Whatever You Want

Album: Whatever You Want (1979)
Charted: 4
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Songfacts®:

  • This massive Quo UK hit is one of few to feature Dropped D tuning.
  • It was written my guitarist Rick Parfitt and keyboardist Andrew Bown who got drunk whilst writing it. After writing, Bown took their work upstairs in order to "Quo it up" by removing some chords, leaving just two during the verses! He came back down and claimed - "I think I've done it!"
  • Francis Rossi claims he was never really very happy with his guitar solo on the track.
  • This tune has advertised almost everything including megastores such as Argos among countless others.
  • The German Techno group Scooter sampled much of the track on their 2008 album Jumping All Over The World (although no relation to RAOTW) and went as far as to shoot a video with Quo. >>
    Suggestion credit:
    Greg - Barking, England, for all above

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