Status Quo 'Hello' original 1973 LP including free poster Vertigo 6360 098
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Status Quo 'Hello' original 1973 LP including free poster Vertigo 6360 098. Condition is Used. Dispatched with Royal Mail 2nd Class. This album has been well-played but is in good condition. There are a few blemishes on the vinyl but nothing deep. Initial copies of the record on vinyl came with a large black and white poster of the group. As this is an original pressing, we still have the poster. Despite being on my husband's bedroom wall as he was growing up, the poster is aged and yellowing but in general good condition. This LP is an original pressing and a must for serious Quo vinyl collectors.
Hello! is the sixth studio album by the British rock band Status Quo. Released in September 1973, it was the first of four Quo albums to top the UK Albums Chart. It was also the first Quo album on which drummer John Coghlan was credited with songwriting.
Keyboard player Andy Bown and saxophonist Stewart Blandamer both played on "Forty Five Hundred Times". This was Bown's first appearance on a Status Quo album, although he would guest on most subsequent releases, and become a permanent member of the line-up a few years later.
1973 started for Status Quo with the belated chart success, in January, of the 1972 releases on their new label Vertigo, leading to their first top ten entry on the album charts and a long-awaited return to the top ten of the singles chart. In August 1973 the only single from the new album, Rossi and Young's Caroline was released, reaching #5. This was the group's first single to reach the UK top five.
This album became the most successful album the band had ever released. Of the 8 tracks on the album, only 6 of them were new. "Caroline" had already been heard by the public due to its single release, whereas "Softer Ride" had served as the B-side to the band's "Paper Plane" single from their previous album Piledriver, which was their first album release on Vertigo after leaving Pye.
No other singles were issued from the album, although a live version of "Roll Over Lay Down" appeared on a three-track EP released in May 1975, which reached No. 9 in the UK Singles Chart and No. 2 on the Australian Singles Chart, making it the band's only top-ten hit Down Under.
This was the band's first album to feature the band's name written in the now-familiar font used on most subsequent album covers. The album rear also includes the classic line "From the makers of" followed by the images from "Dog of Two Head" and "Piledriver"
Side one
Roll over lay down
Claudie
A reason for living
Blue eyed lady
Side two
Caroline
Softer Ride
And its better now
Forty-five hundred times
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