Status Quo - Never Too Late (1981) LP - €10,00

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Never Too Late is the fourteenth studio album by English rock band Status Quo, co-produced by the group and John Eden. Released on 13 March 1981, it had been recorded at the same sessions – at Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin – as its predecessor Just Supposin'. It reached number 2 in the UK Albums Chart.

This was the last album to feature drummer John Coghlan, who departed the band at the end of 1981, bringing an end to Status Quo's classic "frantic four" line-up. 

Coghlan was replaced by Pete Kircher, while Andy Bown, who had been contibuting to the band for several years, was also made an official member.

"With Never Too Late, we began to lose the plot," recalled singer and guitarist Francis Rossi. "[Songwriter] Bob Young was cleverly promoted backwards. I've since learned that he was told the band didn't want him anymore."

The bulk of the set, however, was actually cut during the same sessions that produced the previous year's Just Supposin', although it's a struggle to say which of the two came out with the better songs. 

Neither is what one would describe as a classic Quo disc, but nor are they as disposable as some of the band's later releases. 

Indeed, any record that includes the bright bonhomie of "Something 'Bout You Baby I Like," the new album's biggest hit, is sure to have a few things to recommend it. And so it does. Indeed, "Take Me Away" digs deep into the band's past resources to recapture the sound of the full boogie flight, while both "Don't Stop Me Now," and the circuitous mantra of "Riverside" are both standouts. 

Excellent, too, is a cover of "Oh Carol," all the more so since it matches blow for blow the band's last dip into the Chuck Berry songbook, On the Level's "Bye Bye Johnny." Indeed, if Never Too Late has any major problem, it lies in the decision to shove the keyboards so high into the mix.

Only one single was released from the album: a cover of 'Something 'Bout You Baby I Like' (previously recorded by Tom Jones, and Glen Campbell with Rita Coolidge), backed with 'Enough Is Enough'. This was promoted with a music video directed by Godley and Creme.

Side A

A1.  Never Too Late - 4:02  

A2.  Something ‘Bout You Baby I Like - 2:57  

A3.  Take Me Away - 4:51  

A4.  Falling In Falling Out - 4:15  

A5.  Carol - 3:59  

Side B

B1.  Long Ago - 3:50  

B2.  Mountain Lady - 5:06  

B3.  Don’t Stop Me Now - 3:40  

B4.  Enough Is Enough - 2:69  

B5.  Riverside - 5:05 

Companies, etc.

• Record Company – Phonogram International B.V.
• Marketed By – Phonogram
• Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Phonogram International B.V.
• Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Phonogram Ltd.
• Copyright © – Phonogram Ltd.
• Pressed By – PRS Ltd.
• Printed By – Robert Stace
• Published By – Dump Music
• Published By – Eaton Music
• Published By – Screen Gems-EMI Music Ltd.
• Published By – Vistamark
• Published By – Status Quo Publishing
• Published By – Quarry Music
• Published By – Jewel Music Ltd.
• Published By – Jewel Music
• Recorded At – Windmill Lane Studios
• Lacquer Cut At – The Town House

Credits

• Backing Vocals – Bernie Frost
• Co-producer – John Eden, Status Quo
• Coordinator [Co-ordinated By] – Kim Shepherd
• Cover [Concept By], Design – Alan Schmidt, Pat Carroll
• Illustration – Chris Moore
• Keyboards – Andy Bown
• Management – Quarry Productions Ltd.
• Performer [Status Quo] – Alan Lancaster, Francis Rossi, John Coghlan, Rick Parfitt
• Photography By – Paddy Eckersley

Notes

Release:  1981

Format:  LP, Vinyl

Genre:  Hard rock

Label:  Vertigo

Catalog#  6302104

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)

Cover:  Goed (VG)

Prijs: €10,00