Famous in the Last Century
- Famous in the Last Century
Infobox Album
Name = Famous In The Last Century
Type = studio
Artist = Status Quo
Released = April 2000
Recorded =
Genre =
Length = 43:39
Label =
Producer =
Reviews = Allmusic Rating|2|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:d9fpxq90ldse~T0 Review]
Last album = "Under the Influence"
(1999)
This album = "Famous in the Last Century"
(2000)
Next album = "Heavy Traffic"
(2002)
"Famous in the Last Century" is an album by the British rock band Status Quo, released in 2000 to largely negative reviews.Fact|date=February 2007 According to the band's autobiography, the idea to record it came from their manager David Walker, who said that they should celebrate the millennium with an album containing twenty of their favourite hits from the last century. To quote leader Francis Rossi, 'Or, put another way, another bloody covers album! We went along with it, as usual, but inside I felt like a fraud...for me it was the worst Quo album there had ever been - or ever will be!' [1]
Ironically it still reached No. 21 in the UK charts, a much better position, and sold much better, than the previous Status Quo album of mainly original material, 'Under the Influence'. Two singles from it, 'Mony Mony' and 'Old Time Rock'n'Roll', were minor hits.
A DVD of the same name and featuring the same songs was filmed at the Shepherd's Bush Empire on 27 March 2000. It is reportedly lip synced.Fact|date=February 2007
Track listing
# "Famous in the Last Century" (Bown) 1:04
# "Old Time Rock and Roll" (Jackson/Jones) 2:57
# "Way Down" (Martine) 2:51
# "Rave On" (Petty/Tilghman/West) 2:51
# "Roll Over Beethoven" (Berry) 3:07
# "When I'm Dead and Gone" (Gallagher/Lyle) 3:11
# "Memphis Tennessee" (Berry) 2:31
# "Sweet Home Chicago" (R. Johnson) 2:44
# "Crawling from the Wreckage" (Parker) 2:42
# "Good Golly Miss Molly" (Blackwell/Marascalco) 2:05
# "Claudette" (Orbison) 2:01
# "Rock'n Me" (Miller) 2:46
# "Hound Dog" (Lieber/Stoller) 2:19
# "Runaround Sue" (DiMucci/Maresca) 2:29
# "Once Bitten Twice Shy" (Hunter) 3:40
# "Mony Mony" (Bloom/Gentry/James/Cordell) 2:58
# "Famous in the Last Century" (Bown) 1:15
References
1. Rossi, F., Parfitt, R., XS All Areas: The Status Quo autobiography (Sidgwick & Jackson, 2004)
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