Status Quo - Live Alive Quo (1995) [FLAC]
{2006 reissue}

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TRACKS:

01. WHATEVER YOU WANT (4:29) 
(Andrew Bown/Rick Parfitt)

02. IN THE ARMY NOW (4:13) 
(Rob Bolland/Ferdi Bolland)

03. BURNING BRIDGES (3:52) 
(Andrew Bown/Francis Rossi)

04. ROCKIN' ALL OVER THE WORLD (3:37) 
(John Fogerty)

05. CAROLINE (3:57) 
(Francis Rossi/Bob Young)

06. ROADHOUSE MEDLEY (20:25)
Roadhouse Blues (John Densmore/Robbie Krieger/Ray Manzarek/Jim Morrison)
The Wanderer (Ernie Maresca)
Marguerita Time (Bernard Frost/Francis Rossi)
Living on an Island (Rick Parfitt/Bob Young)
Break the Rules (John Coghlan/Alan Lancaster/Rick Parfitt/Francis Rossi/Bob Young)
Something 'bout You Baby I Like (Richard Supa)
The Price of Love (Don Everly/Phil Everly)
Roadhouse Blues (John Densmore/Robbie Krieger/Ray Manzarek/Jim Morrison)

07. DON'T DRIVE MY CAR (4:04) 
(Andrew Bown/Rick Parfitt)

08. HOLD YOU BACK (4:31) 
(Rick Parfitt/Francis Rossi/Bob Young)

09. LITTLE LADY (3:27) 
(Rick Parfitt)

10. ROADHOUSE MEDLEY (SINGLE VERSION) [bonus track] (4:56) 
The Wanderer (Ernie Maresca)
Marguerita Time (Bernard Frost/Francis Rossi)
Living on an Island (Rick Parfitt/Bob Young)
Break the Rules (John Coghlan/Alan Lancaster/Rick Parfitt/Francis Rossi/Bob Young)
Something 'bout You Baby I Like (Richard Supa)

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ORIGINAL LP SLEEVE NOTES:

"25 years of 1FM" proclaim the jingles as BBC Radio 1 celebrates its silver birthday this year. Yet if you pause to think about it, there would be nothing to celebrate if bands like Status Quo, The Bee Gees, The Rolling Stones, The Who and Genesis and singers like Rod Stewart, Cliff Richard, Paul Simon and Michael Jackson hadn't made all that great music, which was consistently played by legendary D.J.'s Tony Blackburn, Kenny Everett, Dave Lee Travis, Noel Edmonds, Johnnie Walker, Simon Bates and, of course, Alan Freeman to entertain the listeners to Britain's favourite radio station.
In the intervening 25 years there have been literally thousands of others who have made and played music which has been reflected on the Radio 1 airwaves. Indeed, the station has played a large part in discovering and nurturing potential big name groups via recording sessions in our own studios, at Maida Vale, and by recording concert performances for transmission in our "In Concert" series.

This concert is very special because Status Quo have been making music even longer than I have been producing Radio 1 programmes. One of the proudest moments in Radio 1's history was providing the world's broadcasters with the sound for Live Aid in 1985 and it was not surprising that Status Quo were chosen to kick off the momentous occasion.

On August 30th 1992 in Sutton Park, near Birmingham, the band and the station came together again in front of 125,000 of its listeners, on a very wet and windy afternoon, for a unique celebration of 25 years of Radio 1 FM, The Party In The Park.

If you were not able to be there, hear the radio broadcast, or see the subsequent celebratory TV programme, then here is your chance to rock til you drop to the music of one of Britain's best, and most fun loving, rock'n'roll bands, Status Quo.

In the words of Alan Freeman, our only O.A.P.DJ, "As long as this band go on doing it, all of us will be rockin' all over the world for ever and ever amen, not 'arf!"

Jonny Beerling Controller BBC Radio 1 FM, September 1992

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Presentation by Dave Thompson from All Music Guide:

A decade on from their last in-concert album, Status Quo return to the concert hall for only their third live set, the unequivocally titled, and triumphantly track listed "Live Alive Quo". And, from the moment the guitars tear the top of your head away, ushering in the opening "Whatever You Want," it's apparent that no matter how many demons might assail the band's studio output, in concert they remain the same denim'n'dandruff brigade they always were. "Burning Bridges," that most infuriatingly contagious of rock & roll jigs, the driving "Caroline," the inevitable "Rockin' All over the World," and a scintillating return to the mid-'70s standby of "Roadhouse Blues" are all undeniable peaks, while a closing salvo that kicks off with "Don't Drive My Car" finds the band locked into the kind of groove that even their heyday found rare. Of course you cannot, and would not, compare "Live Alive Quo" to the sound of the band in its prime -- the 1971 Swedish radio recording, the 1973 BBC broadcast, and the 1977 "Live" album are all vastly superior to this. But the continuity is peerless, and the excitement levels are just as high. Go on, give it a go! [The 2006 reissue of the album includes bonus tracks.]