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{{Infobox album
{{Infobox album
| name = Back to Back
| name = Back to Back
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| recorded = 1983
| recorded = 1983
| venue =
| venue =
| studio = [[Associated Independent Recording|AIR Studios, Montserrat]]
| studio = [[AIR Montserrat|AIR]] ([[Salem, Montserrat]])
| genre = [[Hard rock]], [[boogie rock]]
| genre = [[Hard rock]], [[boogie rock]]
| length = 32:55
| length = 32:55
| label = [[Vertigo Records|Vertigo]]
| label = [[Vertigo Records|Vertigo]]
| producer = [[Status Quo (band)|Status Quo]]
| producer = [[Status Quo (band)|Status Quo]]
| prev_title = [[Live at the N.E.C.]]
| prev_title = [[From the Makers of...]]
| prev_year = 1982
| prev_year = 1982
| next_title = [[In the Army Now (album)|In the Army Now]]
| next_title = [[Live at the N.E.C.]]
| next_year = 1986
| next_year = 1984
| misc = {{Singles
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Back to Back
| name = Back to Back
| type = studio
| type = studio
| single1 = [[Ol' Rag Blues]]
| single1 = [[Ol' Rag Blues]]
| single1date = August 1983
| single1date = 2 September 1983
| single2 = [[A Mess of Blues]]
| single2 = [[A Mess of Blues]]
| single2date = October 1983
| single2date = 28 October 1983
| single3 = [[Marguerita Time]]
| single3 = [[Marguerita Time]]
| single3date = November 1983
| single3date = 2 December 1983
| single4 = [[Going Down Town Tonight]]
| single4 = [[Going Down Town Tonight]]
| single4date = May 1984
| single4date = 11 May 1984
}}
}}
}}
}}
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'''''Back to Back''''' is the sixteenth studio album by English rock band [[Status Quo (band)|Status Quo]] and released in November 1983. For the first time in the group's history, it featured four singles, "[[Ol' Rag Blues]]" (highest position No. 9), "[[A Mess of Blues]]", originally a hit for [[Elvis Presley]] (No. 15), "[[Marguerita Time]]" (No. 3), and "[[Going Down Town Tonight]]" (which reached No. 20 in a different, re-recorded version to the album version.) The album entered the UK chart at its highest position of No. 9.
'''''Back to Back''''' is the sixteenth studio album by English rock band [[Status Quo (band)|Status Quo]] and released in November 1983. For the first time in the group's history, it featured four singles, "[[Ol' Rag Blues]]" (highest position No. 9), "[[A Mess of Blues]]", originally a hit for [[Elvis Presley]] (No. 15), "[[Marguerita Time]]" (No. 3), and "[[Going Down Town Tonight]]" (which reached No. 20 in a different, re-recorded version to the album version.) The album entered the UK chart at its highest position of No. 9.


It was the last recorded before the group temporarily disbanded in 1985 and therefore the last to feature original bass guitarist [[Alan Lancaster]] and drummer [[Pete Kircher]]. Lancaster co-wrote the first single, "Ol' Rag Blues", with [[Keith Lamb (musician)|Keith Lamb]], lead singer of British bands The Kase, Sleepy Talk and Mr. Toad, and founder and lead singer of Australia's successful glam rock band Hush. Lancaster was angered when the production company declined to release the version featuring his lead vocal (which has since been made available as a bonus track on the 2006 remastered reissue), in preference to that featuring the voice of [[Francis Rossi]]. He also made no secret of his dislike of "Marguerita Time", which he thought was too pop-orientated for the group. When they appeared on [[BBC]]'s ''[[Top of the Pops]]'' to mime to the single, his place was taken by [[Jim Lea (musician)|Jim Lea]] of [[Slade]], who were also on the programme that week. The ''Top of the Pops'' performance was also notable for [[Rick Parfitt]] falling into Pete Kircher's drum set near the end of the song while the song kept playing. On the DVD ''Hello Quo'', Parfitt claims that he had planned this action, although many people thought he was drunk. On the same DVD, Alan Lancaster also said that he wasn't so concerned with "Marguerita Time" as he was with "Going Down Town Tonight", which – according to him – was not a Status Quo recording and featured no Status Quo musicians apart from Francis Rossi.
It was the last album to feature original bass guitarist [[Alan Lancaster]], as well as drummer [[Pete Kircher]]. Lancaster co-wrote the first single, "Ol' Rag Blues", with [[Keith Lamb (musician)|Keith Lamb]], lead singer of British bands The Kase, Sleepy Talk and Mr. Toad, and founder and lead singer of Australia's successful glam rock band Hush. Lancaster was angered when the production company declined to release the version featuring his lead vocal (which has since been made available as a bonus track on the 2006 remastered reissue), in preference to that featuring the voice of [[Francis Rossi]]. He also made no secret of his dislike of "Marguerita Time", which he thought was too pop-orientated for the group. When they appeared on [[BBC]]'s ''[[Top of the Pops]]'' to mime to the single, his place was taken by [[Jim Lea (musician)|Jim Lea]] of [[Slade]], who were also on the programme that week. The ''Top of the Pops'' performance was also notable for [[Rick Parfitt]] falling into Pete Kircher's drum set near the end of the song while the song kept playing. On the DVD ''Hello Quo'', Parfitt claims that he had planned this action, although many people thought he was drunk. On the same DVD, Alan Lancaster also said that he wasn't so concerned with "Marguerita Time" as he was with "Going Down Town Tonight", which – according to him – was not a Status Quo recording and featured no Status Quo musicians apart from Francis Rossi.


