The Boring Queens New years honours list

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So the big news.....

Sir Jean Luc Picard

Jenson 'bum fluff' Button MBE

AND those two old fuckers from the Quo....

Francis 'bald cunt' Rossi OBE and Richard de la Parfait aka Rick Parfitt OBE

Not one of them have British names apart from Jenson who has a comedy name anyway so he dosn't count.

There's also awards for people who look after spackers and do lots of great charity work ..... but we're not interested in them anyway.

I'm disapointed that Liz hasn't awarded a CBE to me for services to the dump.....maybe next year.

[ThrillsNSpills]

I have no idea if Quo's stuff was even released in the States since the 60's.
Apparently they had staying power in England but from what I've read it's one four five blues based stuff. I liked some of their old stuff but it's all I've heard from them.

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I larve them ... not as much as Chas 'n' Dave though.

[chefcraig]

I have no idea if Quo's stuff was even released in the States since the 60's.
Apparently they had staying power in England but from what I've read it's one four five blues based stuff. I liked some of their old stuff but it's all I've heard from them.

The only time I came close to buying one of their albums was when they put out that live record in 1977. And that was out of curiosity, because the cover looked so much like REO's live record to my stoned, seventeen year old eyes.

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They were great at Live Aid. Other than "Pictures of Matchstick Men" and "Rockin All Over The World", I couldn't name another of their tunes if my life depended on it. It's a shame they were never more popular in the States.

[Shaun Ponsonby]

I have no idea if Quo's stuff was even released in the States since the 60's.
Apparently they had staying power in England but from what I've read it's one four five blues based stuff. I liked some of their old stuff but it's all I've heard from them.

Still got a huge following in the UK, in fact they were officially named the Hardest Working Band or something a few weeks ago.

They've done some great stuff, but they're unfairly seen as a guilty pleasure these days. If they would have split up late 70s/early 80s and got back together for their last album (the excellent "In Search of the Fourth Chord") then I'm convinced they wouldn't be seen like that.

[Hardrock69]

I would venture to say (not being anything but a Brit by ancestry) that they deserve all the praise they get.

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I love the Quo ...

I went to see them at Selhurst Park in London on thier End of the road tour , it was a good bill with Chas 'n ' Dave on as well.

Just recently I was on a website (can't remember the name) where Francis Rossi was asked about that gig and he said that he couldn't remember anything about it because he was that stoned and how he was disapointed because that was supposed to be thier last ever live gig in London. There was also a story of him being carried out of the dressing room unconsious just before the show.

So yes ... they deserve thier OBE's if for nothing more than for surviving the 70's and 80's.