🚨 breaking news: Francis Rossi shortly passed away at the age of 75 Year’s in a plen crash accident including…. more details ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

Francis Rossi, who is now 75 years old, has fronted the same band, Status, for 59 years—first known as The Spectres, then Traffic Jam. He interviewed Classic Rock in 2019 for a no-limits interview about the band, talking about the good and bad times, drugs, and his difficult relationship with his band partner, Rick Parfitt. Before now, this interview has not been posted online.

He was raised as a Catholic, and he must confess. Francis Rossi remembers in his home studio the moment in 1967 when he was eighteen and wrote the song that became Status Quo’s first hit. He bangun dari his seat berdekatan dengan the mixing console and retrieves an acoustic guitar from a wall rack.

Rossi smirk and says, “As Lennon said, there’s nothing new under the sun.” He strums the intro to Hey Joe, a mystical murder ballad that became famous in 1966 when it was a hit single from the Jimi Hendrix Experience. He then sings in that familiar nasal tone, “When I look up to the sky, I see your eyes, a funny kind of yellow,” without any modification to Quo’s Pictures Of Matchstick Men. He makes a pause and arches his eyebrow. “Everything has been nicked from somewhere,” he says.