Status Quo: Live At The Apollo Theatre

 

Record Info:

Manufactured: VERTIGO
Catalogue Number: 6641 590
Released: 1976


Production by: Status Quo
Production Assistant and Mixed by: Damon Lyon-Shaw
Engineer: Steve Lillywhite
Photography: Terry O’Neil, Robert Ellis
Sleeve Design: Hopgnosis
Graphics: Alwyn Clayden
Recorded at the Apollo Theatre Glasgow, 27/28/29 October 1976 with the Stones Mobile
Musicians:
    John Coghlan
    Francis Rossi
    Richard Parfitt
    Alan Lancaster
    Bob Young: Harmonica
    Andy Bown: Keyboards

Side 1

 

Junior’s Wailing
White – Pugh

Backwater
Parfitt – Lancaster

Just Take Me
Parfitt – Lancaster

I
s There A Better Way
Lancaster – Rossi

In My Chair
Rossi – Young
 

Side 2

 

Little Lady / Most Of The Time
Parfitt - Rossi – Young

Forty-Five Hundred Times
Rossi - Parfitt
 

Side 3

 

Roll Over Lay Down
Rossi - Young – Parfitt – Lancaster – Coghlan

Big Fat Mama
Rossi – Young

Caroline
Rossi – Young

Bye Bye Johnny
Berry

 

Side 4

 

Rain
Parfitt

Don’t Waste My Time
Rossi – Young

Roadhouse Blues
Doors
 

Record Sleeve Front

Record Sleeve Back

Record Label Side 1

Record Label Side 3

 

Record Label Side 2

Record Label Side 4

 

Inside

 

Inside Sleeve 1 Front

 

Inside Sleeve 1 Back

Inside Sleeve 2 Front

 

Inside Sleeve 2 Back

1.1 - Junior’s Wailing

Love me baby, love me when I'm down
I said love me baby, love me when I'm down
Yeah you gotta love me baby
'cos there's no use hanging around

I said put your arms around me like a sunbeam round the sun
I said put your arms around me like a sunbeam round the sun
Yeah, you gotta love me woman
'cos my life has just begun

Love me baby, love me when I'm down
Oh, love, love me baby, love me when I'm down
Yeah you gotta love me baby
'cos there's no use hanging around

Put your arms around me like a sunbeam round the sun
I said, put your arms around me like a sunbeam round the sun
You gotta love me woman
'cos my life has just begun

Love me baby, love me when I'm down
Oh, love, love, love me baby, love me when I'm down
You gotta love me baby
'cos there's no use hanging around, around, around, yeah

Love me baby, love me when I'm down
Love me baby, love me when I'm down
Oh you gotta love me baby
'cos there's no use hanging around

1.2 - Backwater

Down at Backwater junction
Rolling down the line
In the dark early morning
I heard the one-forty-nine
I was walking down the highway
Needed somewhere to go
A lady laid beside me
And she invited me home
She led me cold, tired and hungry
Down the backwater road

In a house on the corner
looking over the track
I woke up with a fever
And a pain in my back
She was lying there beside me
My fever started to grow
Had a funny feeling
But the lady said no
The lover needs a doctor
Down the Backwater Road

Whatcha' lookin' for
Whatcha' lookin' for
Lady do you know whatcha' lookin' for
Was I wrong to play along
Lady was I right or lady was I wrong

Backwater doctor
You've got me breathing in time
It's ten-thirty in the morning
And I'm feeling alright
I went back to my lady
But I wasn't to know
Lady left this morning
And she's not coming home
I was cold when she left me
Down the Backwater Road

1.3 - Just Take Me

I am just a poor man, got nowhere to go
All my leaves have fallen, left me all alone
If I was a rich man, if I was a king
I would give you all I have, give you everything
If you'd just take me, just take me now
If you'd just take me

Never seen my daddy, died when I was two
Mama did the best she could, taught me all she knew
Said that love was everything, tears came to her eyes
Never knew the meaning, now I realise
Love is all you need, all you need now
If you just take me

I'm trying hard to get you, I'm not the only one
Never had a big car, but I'm not on the run
If love has got a meaning see it in my eyes
If you see the beginning, then you'd realise
Love is all you need, all you need now
If you just take me

I am just a poor man, got nowhere to go
All my leaves have fallen, left me all alone
If I was a rich man, if I was a king
I would give you all I have, give you everything
If you'd just take me, just take me now
If you'd just take me

Just take me
Just take me now
Won't you just take me

Just take me
Just take me now
Won't you just take me

1.4 - Is There A Better Way

Is there a better way
Is there a better way
Is there a better way ahead
Or just another day

There's got to be a way
To make a better day
I'm gonna find away
To make a better day

You're never gonna be the one to hold me down
You're never gonna be the one to hold me down
There never was a better way with you around
No matter what I do
Do what you got to do
But do it now because the the time
Is running out on you

