Caroline (Status Quo song)

"Caroline"
Single by Status Quo
from the album Hello!
B-side Joanne
Released 31 August 1973 (1973-08-31)
Format 7"
Genre Rock, hard rock, boogie rock, rock and roll
Length 3:43
Label Vertigo
Writer(s) Francis Rossi, Bob Young
Producer(s) Status Quo
Status Quo singles chronology
"Gerdundula"
(1973)
"Caroline"
(1973)
"Break the Rules"
(1974)
Status Quo chronology
"She Don't Fool Me"
(1982)
"Caroline (live)"
(1982)
"Ol' Rag Blues"
(1983)

"Caroline" is a single released by the British rock band Status Quo in 1973. It was included on the album Hello!.[1]

It was written by Bob Young and Francis Rossi on a table napkin in the dining room of a hotel in Perranporth, Cornwall, in 1970.

It was the second song Status Quo played at their Live Aid gig in 1985.

The song inspired Apollo 440's 1999 single "Stop the Rock".[2]

The song was reprised, in 2014, for the band's thirty-first studio album Aquostic (Stripped Bare). It was featured in the ninety-minute launch performance of the album at London's Roundhouse on 22 October, the concert being recorded and broadcast live by BBC Radio 2 as part of their In Concert series.[3][4]

Singles

Charts

Chart (1973) Position
UK Singles Chart 5
Sweden 5
Germany 36
Belgium 9
Norway 12
Ireland 11
Chart (1982) Position
UK Singles Chart 13
Ireland 12

References

  1. "Status Quo discography". statusquo.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-01-04.
  2. Warwick, Kutner & Brown (2004, p. 75)
  3. "Status Quo Concert Setlist at Roundhouse, London on October 22, 2014 - setlist.fm". setlist.fm. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  4. "Status Quo - Acoustic". Radio 2 In Concert. bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 25 February 2015.


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