A cover of Mott The Hoople's Golden Age of Rock And Roll.

Golden Age of Rock And Roll

Golden Age Of Rock And Roll

Quollaboration's cover of Status Quo's Take Me Away

Take Me Away

An original track from Quollaboration about the 70s into the 80s - where it all went wrong :)

Make It Real

A tongue in cheek Christmas song from Quollaboration. We love it really!! Please feel free to share.

Oh No It's Christmas

Here we have a double speed, rocked up version of Quo’s Rock’n’Roll recorded by Quollaboration. The full story behind this version is below.
On Friday 17th October 1980 I went to the record store to buy Status Quo’s latest offering, Just Supposin’. Back then there was an agonizing wait between buying it and getting it home to listen to it. I’m sure that many will agree that the effort put into this ritual added to the overall enjoyment of the process, and it allowed you to read the cover and look at the vinyl itself to identify the ‘fast rockers’ and the slowies. 
Imagine the excitement of seeing a song called Rock’n’Roll as the last track of side 2 – the traditional location of classic extended workouts such as 4500 Times, Slow Train and Mystery Song. And then the surprise of looking at the vinyl and the dark black, lack of density of the grooves which normally would indicate a ballad. Surely not!
But it was a ballad! And it had what sounded like whistles! And it was released as a single after not this album but the next one! Weird!
I always liked the irony of writing a song about how the critics always said Quo’s songs sounded the same, but in a completely different style. Nice! And despite being in a different style, it was still a hit. So ya boo sucks, critics!
However, we at Quollaboration HQ wondered what the song would sound like as a rocker, so we did our own version in a more traditional Quo style. It’ll never be a classic song, but we hope you find some interest in our version. Quo-oh-oh-oh-oh
This is dedicated to my original partners in Quollaboration who, for different reasons, can no longer be part of the team, and to my new partners who’s first involvement is this track.

Rock'n'Roll

This is Quollaboration’s version of Rick Parfitt’s song ‘I Miss My Baby’ from his unreleased solo album, Recorded Delivery. The album was recorded in the mid-80s and the production of the original demonstrates that. With the success of Rick’s more recent Over and Out solo album, we wondered if some of his older tracks might benefit from a rockier style, so we did this affectionate homage to demonstrate how it might sound. To give full demonstration, we extracted Rick’s vocal from the best available bootleg version of the original track using Artificial Intelligence technology. Hope you enjoy it!

There is no intention to infringe copyright with this production, we simply wanted to demonstrate what could be achieved. With access to the original multitracks it would be possible to produce an updated, rock version of tracks from Recorded Delivery. We’d love to hear it!

We would like to doff our caps to and thank the following, without whom this recording would not have been possible:
Quoincidence for mastering of the bootleg track to the best possible quality and technical advice on running speeds.
Peterprog for Artificial Intelligence extraction of Rick’s vocal

I Miss My Baby

I Miss My Baby (with Rick Parfitt on vocals)

Here's our version of Proud Mary. The first track Al and I played together many decades ago. We did one version of this which was ok but we wanted to do our definitive version..... and here it is.

Proud Mary

Here is our version of the Status Quo psychedelic classic Pictures of Matchstickmen done in a classic rock style similar to a version by ex-Quo bassist Alan Lancaster. If you like this one, have a listen to our other tracks including originals, covers of Quo songs and other similar classic rock artists.

Pictures of Matchstickmen

A heavier version of the Status Quo Lies track.

Lies

A cover of the Status Quo track Unspoken Words from the Piledriver album. Quollaboration is a collaboration between Status Quo fans to cover Quo tracks and to write original material in the same genre.

Unspoken Words

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