After their initial inception as a schoolboy band named The Scorpions in 1962 & following a number of band name & personnel changes Status Quo eventually hit the charts in 1968 with the massive hit single Pictures of Matchstick Men' However it wasn't until they ditched their psychedelic duds & took on the denim accompanied by a radical gear-shift from teenage-friendly pop to out-&-out electric boogie that they came into their own defining the rock music genre for many throughout the 1970s A raft of hugely successful albums followed that are still held in awe by an army of loyal fans; the release of Piledriver' in 1972 heralded a violet patch in which twelve consecutive long-players charted in the UK top 10 The classic Frantic Four' lineup of Rossi Parfitt Lancaster & Coghlan started to disintegrate in 1981 & eventually imploded after Live Aid in 1985 Although Quo have gone on to post over sixty UK chart hits in no less than six separate decades this publication focuses on those days of glory song by song from their earliest recordings until the demise of the classic line-up