Hello! - STATUS QUO****

Roll Over Lay Down/Claudie/Reason For Living/Blue Eyed Lady/Caroline/Softer Ride/And Its Better Now/Forty-Five Hundred Times

After several years in the doldrums boogie rockers Status Quo hit their high watermark of popularity with Hello. Features the UK top ten hit singles Caroline and Roll Over Lay Down. (UK:1)

“A continuation of their previous LPs and all the LPs to come. So what? They are what they are, a solid hard blues rock jam band and they are great at it.”

“Status Quo rolled through much of the simplistic Hello with heads down confidence, targeted directly at the long hair, denim clad punters. The LP opens with the shuffle action of Roll Over Lay Down, while adding Caroline, and the no-frills Reason For Living. However, the best is saved for the very end, as the album culminates in the spirited Forty-Five Hundred Times. This strong closing cut builds up well over nine-minutes, and served as an energetic concert staple for Quo throughout the years.”

“Dynamic, driving, carefree, careful, light as the breeze yet heavy as a steel chassis and clad in a sleeve as black as hot rubber. At this point the Quo were flying.”

“Nice light rollicking boogie - and one of Quo's better albums. The never ending nature of Forty-Five Hundred Times is great, the hits are grand but some of the first few tracks are grindingly repetitive. But that's Quo for you.”

“Very good boogie party rock album. Status quo hit their first No.1 with this recording which contains hits like Roll Over Lay Down and Caroline. Hello is not a perfect album but it's an ultimately entertaining one that is based on simple straight forward fast paced rock 'n' roll.”

“During this time period, Quo were on top of the world, or at least on top of Europe. They finally found their niche with Piledriver and with this album they mastered their science. Roll Over Lay Down gets things started and is followed by Claudie, which is one of Francis Rossi's finest moments. Reason For Living is a hopping little Quo piece and Blue Eyed Lady must be the most underrated Quo track ever. It shows that these guys could really play. Side two starts with the Quo classic: Caroline. Softer Ride keeps on rockin' and And It's Better Now quietens things down until the nine minute boogie explosion of Forty-Five Hundred Times, guaranteed, to be some of the best you have heard from any rock group.”