==Track listing==
==Track listing==
# "[[A Mess of Blues]]" ([[Doc Pomus]], [[Mort Shuman]]) – 3:23
# "[[Ol' Rag Blues]]" (Alan Lancaster, [[Keith Lamb (musician)|Keith Lamb]]) – 2:51
# "Can't Be Done" (Francis Rossi, Bernie Frost) – 3:07
# "Too Close to the Ground" (Rick Parfitt, Andrew Bown) – 3:43
# "No Contract" (Parfitt, Bown) – 3:40
# "Win or Lose" (Rossi, Frost) – 2:35
# "[[Marguerita Time]]" (Rossi, Frost) – 3:27
# "Your Kind of Love" (Lancaster, Ferguson Skinner) – 3:24
# "Stay the Night" (Rossi, Frost, Andrew Miller) – 3:02
# "[[Going Down Town Tonight]]" (Guy Johnson) – 3:33


{{Track listing
===2006 reissue bonus tracks===
<ol start="11">
<li>"[[The Wanderer (Dion song)|The Wanderer]]" ([[Ernie Maresca]]) – 3:27
<li>"Going Down Town Tonight" [Re-recorded Single Version] (Johnson) – 3:38 - initial releases contain a different mix of the album version, which was mistaken from the single version.
<li>"I Wonder Why" (Rossi, Frost) – 3:59
<li>"Ol' Rag Blues" [Extended Version] (Lancaster, Lamb) – 4:54 - This contained a different mix and also some different vocals for parts of it, as well as being extended.
<li>"A Mess of Blues" [Extended Version] (Pomus, Shuman) – 4:48
<li>"[[Cadillac Ranch (Bruce Springsteen song)|Cadillac Ranch]]" [Recording during the session for what became The Wanderer single] ([[Bruce Springsteen]]) – 4:15
<li>"Ol' Rag Blues" [Alan Lancaster Version containing a different mix and vocals] (Lancaster, Lamb) – 2:49
<li>"The Wanderer" [Sharon the Nag Mix] (Ernie Maresca) – 3:34 - This was released in 1988 as track 4 of the Who Gets the Love CD single</ol>


| title1 = [[A Mess of Blues]]
===September 2018 Deluxe Edition (CD2) bonus material===
| writer1 = [[Doc Pomus]], [[Mort Shuman]]
#"The Wanderer" - Single
| length1 = 3:23
#"Going Down Town Tonight" (re-recorded version) - Single

#"I Wonder Why" - Original B side to cancelled Too Close to the Ground single
| title2 = [[Ol' Rag Blues]]
#"Ol' Rag Blues" - Extended Version - contains different mix and some different vocals at times, as well as being extended
| writer2 = Alan Lancaster, [[Keith Lamb (musician)|Keith Lamb]]
#"A Mess of Blues" - Extended Version
| length2 = 2:51
#"Cadillac Ranch" - Out-take from planned single - song chosen for single was The Wanderer*

#"Ol' Rag Blues" - original Alan Lancaster Version containing a different mix as well as vocals.
| title3 = Can't Be Done
#FRANCIS ROSSI / BERNARD FROST - "Modern Romance" - Extended Version
| writer3 = Francis Rossi, Bernie Frost
#FRANCIS ROSSI / BERNARD FROST - "I Wonder Why" – Extended Version
| length3 = 3:07
#BERNARD FROST - "The House" - this was recorded in the mid 70s

#BERNARD FROST - "What Do You Want to Hear Today?" - this was recorded in the mid 70s
| title4 = Too Close to the Ground
#FRANCIS ROSSI / BERNARD FROST - "Modern Romance"
| writer4 = Rick Parfitt, Andrew Bown
#FRANCIS ROSSI / BERNARD FROST - "I Wonder Why?"
| length4 = 3:43
#FRANCIS ROSSI / BERNARD FROST - "Jealousy"

