On the Level

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On the Level
On the Level cover
Studio album by Status Quo
Released February 1975
Recorded 1974
Genre Blues Rock
Length 37:55
Label Vertigo Records
Professional reviews

All Music Guide 4/5 stars Review

Status Quo chronology
Quo
(1974)
On The Level
(1975)
Blue for You
(1976)

On The Level is a Status Quo album featuring Francis Rossi, Richard Parfitt, Alan Lancaster and John Coghlan. Album cover art features band members in the Ames room, and on the original vinyl release, the inner gatefold sleeve consisted of informal photos members of the group had taken of each other.

When the album was released, the group were more or less at the peak of their career, record sales-wise. An edited version of Down Down had been released as a single in November 1974 and shortly after Christmas gave the group their only No. 1 single in the UK to date, and the album entered the chart at No. 1. All tracks were written or co-written by the group themselves apart from "Bye Bye Johnny", a Chuck Berry song.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Little Lady" (Parfitt) - 3:01
  2. "Most of the Time" (Rossi/Young) - 3:16
  3. "I Saw the Light" (Rossi/Young) - 3:37
  4. "Over and Done" (Lancaster) - 3:55
  5. "Nightride" (Parfitt/Young) - 3:50
  6. "Down Down" (Rossi/Young) - 5:24
  7. "Broken Man" (Lancaster) - 4:14
  8. "What to Do" (Rossi/Young) - 3:05
  9. "Where I Am" (Parfitt) - 2:43
  10. "Bye Bye Johnny" (Berry) - 4:47


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