Status Quo - Hello Quo (Limited Edition) [DVD] [2017]

Great to watch for Quo fans, I bought the 2 disc version which I recommend as it has some great extras including Francis and Alan reminiscing in peckham and Rick walking round the old Butlins camp he worked in with his old cabaret friends. The Shepperton studio session with the reunited Frantic Four is marvelous too. The documentary covers the bands career up to the Frantic Four reunion and is a really fascinating insight into my favourite band and in my opinion one of Britain's greatest ever bands.

Brilliant from start to finish. More poignant now that we have lost both Rick and Alan but it gives you the proper insight to how music must be and the journey from their side of the story. There are so many music connections in this documentary and how their lives cross paths too with the interviews. Whether you're a Quo fan or not, its still an epic watch!

This film gives real insight into the band I loved as a boy growing up in the 70's!! It's just a shame so much of the performance footage is taken from lipsynced TV appearances... surely there must be plenty of live performance footage in the archives (like that superb WYW performance on the Richard Digence show!!) The interviews with the band members as they are today (well, in 2012 actually) are interesting with plenty of humour although, as someone else pointed out, no one will ever get through Rossi's cocky facade!! It was great to have full interviews with the original rhythm section too, even if Nuff is looking rather frail these days, possibly due to the stress of the breakup and subsequent legal wrangles! The bonus disc is a bit of a waste of space really, as I was hoping for rare archive footage of live performances rather than up to date rather sloppy clips of Rick & Francis reminiscing over the old days! Couldn't complain for the price I paid though, but I wouldn't recommend paying much over a fiver!

Running for two and a half hours, Hello Quo! documents the fifty year history of the band. All of the key moments of their career are covered, the early psychedelic hits, the change to no-frills rock in the early 1970's, the years of success, the years of excess, the split in 1984, Live Aid, suing Radio 1, Rick's quadruple-heart bypass and then onto the present day, which finds them still recording and gigging, and as keen as ever.One of the best things about the documentary is that all the members of the group have a voice, and both Alan Lancaster and John Coghlan have plenty of stories to recount.In addition to Quo members past and present, there's a number of familiar faces including Brian May, Jeff Lynne and Paul Weller who have their own opinions and insights into what makes the group tick.Apart from the main documentary, there's another three hours of bonus footage, of which the Shepperton Final Cut feature is the jewel in the crown. Running for 45 minutes, it's a chance to see Parfitt, Rossi, Lancaster and Coghlan reunited and performing some favourites from their back catalogue.This is a great package and a fitting tribute to an enduring band.

this is a very nice documentry for ANY quo fan HOWEVER i was lead to belive this contained much more vintage footage from the late 60s and the 70s then this did, it contained very little footage from the old days and i have been waiting for years now for some quo stuff to come out from that era ( 68 to 84) it would do me just fine, i dont need all the interviews and stuff like that becouse i have other dvds and footage with the same or similar stories on it, the best part of this was when lancaster got out of the car to meet rossi and co, like i said its a very, very well done doc with a great bonus disc of a jam with lancaster from 2012 but i would prefer a dvd set by quo presenting live footage from 68 to 84, just my opinion, i love quo, i hope that uk tour this march goes well but quo has not played new york now in 10 years and i have little hope they will be back, ive only seen quo twice once in 1997 and again in 03, before 97 they had not been here since 76 and i was to young then to have seen em, so far if the end is near as francis suggests im glad to say i saw them twice!!!!!

Having been a Quo fan since the early 80's this tells a fantastic open story of the ups, downs and more ups of Quo.Understanding the battles, self-inflicted issues and a largely negative media they have endured over the years makes it all the more astonishing that they are without doubt one of the greatest bands in the world.There are only a few bands who can get a crowd going like Quo.As well as the regular stories there are a number of very poignant reminders that we do only live once, and sometimes you need to swallow your pride, put your differences aside and focus on the future. There are lessons to be learned by us all in this video .... Quo fan or not.The final clips of the 'original' 4 members playing together in 2012 was brilliant .... please please please get together for at least one more gig.Thanks for everything Quo .... you are amazing guys.

Went to the screening of the film in the presence of the band members at Leicester Square a week before release. This dvd is a must of you are a fan of the band and at some two and a half hours long, is terrific value. It is full of humour and information that may surprise you, along with previousely unseen footage, it should have you glued to your seat waiting for the next instalment to appear before your very eyes. The end of the film signs off with the original four members getting back together at Shepperton Studios, to play one of their old songs from the Ma Kelly's album after years apart. This alone made it worthwhile as it quite rightly brought a rapturous applause from the audience to see them play in the line up that got them where they are today. Thoroughly entertaining and in my opinion, highlights that Status Quo are up there amongst the great bands this country has produced. Buy it, you won't be disappointed I promise .