The first album since Quo’s original drummer, John Coghlan left the band in 1981.This is the first Status Quo studio album to be fully produced by the band since 1976’s Blue For You.Aside from the anniversary tie in, this album brought a few other landmarks. Add up the numbers! Twenty! Further cementing the object of the campaign, the front cover artwork featured a triangle with roman numerals meaning twenty. Released to coincide with these events on the 12th of April 1982, was their cleverly titled fifteenth studio album 1+9+8+2. The event, broadcast on TV and radio, helped to celebrate twenty years since the forming of a band that would become Status Quo Specifically the combination of guitarist/vocalist Francis Rossi and bassist/vocalist Alan Lancaster. Forty years ago in May of 1982, British rock legends Status Quo played concerts at the Birmingham NEC in aid of the Prince’s Trust, and in the presence of members of the Royal family.
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