#FRANCIS ROSSI / BERNARD FROST - "Where Are You Now?"
| title5 = No Contract
#FRANCIS ROSSI / BERNARD FROST - "That's All Right"
| writer5 = Parfitt, Bown
| length5 = 3:40

| title6 = Win or Lose
| writer6 = Rossi, Frost
| length6 = 2:35

| title7 = [[Marguerita Time]]
| writer7 = Rossi, Frost
| length7 = 3:27

| title8 = Your Kind of Love
| writer8 = Lancaster, Ferguson Skinner
| length8 = 3:24

| title9 = Stay the Night
| writer9 = Rossi, Frost, Andrew Miller
| length9 = 3:02

| title10 = [[Going Down Town Tonight]]
| writer10 = Guy Johnson
| length10 = 3:33

}}

The 2006 remaster has a snippet of Bernie Frost singing "I've Got Tears In My Ears From Lying On My Back In Bed Crying Over You" by [[Homer and Jethro]] at the beginning of "No Contract" and a slightly longer fade, extending the runtime by almost twenty seconds.<ref>{{Citation |title=No Contract |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qTEpF-W2Ck |language=en |access-date=2023-02-28}}</ref>

===2006 remaster bonus tracks===
{{Track listing
| headline =

| title11 = [[The Wanderer (Dion song)|The Wanderer]]
| writer11 = [[Ernie Maresca]]
| length11 = 3:27

| title12 = Going Down Town Tonight [Re-recorded Single Version]
| writer12 = Johnson
| length12 = 3:38
| note12 = initial releases contain a different mix of the album version, which was mistaken from the single version.

| title13 = I Wonder Why
| writer13 = Rossi, Frost
| length13 = 3:59

| title14 = Ol' Rag Blues [Extended Version]
| writer14 = Lancaster, Lamb
| length14 = 4:54
| note14 = This contained a different mix and also some different vocals for parts of it, as well as being extended.

| title15 = A Mess of Blues [Extended Version]
| writer15 = Pomus, Shuman
| length15 = 4:48

| title16 = [[Cadillac Ranch (Bruce Springsteen song)|Cadillac Ranch]] [Recording during the session for what became The Wanderer single]
| writer16 = [[Bruce Springsteen]]
| length16 = 4:15

| title17 = Ol' Rag Blues [Alan Lancaster Version containing a different mix and vocals]
| writer17 = Lancaster, Lamb
| length17 = 2:49

| title18 = The Wanderer [Sharon the Nag Mix]
| writer18 = Ernie Maresca
| length18 = 3:34
| note18 = This was released in 1988 as track 4 of the Who Gets the Love CD single

}}

===2018 Deluxe Edition bonus tracks===
{{Track listing
| headline =
| title1 = The Wanderer
| writer1 =
| length1 =
| note1 = Single
| title2 = Going Down Town Tonight
| writer2 =
| length2 =
| note2 = (re-recorded version) - Single
| title3 = I Wonder Why
| writer3 =
| length3 =
| note3 = Original B side to cancelled Too Close to the Ground single
| title4 = Ol' Rag Blues
| writer4 =
| length4 =
| note4 = Extended Version - contains different mix and some different vocals at times, as well as being extended
| title5 = A Mess of Blues
| writer5 =
| length5 =
| note5 = Extended Version
| title6 = Cadillac Ranch
| writer6 =
| length6 =
| note6 = Out-take from planned single - song chosen for single was The Wanderer
| title7 = Ol' Rag Blues
| writer7 =
| length7 =
| note7 = original Alan Lancaster Version containing a different mix as well as vocals.
| title8 = Modern Romance
| writer8 = Francis Rossi / Bernard Frost
| length8 =
| note8 = Extended Version
| title9 = I Wonder Why
| writer9 = Francis Rossi / Bernard Frost
| length9 =
| note9 = Extended Version
| title10 = The House
| writer10 = Bernard Frost
| length10 =
| note10 = this was recorded in the mid 70s
| title11 = What Do You Want to Hear Today?
| writer11 = Bernard Frost
| length11 =
| note11 = this was recorded in the mid 70s
| title12 = Modern Romance
| writer12 = Francis Rossi / Bernard Frost
| length12 =
| title13 = I Wonder Why?
| writer13 = Francis Rossi / Bernard Frost
| length13 =
| title14 = Jealousy
| writer14 = Francis Rossi / Bernard Frost
| length14 =
| title15 = Where Are You Now?
| writer15 = Francis Rossi / Bernard Frost
| length15 =
| title16 = That's All Right
| writer16 = Francis Rossi / Bernard Frost
| length16 =
}}


