The credits...Although Status Quo have released many cover versions during their carreer most of their songs were written by band members and close friends.
Frontmen Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt (both founding members of Status Quo and still with the band), former bass player Alan Lancaster (founding member, left 1985), keyboarder Andrew Bown (1976 - today), John 'Rhino' Edwards (1986 - today), and the 'inofficial' members Bob Young (first collaboration 1969) and Bernie Frost (first collaboration 1973) created a vast amount of songs for the band.
Other members, such as John Coghlan (founding member, left 1981), Roy Lynes (founding member, left 1970), Jeff Rich (1986 - 2000), and Matt Letley (2000 - today) contributed as well. The only band member without songwriting credits is former drummer Pete Kircher (1982 - 1985).
This page lists all songs of the major songwriters in alphabetical order (official releases only). Not listed here are bootleg-only tracks and songs written by band members which have not been released under the name of Status Quo / Spectres / Traffic Jam (e.g. solo albums). Re-recorded songs are listed only once.
Below you find the songs written by these authors (* marks authors whose songs the band cover - as opposed to songs written for or with the band):
Songwriter
Songs 178 97 74
60
60 58 32
17 8 7 7 7
6
5 4 3 3 3 3
3
2 2 2 2 2
2
(to be continued...)
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