Backbone

Biography

Backbone is the thirty-third studio album by British rock band Status Quo. It was released on 6 September 2019 and debuted at number six on the UK Albums Chart (and at top spot on the Album Sales Chart, which subtracts streaming activity from specific album purchases in all digital and physical formats). It was the band's 25th UK top ten album and their highest-charting album of original material since 1+9+8+2 (1982). Backbone also entered the Swiss album charts at number two, and the German album charts at number six, giving the band their highest album chart position in the latter, despite a long history of enduring popularity. Frontman Francis Rossi stated in a 2022 interview with Classic Rock magazine that Backbone was likely to be Status Quo's final studio album. Rossi blamed the shift to streaming as the predominant means of consuming music and called out Spotify in particular: "It’s something we’ve sweated over and they’re giving you a quarter of a penny per stream? Fuck you." He described the situation in the industry as "even worse than when we were all getting ripped off in the sixties". However, he did not write off the possibility entirely and made it clear that the band still has "one in us".

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