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Post by theprogfather on Jun 22, 2024 22:36:59 GMT
One minute fans are told Fakin the blues is the new single, the next minute Quo are on Top of the pops and another show promoting it would seem at the time Lets Work Together. Well to be fair, unless you lived in Ireland or had access to RTE TV, you wouldn't have known Fakin' The Blues was meant to be a single as that was the only place I know of that it was mentioned, unless someone knows something different. Irish fans who watched the show would've been the only ones who knew about it, I certainly didn't know anything about it until many months later when I was sent the interview on VHS.
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Post by mortified on Jun 23, 2024 5:02:47 GMT
I stand corrected about the TOTP performance. I was working purely from memory. Obviously a flawed memory I also didn't play either of the videos. Evidently, I should have
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Post by roadhouse on Jun 23, 2024 10:39:04 GMT
You loved not knowing how to follow the band you loved? I knew how to follow the band I love, by listening with my ears and attending great gigs. Rock 'Til You Drop is a great album and the tour was fantastic, what's not to love about that? If you were confused with Quo at that time then that's on you, for me it went tits up when they made that awful song with Man Utd. I used to go to all the gigs, but I used to buy all the singles in all their formats because I was so desperate to help them have a hit. I used to have the chart run down on in antisipation how high will Quo enter that charts. I think I was a bit over the top at the time, it was like my life depended on it, I can't imagine what the band were feeling when Not at all and Little dreamer flopped so badly, but I was in bits. I bought all the formats, even the cassette single. I simply could not believe what was going on. But like I said the confusion carried on into the 90's. Singles were being released with little or no promotional aspect, yet some songs did get some airing but didn't get released as singles. For me it was frustrating being a fan from that aspect.
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theprogfather
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Post by theprogfather on Jun 23, 2024 20:05:52 GMT
I bought all formats too, watched and recorded every TV and radio show they were on and bought newspapers they were in and cut the articles out for my scrapbooks. I was in the fan club at the time so I got a lot of news from there as well.
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Post by roadhouse on Jun 24, 2024 11:55:30 GMT
I bought all formats too, watched and recorded every TV and radio show they were on and bought newspapers they were in and cut the articles out for my scrapbooks. I was in the fan club at the time so I got a lot of news from there as well. Me too, I used to ring the Quo line, but not all of the info was accurate.
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Post by The Lord Flasheart on Jun 30, 2024 0:00:44 GMT
Back then I remember reading in the papers. Either the Daily Mirror or The Sunday Mail as they were the papers my parents used to get. It said Quo will be filming a promo video shortly for their next single Lets Work Together it will feature the band playing with members of the Soap Eastenders.
This evidently never got made but I 100% remember reading it at the time.
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Post by roadhouse on Jun 30, 2024 0:23:42 GMT
Back then I remember reading in the papers. Either the Daily Mirror or The Sunday Mail as they were the papers my parents used to get. It said Quo will be filming a promo video shortly for their next single Lets Work Together it will feature the band playing with members of the Soap Eastenders. This evidently never got made but I 100% remember reading it at the time. Yeah and that's what I meant about it could be very frustrating at times, knowing what was coming out as a single or not. So that's at least 2 songs from the RTYD album that we're planned singles but never got released. I think at one point All we really wanna do was another contender. So much confusion going on in those days.
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