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Status Quo - Backbone
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"Waiting for a Woman" (Francis Rossi / Robert Keith Young) – 4:28
"Cut Me Some Slack" (Rossi / John "Rhino" Edwards) – 4:22
"Liberty Lane" (Rossi / Edwards) – 3:42
"I See You're in Some Trouble" (Rossi / Young) – 3:47
"Backing Off" (Andy Bown / Rossi) – 4:12
"I Wanna Run Away with You" (Rossi / Young) – 3:23
"Backbone" (Rossi / Edwards) – 3:03
"Better Take Care" (John David) – 3:34
"Falling off the World" (Leon Cave) – 3:29
"Get out of My Head" (Richie Malone) – 3:24
"Running out of Time" (Bown / Rossi) – 3:29
Digipak bonus tracks
"Crazy Crazy" (Rossi) – 3:18
"Face the Music" (Malone) – 3:27
Status Quo Band Members / Musicians
Francis Rossi – lead guitar, vocals
Richie Malone – rhythm guitar, vocals
John "Rhino" Edwards – basses, guitars, vocals
Andy Bown – keyboards, guitar, vocals
Leon Cave – drums & percussion
Francis Rossi – producer, mixing
Andy Brook – engineer, recording, mixing & mastering
Backbone is the 33rd studio album by British rock band Status Quo. It was released worldwide on 6 September 2019 and debuted at no. 6 on the UK albums chart, making it the band's 25th UK top ten album and their highest-charting album of original material since 1982's eponymous 1+9+8+2. Backbone also entered the German and Swiss album charts at positions 6 and 2, respectively. The success of Backbone in Germany rendered its album chart position the band's highest ever in the country, despite a long history of enduring popularity.
Backbone is the first album to be released by the band since the death of rhythm guitarist Rick Parfitt, who had been credited on every prior Status Quo album. Speaking about the album, frontman Francis Rossi expressed both pride in the content and sadness regarding Parfitt's lack of involvement, saying "This new material had to be seriously good. Quo have achieved so much and meant so much to too many people for the quality to slip now[...] Losing Rick [Parfitt] was hard to bear but, through Richie Malone, who was inspired to pick up a guitar by him, we can not only keep going but actually pick up the pace." He concluded: "I wasn’t sure I had another album in me but I couldn’t be more proud of Backbone."
