Tommys in love vs Tommy

This would be one of Rossi's 'songs' that he felt best represented himself as a songwriter and i guess he wanted the world to hear it. As no-one bought PR no-one heard it the first time around and he duly put it out again on an album he knew would do much better due to the massive promo campaign it had around the 4-gigs-in-a-day live event. At a guess!

not a very good song

I remember an interview somewhere, with someone (Rhino I think), who said they recorded it twice because they didn't get it right the first time round. 

Whether that's true or he was just being diplomatically ironic, I don't know. 

It's not a style of song that I like and harks back to the days of The Platters and various crooners. I can hear someone like Pat Boone singing it with a full orchestra

When Francis really likes a song, he tends to play it as a solo artist, as a sort of stick his tongue out thing. Like Margie or Tongue Tied. He hasn't with Tommy.

Pointless exercise to record it, let alone re record it, summed up that feeling that (as quoted by Alan during an Interview) that Francis (and to a far lesser extent Rick) were using the Quo name to release solo orientated stuff, would have to agree with Alan with a fair chunk of the fodder that was put out in the late 80's/early 90's, but in fairness to Francis, with Rick not overly contributing much on the writing side, he was under pressure to deliver quantity over quality to complete albums

How far the mighty had fallen.

Nuff said.

They are both utter shit of the highest shit quality. I can't tell the difference. Who on earth thought it was a good idea to put this drivel on RTYD needs shooting