R.I.P Rick Parfitt

[booder]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Parfitt


Loved The Quo.s early albums ,Pildriver , Hello ,On the Level and Blue for You.

R.I.P

[Nakor]

So much of my musical history right here.
My old man had Hello and On the Level on vinyl and they were played constantly when I was young.
Pictures of Matchstick was "my" tune as a child. So much more then 3 chord wonders.
In 84 I was taken to Quo's "last gig" on the end of the road tour at the NEC, I was so excited I threw up all the way there (I was 9). It's my strongest memory of my childhood and spending time with Dad at that age.
I have seen them numerous times since with Dad and wife and seeing them on the Pyramid play to huge crowd in the sunshine is something I will never forget.

My world will miss Rick greatly. RIP
Living on a Island, waiting for my time to come.

[nirvana]

Quo have always been a big guilty pleasure of mine - will actually miss this guy, thought he was so cool in the double denim.

Living on an Island, not 'arf

[tikay]

Horrible news. He was very ill some time ago, then had a heart bypass op as I recall.

For those that enjoy that sort of thing, there is a cracking 1 hour TV Doc "Hello Quo", the whole Quo story, told mainly in interviews with Rick & Francis.

[celtic]

Went to see them last December in Glasgow with pizzled. Was never a fan but was surprisingly good.

RIP.

[Karabiner]

I was never really much of a Status Quo fan apart from the early "Matchstick Men" era that Adam mentioned but I did see them close-up c1970 when I was backstage with my dearly departed mate John Martyn and they opened the show for him at what must have been a pretty unglamourous university campus venue during one of their less popular spells.

I always admired Quo's durability and longevity in the music business - they seemed to be either completely in or completely out of fashion every few years - but never failed to bounce back.

RIP Rick Parfitt.

[RED-DOG]

Horrible news. He was very ill some time ago, then had a heart bypass op as I recall.

For those that enjoy that sort of thing, there is a cracking 1 hour TV Doc "Hello Quo", the whole Quo story, told mainly in interviews with Rick & Francis.

He had quadruple bypass surgery in the late 90s and two heart attacks in the naughties but he continued to drink and smoke heavily despite severe warnings from the doctors.