You've got to find a way
To make a better day
You've got to live and learn
To fight another day

I'm never gonna be the one who put you down
I'm never gonna be the one who put you down
You never know there may be someone in the crowd
There may be someone in the crowd

Is there a better way
Is there a better way
Is there a better way ahead
Or just another day

Maybe you'll never know
A better way to go
I've got a feeling
You don't really want to know

I'll never let you be the one to hold me down
I'll never let you be the one to hold me down
There never was a better way with you around
There never was a better way

I'll never let you be the one to hold me down
I'll never let you be the one to hold me down
There never was a better way with you around
There never was a better way

1.5 - In My Chair

I saw her talking, now
My ears were burning
Her feet startet walking, now
They started turning
My eyes were half open
But she didn't see me there
We ran along, walking 'cross the roof-tops
In my chair

Had a car in my pocket
And we started moving
A man in a helmet said
"What's that you're using"
My eyes were half open
But we didn't see him there
Put the car back in my pocket
And I'm still here in my chair

My teeth were laughing, now
We couldn't stop smiling
We danced to the Mystery Band
Without even trying
My eyes were half open
But we didn't see them there
We ran along, walking 'cross the roof-tops
In my chair


2.1 - Little Lady / Most Of The Time

Well I saw my little lady walking down the street
And I asked her, where you going to?
Well I saw my little lady walking down the street
She said she'd found somebody new
Found myself all alone
Ain't no fun on your own
Now I'm like a rolling stone

So I met another lady and so many more
Didn't really know which way to go
So I met another lady and so many more
But no-one did I get to know
Found myself all alone
Ain't no fun on your own
Now I'm like a rolling stone

Well I saw my little lady walking down the street
Now you know where she was going to
Well I saw my little lady walking down the street
Now you know what I've been going through
Found myself all alone
Ain't no fun on your own
Living like a rolling stone

I was like a rolling....
I was like a rolling stone

Walking alone, a street with no phone
Could I be younger most of the time?
Doing her wrong, taking so long
Should I do all things in my own time?
May I be wiser, yes, than most men will ever be?
May I be younger most of the time
Most of the time, most of the time
Most of the time, most of the time

May I be wiser, yes, than most men will ever be?
May I be younger most of the time
Most of the time, most of the time
Most of the time, most of the time
Most of the time, most of the time
Most of the time, most of the time
Most of the time, most of the time

2.2 - Forty-Five Hundred Times

There's nobody on the end of my line
I'm in time but somebody's missing
Maybe I can find a hand for my hand
If I find a well for my wishing
Be my friend, be my friend

It gets lonely on a table for two
Laughing on your own can be no fun
Even people that are talking to you
Remind you that you're really with no-one
Be my friend, be my friend

There's nobody on the end of my line
I'm in time but somebody's missing
Maybe I can find a hand for my hand
If I find a well for my wishing
Be my friend, be my friend

Forty-five hundred times I told you how much I care
Forty-five hundred times I told you how much I care
Problems halved are the problems that we can share
White lies in our eyes, together not really there

Forty-five hundred times I told you you can lean on me
Forty-five hundred times I told you you can lean on me
Though it's taken a long time for you to see
Where we're at is the right place for us to be

I sure want to stay here, it sure feels fine
I feel I could be here a long long time
Now that I've made it, I don't want to fade it
Now that I've made it with you

We came a long way, a slow way too
Up from the down way and back to you
Now that I've made it I don't want to fade it
Now that I've made it with you
 

3.1 - Roll Over Lay Down

When I got home that night early one morning
Seeing the note written in ink pinned to the door
Taking a drink cool from the fridge from the table
I drank a toast you were the most the night before

Roll over lay down and let me in
Roll over it's a long way where I've been
Roll over lay down and let me in
Roll over lay down

When I get home tomorrow night after this morning
Show me the care you showed in the note the night before
Maybe I won't take a drink from the table
Reckon I'll lay me straight down the floor

Roll over lay down and let me in
Roll over it's a long way where I've been
Roll over lay down and let me in
Roll over lay down

When I get home tomorrow night after this morning
Show me the care you showed in the note the night before
Maybe I won't take a drink from the table
Reckon I'll lay me straight down the floor

Roll over lay down and let me in
Roll over it's a long way where I've been
Roll over lay down and let me in
Roll over lay down

3.2 - Big Fat Mama

Say you need me, say you need me
Tell me that you want my love
Say you will be mine and I am yours
You think that you're way above me
I'm telling you that I can see
All those things that you might wanna be
I am yours tonight
You be mine tonight

You keep telling me you're not having me
I'm telling you that I can see
All the things that you might wanna be
Say you need me, say you need me
Tell me that you want my love
Say will be mine and I am yours
I am yours tonight
You be mine tonight