==Personnel==
==Personnel==
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'''Status Quo'''
===Status Quo===
*[[Rick Parfitt]] – guitar, vocals
*[[Rick Parfitt]] – guitar, vocals
*[[Francis Rossi]] – guitar, vocals
*[[Francis Rossi]] – guitar, vocals
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{{col-2}}
{{col-2}}

'''Additional personnel'''
===Additional personnel===
*Bernie Frost – backing vocals
*Bernie Frost – backing vocals
*Tim Summerhayes – [[audio engineer|engineering]]
*Tim Summerhayes – [[audio engineer|engineering]]
*Steve Churchyard – engineering
*Steve Churchyard – engineering
*Chris "Props" Ranson – instrument technician
{{col-end}}
{{col-end}}


==Charts and certifications==
==Charts==
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
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{{col-2}}
===Weekly charts===
{|class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|-
|-
! Chart (1983)
! Chart (1983–1984)
! Peak<br />position
! Peak<br />position
|-
|-
! scope="row"| Australian Albums ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=19}}</ref>
{{album chart|Netherlands|26|artist=Status Quo|album=Back to Back}}
| align="center"| 97
|-
|-
{{album chart|Germany4|60|artist=Status Quo|album=Back to Back|id=51}}
{{Album chart|Netherlands|26|artist=Status Quo|album=Back to Back|rowheader=true|accessdate=November 8, 2023}}
|-
|-
{{album chart|Sweden|38|artist=Status Quo|album=Back to Back}}
{{Album chart|Germany4|60|id=51|artist=Status Quo|album=Back to Back|rowheader=true|accessdate=November 8, 2023}}
|-
|-
{{album chart|Switzerland|20|artist=Status Quo|album=Back to Back}}
{{Album chart|Sweden|38|artist=Status Quo|album=Back to Back|rowheader=true|accessdate=November 8, 2023}}
|-
|-
{{album chart|UK|9|artist=Status Quo}}
{{Album chart|Switzerland|20|artist=Status Quo|album=Back to Back|rowheader=true|accessdate=November 8, 2023}}
|-
{{Album chart|UK2|9|date=19831127|rowheader=true|accessdate=November 8, 2023}}
|}
|}


==Certifications==
{{col-2}}
===Certifications===
{{Certification Table Top}}
{{Certification Table Top}}
{{Certification Table Entry |region=United Kingdom |artist=Status Quo |title=Back to Back |type=album |award=Gold |relyear=1983 |certyear=1983}}
{{Certification Table Entry |region=United Kingdom |artist=Status Quo |title=Back to Back |type=album |award=Gold |relyear=1983 |certyear=1983|id=660-1538-2}}
{{Certification Table Bottom |nosales=yes}}
{{Certification Table Bottom |nosales=true}}
{{col-end}}


==References==
==References==
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Latest revision as of 17:06, 26 November 2024

Back to Back
Studio album by
Status Quo
Released25 November 1983
Recorded1983
StudioAIR (Salem, Montserrat)
GenreHard rock, boogie rock
Length32:55
LabelVertigo
ProducerStatus Quo
Status Quo chronology
From the Makers of...
(1982) 		Back to Back
(1983) 		Live at the N.E.C.
(1984)
Singles from Back to Back
  1. "Ol' Rag Blues"
    Released: 2 September 1983
  2. "A Mess of Blues"
    Released: 28 October 1983
  3. "Marguerita Time"
    Released: 2 December 1983
  4. "Going Down Town Tonight"
    Released: 11 May 1984

Back to Back is the sixteenth studio album by English rock band Status Quo and released in November 1983. For the first time in the group's history, it featured four singles, "Ol' Rag Blues" (highest position No. 9), "A Mess of Blues", originally a hit for Elvis Presley (No. 15), "Marguerita Time" (No. 3), and "Going Down Town Tonight" (which reached No. 20 in a different, re-recorded version to the album version.) The album entered the UK chart at its highest position of No. 9.

