Medley (or Potpourrie): Mixture of different music tracks in one song. (thats what the dictionairy says) Better said, a medley is a hit-mixture, a short form of different hits in one song. A well-known band of medleys was the band: Stars on 45, who were known only by their medleys.

Since many years Status Quo are including medleys in their live set. A band with so many hits like Status Quo cannot play each hit song live - the setlist would last for hours - impossible. So they came up with the idea to cover some of their hits in medleys. Here you have all medleys of Status Quo.

1984 Milton Keynes Medley: This medley was included in the live-setlist of the "End of the Road" - tour and included the following songs: Mystery Song - Railroad - Most of the Time - Wild Side of Life (complete version) - Slow Train

1986 Mystery Medley: it was the continuation of the Milton Keynes Medleys from 1986 onwards with this songs: Mystery Song - Railroad - Most of the Time - Wild Side of Life - Rollin Home - Again and Again - Slow Train

1986 The Quo Christmas Cake Mix: This medley was included on the english 12"-maxi-single release "Dreamin", which was released in november 1986. This medley contained the following songs: The Wanderer - Whatever you want - Something about you baby I like - Roll over lay down - Rain - Break the rules - Rockin all over the world

1990 Anniversary Waltz Part 1: This medley was released in september 1990 to celebrate the 25th anniversary and included cover versions of Rock n Roll classics: Let's dance - Red River Rock - No particular place to go - The Wanderer - I hear you knocking - Lucille - Great Balls of fire. The single was a big hit and reached No.2 in the british single-charts.

1990 Anniversary Waltz Part 2: the follow-up single of the Anniversary Waltz 1 medley. Again with cover versions of Rock n' Roll classics: Rock n' Roll Music - Lover please - That'll be the day - Singing the Blues - When will I be loved - Let's work together - You keep a knockin - Long tall Sally. This single reached again the TOP20 of the british single charts notching up at No.16.

1991 Anniversary Waltz Part 1 Spain: This Promo-CD featured the following songs: Let's dance - Red river rock - Rock n Roll music - Lover please - Whatever you want - Rockin all over the world

1991 Anniversary Waltz Part 2 Spain: This Promo-CD featured the following songs: Rockin all over the world - Whatever you want - Rock n Roll Music - Lover please - Lets dance - Red river rock - Great balls of fire - Rock n Roll music - Lover please - What you're proposin' - Let's dance - Red river rock - Great balls of fire

1991 Rock til you drop medley: This medley appeared on the b-side of the 'Rock til you drop'- maxi-single/maxi-CD. A medley of the 4 biggest Quo hits: Caroline - Down, down - Whatever you want - Rockin all over the world.

1992 Roadhouse Medley: from the 1992 live-album "Live Alive Quo" the song "Roadhouse-Medley" was released as a single. The following songs were included in this medley: The Wanderer - Marguerita Time - Living on an island - Break the rules - Something about you baby I like - The Price of Love. Der Medley selbst war in dem Song "Roadhouse Blues" integriert, von wo er seinen Namen ableitet.

On TV shows medleys were performed too. Most notable these 2 TV appearances:

29.03.2000: At the performance in the show "Gottschalks TV-Welt" Status Quo played a medley of the songs: Caroline - In the army now - Rockin all over the world. Because Drummer Jeff Rich had left the band and no new drummer was there the Status Quo producer Mike Paxman was on the drums.

06.04.2000: At the "Eddison Award" which Status Quo got from the dutch television, Status Quo played the following songs in an Amsterdam TV studio: In the army now - Whatever you want - Rockin all over the world. Again Mike Paxman was the drummer.

Basically no medley, but a mix of songs was the album-trailer, which was included on the single "The Way it goes" released in 1999. This trailer contained songs of the forthcoming album "Under the Influence", which was due to be released in a few weeks at the time. On this trailer you could here bits from the new album. (Songs: 20 Wild horses - Under the influence - Round and round - Little white lies - Little me and you - Keep em coming).

The end? No !! Below another 2 medleys from other bands, which included Status Quo songs.

1981 The Headbangers: The british band The Headbangers released in 1981 a single called "Status Rock" (Label: Magnum Nr. Mag 206). This song was a medley of the Quo songs: Again and Again - Rockin all over the world - Down, down - Paper Plane - Caroline - What you're proposin - Whatever you want - Pictures of Matchstickmen - Rockin all over the world

1995 Piledriver: The german coverband Piledriver played a rousing medley on their cassette-album "Piledriver" (1995 Mirage Records Nr. 720054). This songs were included in the medley: Caroline - Paper Plane - Mystery Song - Railroad - Again and again - Down, down - Rockin all over the world - Bye bye Johnny

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