I got a big fat Mama
With a big fat motor
Really thinks she's something else
But I love that woman
Like fish loves the water
And there is nobody else
I'm gonna tell you woman better do as you're told
If you don't, I'm gonna bringing you down
I've got a big fat Mama
And there's no one else around

I said say you need me
Come on and say you need me
I said say you need me

Say you need me
Come on and say you need me
I said say you need me

3.3 - Caroline

If you want to turn me onto
Anything you really want to
Turn me onto your love sweet love

If the night-time is the right time
Anytime of yours is my time
We can find time for love sweet love

Come on sweet Caroline
You're my sweet Caroline
You know I want to take you
I've really got to make you
Come on sweet Caroline
Take my hand together we can rock-n-roll

When I'm thinking of you sleeping
I'm at home alone and weeping
Are you keeping your love sweet love

Do you still care when I'm not there
Do you really wish I was there
Can I come there for love sweet love

Come on sweet Caroline
You're my sweet Caroline
You know I want to take you
I've really got to make you
Come on sweet Caroline
Take my hand together we can rock-n-roll

3.4 - Bye Bye Johnny

Well she drew out all her money from the Southern trust
And put her little boy aboard a greyhound bus
Leaving Louisianna for the golden west
Down came the tears from her happiness
Her own little son, named Johnny B. Goode
Was gonna make some motion pictures out in Hollywood

I said Bye Bye Bye Bye
I said Bye Bye Bye Bye
I said Bye Bye Johnny Bye Bye Johnny B. Goode

She remembered making money out from gathering crops
Buying Johnny's guitar at a broker shop
As long as he would play it by the railroad side
And wouldn't get in trouble she'll be satisfied
Never thought there'd ever come a day like this
When she got to give her son a goodbye kiss

I said Bye Bye Bye Bye
I said Bye Bye Bye Bye
I said Bye Bye Johnny Bye Bye Johnny B. Goode

Well she finally got the letter she was dreaming of
Johnny wrote and told her he had fell in love
As soon as he was married he would bring her back
And build a mansion for them by the railroad track
Every time they heard a locomotiv roar
They'd be standing, a waiting by the kitchen door

I said Bye Bye Bye Bye
I said Bye Bye Bye Bye Bye
I said Bye Bye Johnny Bye Bye Johnny B. Goode

I said Bye Bye Bye Bye
I said Bye Bye Bye Bye
I said Bye Bye Johnny Bye Bye Johnny B. Goode

I said Bye Bye Bye Bye
I said Bye Bye Bye Bye
I said Bye Bye Johnny Bye Bye Johnny B. Goode

I said Bye Bye Bye Bye
I said Bye Bye Bye Bye
I said Bye Bye Johnny Bye Bye Johnny B. Goode

I said Bye Bye Bye Bye
I said Bye Bye Bye Bye Bye
I said Bye Bye Johnny Bye Bye Johnny B. Goode


4.1 - Rain

How can I see what I'm leaving for
How can I give what I gave before
How can you tell me that you want me to stay
How can I stay when I'm trying to say
That I can live without the rain
Yes I can live without the rain

How can I feel what I'm trying to feel
How can move when I'm heel to heel
You're always shouting about the doubt in my eye
But I can't answer 'cos my eyes are so dry
Now I can live without the rain
Yes I can live without the rain

I can live without the rain
That's falling on my head
Rain that's falling on my head

Rain that's falling
Rain that's falling
Rain that's falling on my head

I started thinking back to you know when
I'd like to send a line but then again
How can I write you when there ain't no light
I'm feeling thight tonight and that's alright
Now I can live without the rain
Yes I can live without the rain

4.2 - Don’t Waste My Time

You spend my money
You drink my best red wine
You think it's funny
To see me all the time
Sitting with my head hanging down
Treating me just like a clown
You spend my money
But come on honey don't waste my time

When you get older
You'll see what you have done
You hung on my shoulder
And loved me just for fun
But some day when I'm older too
I'm gonna come and make fool out of you
You spend my money
And honey
You sure did waste my time

You spend my money
You drink my best red wine
You think it's funny
To see me all the time
Sitting with my head hanging down
Treating me like a clown
You spend my money
Come on honey don't waste my time

4.3 - Roadhouse Blues

Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel
Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel
Yeah, we're going to the roadhouse
We're gonna have a real good time

Yeah, the back of the Roadhouse they got someone to love
Yeah, the back of the Roadhouse they got someone to love
That's sort of people like to go down slow

Let it roll, baby, roll, let it roll, baby, roll
Let it roll, baby, roll, let it roll, all night long

I shoulda made you, I shoulda made you
Give up your vows, give up your vows

Save my city, save my city
Right now, oh baby, baby

I woke up this morning, I got myself a beer
I woke up this morning, and I got myself a beer
The future's uncertain, and the end is always near

Let it roll, baby, roll, let it roll, baby, roll
Let it roll, baby, roll, let it roll
All night long