Status Quo announce Brighton tour date

The Londoners have announced a show at the Brighton Centre for December 3, 2020.

Tickets go on sale today at 10am.

The band have been Rocking All Over The World for more than five decades.

The five-piece broke onto the British music scene in 1968, having been performing under a few different guises before settling on the name Status Quo.

Having lost founding member Rick Parfitt in 2016... the guitarist died at his home in Marbella on December 24... the group have continued to tour with new guitarist Richie Malone

They even released a new album, Backbone, earlier this month and new material is sure to make up a part of next year’s tour.

The record is the first to be released since Parfitt’s death, and their first without the enigmatic guitarist.

In 1968 the group released their debut album, Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo.

It would become the first of 33 studio records the group has released to date.

But it wasn’t until 1970’s Ma Kelly’s Greasy Spoon that the band came into the public eye.

While the record failed to chart, the single Down the Dustpipe peaked at number 12 in the charts and stayed in the top 50 for a whopping 17 weeks.

It gave the band a platform to grow on, and grow they did.

The band would release an album every year up until 1983’s Back to Back, which would be their last for three years.

It was 1977’s Rockin All Over the World that sent the group stratospheric.

The record’s lead single, of the same name, is still one of the best known songs in rock music and is played in concerts and on radio stations regularly, even today.

The group are regulars in Brighton, often announcing the city as a date on UK tours.

And as long as their fans keep wanting to hear the classics, with a couple of new tracks thrown in for good measure, then the band will continue to come back.

Tickets for Status Quo at Brighton Centre on December 3 start from £41.50.

For more information visit www.brightoncentre.co.uk.