{"id":5508,"date":"2003-05-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-29T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodvale.co.uk\/francil-rossi-status-quop\/"},"modified":"2003-05-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-05-29T23:00:00","slug":"francis-rossi-status-quo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/francis-rossi-status-quo\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Rossi – Status Quo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Francis Rossi<\/strong> from Status Quo talks to Fergus Byrne<\/strong><\/p>\n

THIS man does the school run, the Times and Guardian crossword, goes to the gym, cares about cloning, doesn\u2019t believe in the devil and likes country music! He is also the lead singer in the world\u2019s other, greatest rock ‘n’ roll band, and he\u2019s been speaking to the Marshwood Vale Magazine<\/em>.<\/p>\n

FRANCIS Rossi, lead singer and guitarist with Status Quo, took a little time out from his gruelling world tour to talk to The Marshwood Vale Magazine last week. Nicknamed GOMORR, the \u2018Grand Old Man of Rock ‘n’ Roll\u2019, the man who rocks when he gets on the big stage hasn\u2019t let the party life addle his brain. I catch up with him while he\u2019s doing the Times crossword, before collecting his kids from school. We talk about family and it leads us to religion. \u201cI used to be highly religious,\u201d he says, \u201cand I don\u2019t believe in a God anymore that beats everyone up, I don\u2019t believe in the devil, I don\u2019t believe the supreme being is all-seeing all-loving, it\u2019s all shit!\u201d<\/p>\n

Like many parents, he sees the conflict in what is taught in school and what\u2019s happening in the world today. \u201cIt\u2019s confusing to them,\u201d he says. \u201cThe current problems in the world with the Muslim thing – the way we\u2019re all taught our religion\u2019s right and they\u2019re taught theirs is right and they\u2019re gonna die for God and they\u2019re gonna kill some infidels for God – as though God can\u2019t deal with that itself!\u201d<\/p>\n

A conversation with Francis Rossi covers a multitude of subjects and it\u2019s obvious he has pondered fundamental questions while experiencing many cultural attitudes. We eventually talk about music and I ask if he is influenced by his children\u2019s musical tastes. \u201cSome of them,\u201d he says. \u201cMy eldest son is into musical theatre and opera…I like them to have as eclectic a taste in music as possible.\u201d He feels we can be too precious about music, citing a radio station advert he saw the other day, which claimed they only played \u2018good music\u2019. \u201cLet\u2019s not intellectualise about music, become elitist about it, it\u2019s just music!\u201d he exclaims.<\/p>\n

Status Quo have weathered their fair share of storms over the years and their seemingly iconic position amongst those that have \u2018survived\u2019 Rock ‘n’ Roll make them important. Not only for the fact that they have consistently played sell-out shows since their formation, but because even if you haven\u2019t grown out of the need to be, \u2018too cool to like Quo\u2019, they represent that which Rock ‘n’ Roll was rooted in \u2013 the blues, boogie, and rock\u2018n\u2019roll party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Francis Rossi from Status Quo talks to Fergus Byrne THIS man does the school run, the Times and Guardian crossword, goes to the gym, cares about cloning, doesn\u2019t believe in the devil and likes country music! He is also the lead singer in the world\u2019s other, greatest rock ‘n’ roll band, and he\u2019s been speaking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-5508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts","category-features","tag-fergus-byrne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}