Hello! (album)

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Hello!
Studio album by Status Quo
Released	September 1973
Genre	Hard rock
Length	39:08
Label	Vertigo
Professional reviews
All Music Guide Review
Status Quo chronology
Piledriver (1972) Hello! (1973) Quo (1974)

Hello! is the sixth album by the British rock band, Status Quo. Released in September 1973, it was the first of three Quo albums to top the UK Albums Chart, as well as their first album on which all tracks had been written by the group themselves. (Bob Young was not an official member, but the group's roadie and harmonica player, as well as co-writer with Francis Rossi of several songs throughout their career).

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.

Initial copies of the record on vinyl came with a large black and white poster of the group.

A reissue of the album on CD in 2005 included a bonus track, "Joanne", which had been the B-side of "Caroline" when issued as a single in September 1973. "Caroline" was the group's first single to reach the UK top five. No other singles were issued from the album, although a live version of "Roll Over Lay Down" appeared on a three-track EP in May 1975, and reached No. 9 in the UK Singles Chart.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Roll Over Lay Down" (Rossi/Young/Parfitt/Lancaster/Coghlan) - 5:45
2. "Claudie" (Rossi/Young) - 4:06
3. "Reason for Living" (Rossi/Parfitt) - 3:46
4. "Blue Eyed Lady" (Parfitt/Lancaster) - 3:54
5. "Caroline" (Rossi/Young) - 4:18
6. "Softer Ride" (Parfitt/Lancaster) - 4:02
7. "And It's Better Now" (Rossi/Young) - 3:20
8. "Forty-Five Hundred Times" (Rossi/Parfitt) - 9:53

[edit] 2005 reissue bonus track

1. "Joanne" (Lancaster/Parfitt) - 4:06

v • d • e Status Quo Francis Rossi • Rick Parfitt • Andy Bown • John 'Rhino' Edwards • Matt Letley John Coghlan • Alan Lancaster • Pete Kircher • Jeff Rich • Roy Lynes Albums (UK) Picturesque Matchstickable Messages • Spare Parts • Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon • Dog of Two Head • Piledriver • Hello! • Quo • On the Level • Blue for You • Live • Rockin' All Over the World • If You Can't Stand the Heat • Whatever You Want • Just Supposin' • Never Too Late • 1+9+8+2 • Live at the N.E.C. • Back to Back • In the Army Now • Ain't Complaining • Perfect Remedy • Rock 'Til You Drop • Live Alive Quo • Thirsty Work • Don't Stop • Under the Influence • Famous in the Last Century • Heavy Traffic • Riffs • The Party Ain't Over Yet • In Search of the Fourth Chord • More... Hit Singles (UK) "Pictures of Matchstick Men" • "Down the Dustpipe" • "Rockin' All Over the World" • "Whatever You Want" • "In the Army Now" • "The Beginning of the End" See also Status Quo discography