It was the last album to feature original bass guitarist Alan Lancaster, as well as drummer Pete Kircher. Lancaster co-wrote the first single, "Ol' Rag Blues", with Keith Lamb, lead singer of British bands The Kase, Sleepy Talk and Mr. Toad, and founder and lead singer of Australia's successful glam rock band Hush. Lancaster was angered when the production company declined to release the version featuring his lead vocal (which has since been made available as a bonus track on the 2006 remastered reissue), in preference to that featuring the voice of Francis Rossi. He also made no secret of his dislike of "Marguerita Time", which he thought was too pop-orientated for the group. When they appeared on BBC's Top of the Pops to mime to the single, his place was taken by Jim Lea of Slade, who were also on the programme that week. The Top of the Pops performance was also notable for Rick Parfitt falling into Pete Kircher's drum set near the end of the song while the song kept playing. On the DVD Hello Quo, Parfitt claims that he had planned this action, although many people thought he was drunk. On the same DVD, Alan Lancaster also said that he wasn't so concerned with "Marguerita Time" as he was with "Going Down Town Tonight", which – according to him – was not a Status Quo recording and featured no Status Quo musicians apart from Francis Rossi.

Track listing

[edit]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."A Mess of Blues"Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman3:23
2."Ol' Rag Blues"Alan Lancaster, Keith Lamb2:51
3."Can't Be Done"Francis Rossi, Bernie Frost3:07
4."Too Close to the Ground"Rick Parfitt, Andrew Bown3:43
5."No Contract"Parfitt, Bown3:40
6."Win or Lose"Rossi, Frost2:35
7."Marguerita Time"Rossi, Frost3:27
8."Your Kind of Love"Lancaster, Ferguson Skinner3:24
9."Stay the Night"Rossi, Frost, Andrew Miller3:02
10."Going Down Town Tonight"Guy Johnson3:33

The 2006 remaster has a snippet of Bernie Frost singing "I've Got Tears In My Ears From Lying On My Back In Bed Crying Over You" by Homer and Jethro at the beginning of "No Contract" and a slightly longer fade, extending the runtime by almost twenty seconds.[1]

2006 remaster bonus tracks

[edit]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
11."The Wanderer"Ernie Maresca3:27
12."Going Down Town Tonight [Re-recorded Single Version]" (initial releases contain a different mix of the album version, which was mistaken from the single version.)Johnson3:38
13."I Wonder Why"Rossi, Frost3:59
14."Ol' Rag Blues [Extended Version]" (This contained a different mix and also some different vocals for parts of it, as well as being extended.)Lancaster, Lamb4:54
15."A Mess of Blues [Extended Version]"Pomus, Shuman4:48
16."Cadillac Ranch [Recording during the session for what became The Wanderer single]"Bruce Springsteen4:15
17."Ol' Rag Blues [Alan Lancaster Version containing a different mix and vocals]"Lancaster, Lamb2:49
18."The Wanderer [Sharon the Nag Mix]" (This was released in 1988 as track 4 of the Who Gets the Love CD single)Ernie Maresca3:34

2018 Deluxe Edition bonus tracks

[edit]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."The Wanderer" (Single)  
2."Going Down Town Tonight" ((re-recorded version) - Single)  
3."I Wonder Why" (Original B side to cancelled Too Close to the Ground single)  
4."Ol' Rag Blues" (Extended Version - contains different mix and some different vocals at times, as well as being extended)  
5."A Mess of Blues" (Extended Version)  
6."Cadillac Ranch" (Out-take from planned single - song chosen for single was The Wanderer)  
7."Ol' Rag Blues" (original Alan Lancaster Version containing a different mix as well as vocals.)  
8."Modern Romance" (Extended Version)Francis Rossi / Bernard Frost 
9."I Wonder Why" (Extended Version)Francis Rossi / Bernard Frost 
10."The House" (this was recorded in the mid 70s)Bernard Frost 
11."What Do You Want to Hear Today?" (this was recorded in the mid 70s)Bernard Frost 
12."Modern Romance"Francis Rossi / Bernard Frost 
13."I Wonder Why?"Francis Rossi / Bernard Frost 
14."Jealousy"Francis Rossi / Bernard Frost 
15."Where Are You Now?"Francis Rossi / Bernard Frost 
16."That's All Right"Francis Rossi / Bernard Frost 

Personnel

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Charts

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Chart (1983–1984) Peak
position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)[2] 97
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[3] 26
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[4] 60
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[5] 38
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[6] 20
UK Albums (OCC)[7] 9

Certifications

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Region Certification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[8] Gold 100,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

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  1. ^ No Contract, retrieved 28 February 2023
  2. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 19. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  3. ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Status Quo – Back to Back" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved November 8, 2023.
  4. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Status Quo – Back to Back" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved November 8, 2023.
  5. ^ "Swedishcharts.com – Status Quo – Back to Back". Hung Medien. Retrieved November 8, 2023.
  6. ^ "Swisscharts.com – Status Quo – Back to Back". Hung Medien. Retrieved November 8, 2023.
  7. ^ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved November 8, 2023.
  8. ^ "British album certifications – Status Quo – Back to Back". British Phonographic Industry.
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