Rick Parfitt - Over And Out (2018)

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Rick Parfitt - Over And Out (2018)

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Rick Parfitt - Over And Out (2018)

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Year : 2018
Style : Melodic Rock
Country : United Kingdom
Audio : 320 kbps + scans
Size : 270 mb


Bio:

Richard John Parfitt, OBE (12 October 1948 – 24 December 2016) was an English musician, best known as a singer, songwriter and rhythm guitarist for rock band Status Quo.Parfitt began his career in the early 60s, playing in pubs and holiday camps. He joined Status Quo in 1967 when they were looking for an additional singer. He wrote songs for the band and remained with them for 49 years. He occasionally guested with other bands, and recorded an unreleased solo album in 1985. In 2016 Parfitt retired from touring with the band due to ill health, and died in December of that year.In 1963 Parfitt was playing guitar and singing in The Prince of Wales Feathers, a pub on Warren Street in Camden, London, when his father was approached by an agent from Sunshine Holiday Camp on Hayling Island, who gave Parfitt a performing job. At the camp Parfitt joined Jean and Gloria Harrison – performing as the double act The Harrison Twins – to form a cabaret trio called The Highlights. Following the season, the Harrison Twins' manager Joe Cohen — who had been one of the Keystone Cops — arranged for The Highlights to perform at Butlins in Minehead. Here, Parfitt met future Status Quo partner Francis Rossi, who was playing with Alan Lancaster and John Coghlan in a band called The Spectres (soon to be renamed Traffic Jam) — a forerunner to Status Quo. "I remember wandering over there one afternoon for the first time and watching them rehearse," Parfitt recalled. "I may still have been in my silver lamé suit, which I used to wear all the time. They were playing [Chuck Berry's] 'Bye Bye Johnny' and it sounded absolutely fantastic."After Parfitt befriended the band, their manager Pat Barlow invited him to join, as they needed another singer.In 1967, Traffic Jam changed their name to The Status Quo (they soon dropped the definite article and later still would often be known simply as 'Quo'), beginning Parfitt's almost 50-year career in the band. Early successes came with the Rossi-penned hit "Pictures of Matchstick Men". The single became the group's only Top 40 hit in the United States, peaking at number twelve on the Billboard Hot 100.Though the follow-up was the unsuccessful single, "Black Veils of Melancholy", they had a hit again the same year with a Marty Wilde and Ronnie Scott (songwriter) song, "Ice in the Sun", which climbed to number eight.The band's 1972 album Piledriver, which reached number 5, spent a total of 37 weeks on the UK Albums Chart.

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Rick Parfitt gave almost 50 years of his life to Status Quo and his passing in December 2016 was felt keenly both within and beyond the world of entertainment. Quo are a household name and Parfitt, alongside Rossi, was the band’s driving force and public face.In all those years, Parfitt had never released any solo material. One had been recorded back in 1985, due to be called ‘Recorded Delivery’. It featured the future Quo rhythm section of bass player John “Rhino” Edwards and drummer Jeff Rich. But the album never saw the light of day.It seems that Parfitt recorded another, unknown to almost everyone, in Turkey in June 2016 whilst recovering from a heart attack. After his demise, further musicians were drafted in to complete the record. This included Queen’s Brian May, Muse bassist Chris Wolstenholme, Rick Parfitt Jnr, “Rhino” Edwards (again) and Alan Lancaster.And so, 52 years after the start of Rick Parfitt’s musical career, and 15 months after his death, we receive his debut solo album. It has been a long wait.Whilst the collection shows off the more crafted and mellow side of Parfitt’s talents, there is plenty of boogie and groove to satisfy fans of the band’s glory years as well.Album opener, ‘Twinkletoes’ is a fair benchmark for the material. It’s a melodic rocker with catchy chorus, layered up vocals and neat arrangements. Brian May pitches up on this one to offer a few fine flourishes on the lead breaks.However, ‘Lonesone Road’ and later ‘Fight For Every Heartbeat’ both offer something more substantial. The former finds a mark much closer to the pure Quo sound of their mid 70’s output. The boogie infused track changes up into a proper old swaggering foot-stomper with about a minute left on the clock. Likewise, ’Fight For Every Heartbeat’ is a stripped back rocker. The gorgeous riff jumps straight from the gatefold-sleeve era of something like ‘On The Level’. Hints of honky-tonk piano keep the rock ‘n’ roll rumbling. And that crystal-clear guitar solo could be Snowy White, circa ‘Bird of Paradise’.In recent times Parfitt has contributed less regularly as a writer to the Quo canon. So it’s interesting that the best of the tracks here hark back in style to Quo’s best Parfitt-penned cuts like ‘Whatever You Want’, ‘Mystery Song’ and ‘Rain’.Whether Parfitt knew the end was near or whether ‘Over And Out’ just captures a reflective moment is a moot point. There is no doubt, however, that these haunting lyrics about the end of the road chime with the hallow clang of his own epitaph. “The signal’s gone weak/it’s all looking bleak” – sentiments almost too raw and tender to bear in the same way Freddie Mercury laid bare on ‘These Are the Days of Our Lives’. The voice seems more fragile than elsewhere on the album. The track was played at Rick’s funeral. It must have split the mourners wide open. Poignant does not come close.The melodic moments return with ‘When I was Falling in Love’ which carries a flavour of Roy Orbison in the vocal phrasing.‘Without You’ is the album’s lead track. An odd choice really, because Parfitt takes on an unexpected falsetto for the first half of the song which, to be fair, he only just about gets away with. The rest of the track builds nicely around a ballad written for his son, flowing on sweeping strings and swelling backing vocals.A brace of rockers follow. ‘Long Distance Love’ has a tight, choppy riff, cut under a driving drum track. Nice, tidy guitar solo from Rick.Then ‘Everybody Knows How To Fly’ smashes in on a typical three-chord blues boogie. Harmonica fills out the stomp for good measure, just in case you though there wasn’t enough swing kicking off. Loads of dirty slide crawling all over the chorus. If some of the material on this album strikes a sentimental tone, this is offers a counterpoint through an uplifting, optimistic lyric. And Parfitt’s vocals are excellent.Next up, ‘Lock Myself Away’ is a lovely little 50’s inspired rock ‘n’ roll ditty: snapped drums, tinkled ivories and doo-wopped backing vocals. A simple joy.The album closer is an old song. A version of ’Halloween’ appeared on a Quo b-side ‘Who Gets The Love’ in 1988. It’s the most complex track here and has keyboards to the fore, notably a snaking bass synth, together with the odd pained vocal and a harder guitar sound tan anywhere else. There’s a vaguely spooky feel to the track and it doesn’t quite fit the template of the album.Sentiment can often take over when posthumous material of a recently departed musician is released. There’s no danger of that here. Even the most hard-hearted reviewer would thrill to the infectious tones of ‘Everybody Knows How To Fly’ and ‘Fight For Every Heartbeat’, or melt at the melancholy of the title track. Despite the odd wobbly moment or so, this is a fine album in its own right.

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Rick Parfitt - guitar , vocals (Ex-Status Quo) (R.I.P. 2016)

Tracklist:

01. Twinkletoes
02. Lonesome Road
03. Over And Out
04. When I Was Fallin In Love
05. Fight For Every Heartbeat
06. Without You
07. Long Distance Love
08. Everybody Knows How To Fly
09. Lock Myself Away
10. Halloween

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