May 9, 2020 14:22:24 GMT
True he doesn’t look that well but if I remember right there were a few others where he looked worse. He’d lost a lot of weight and I remember thinking how frail he looked.
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Post by QuocaQuola1 on May 9, 2020 14:51:23 GMT
Not quite sure what’s unhealthy about his look there, especially taking into consideration how he was always a fellow of slim build until he started packing it on from the mid-2000s. Even then, he was always one for fluctuating between the thin and hefty sides.
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Post by fretbuzzzzz on May 9, 2020 19:17:58 GMT
Rick's heart problems and subsequent surgery in 2014 did seem to take it's toll. He had bounced back from the 2011 heart attack and looked pretty good at the reunions. I think I've got the dates right.
We had been to one of the Aquostic shows back then.Though Rick had been sat down and looking ok.
We went to the VE Day gathering at Horseguards back in 2015 with Quo on the bill. When we had been used to seeing him on the more solid side, as such, seeing the thin legs and what have you had been a concern. Being that much older obviously meant a longer recovery time and taking a time to bulk up a bit.
That VE Day 70 event at Horseguards had been called 'A Party To Remember'. One of those events that we now look back on as something special but we also certainly remember it for the riot that was happening earlier in nearby Whitehall, around Downing Street. We had got off the Tube at Parliament and took a right into Whitehall and inadvertently walked right into a real tense situation. Fortunately the worst had probably been done at that moment but there were broken bottles everywhere and a huge Police presence. Quite a threatening atmosphere. Nothing to do with VE Day stuff but think it was a political protest aimed at the Government. Anyway, we made it to the event and all calm and well once there. It was if nothing had been happening just the other side of Horseguards.
Talking of the Quo boys not looking so well...I did think Francis looked thinner (if that was possible?) than usual and a bit ragged at the gigs in 1979. Though I have a feeling that had been a time of major upheaval on the domestic front at home and perhaps this had been taking its toll?
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