Quid Pro Quo

My song du jour this week is Status Quo's Living On An Island. According to the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles, this was a hit in 1979.

I have no recollection of it being around then at all, I'm sure it was earlier. I say that because I remember a teacher using it as an example of something in what must have been 1974.

Do you know?

Anyway, I love Quo. I once saw them supporting Queen and though they were hugely unfashionable even then, they were ace. I think they might have been trendy for about 10 minutes at the time of Ice In The Sun and Technicolour Dreams, and the F-C mobile phone message alert Pictures Of Matchstick Men. When they eschewed psychedelia for rock, it was great, but then came punk and the credibility was gone for good.

Still, so many great hits: Rain, Margarita Time, Old Rag Blues, Down The Dustpipe, Down Down, Red Sky, Burning Bridges, Jam Side Down - everyone a winner, everyone almost the same, but different. I'm a huge fan.

So here it is, pop pickers.