What You're Proposing
| "What You're Proposing" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Status Quo | ||||
| from the album Just Supposin' | ||||
| Released | 3 October 1980 | |||
| Genre | Rock[1] | |||
| Length | 4:13 | |||
| Label | Vertigo | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Francis Rossi, Bernie Frost | |||
| Producer(s) | Status Quo and John Eden | |||
| Status Quo singles chronology | ||||
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"What You're Proposing" is a single released by the British rock band Status Quo in 1980. It was included on their album Just Supposin'.[2]
The B-side is "A B Blues", a non-album instrumental studio jam. Some later pressings of this single mis-credited Andy Bown as Andy Brown on the B-side composer's credit. The initial pressing run of 75,000 copies of this single were issued with a colour picture sleeve.
The song was reprised, in 2014, for the band's thirty-first studio album Aquostic (Stripped Bare). It was featured in the ninety-minute launch performance of the album at London's Roundhouse on 22 October, the concert being recorded and broadcast live by BBC Radio 2 as part of their In Concert series.[3][4]
Track listing
- "What You're Proposing" (Rossi/Frost) (4.13)
- "A B Blues" (Rossi/Parfitt/Lancaster/Coghlan/Bown) (4.33)
Charts
| Chart (1980) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australia (Kent Music Report)[5] | 62 |
| Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[6] | 4 |
| Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[7] | 7 |
| France (IFOP)[8] | 34 |
| Germany (GfK)[9] | 7 |
| Ireland (IRMA)[10] | 2 |
| Netherlands (Dutch Top 40) | 7 |
| Netherlands (Single Top 100)[11] | 4 |
| Spain (AFYVE)[12] | 3 |
| Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[13] | 2 |
| UK Singles (OCC)[14] | 2 |
| Zimbabwe (ZIMA) [15] | 14 |
References
- ^ "Status Quo's 10 greatest songs, ranked". Goldradiouk.com.
- ^ "Status Quo discography". Statusquo.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-01-04.
- ^ "Status Quo Concert Setlist at Roundhouse, London on October 22, 2014". Setlist.fm. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
- ^ "Status Quo - Acoustic : Radio 2 In Concert". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
- ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
- ^ "Status Quo – What You're Proposing" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40.
- ^ "Status Quo – What You're Proposing" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50.
- ^ "InfoDisc : Les Tubes de chaque artiste commençant par S". Infodisc.fr. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
- ^ "Status Quo – What You're Proposing" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts.
- ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – What You're Proposing". Irish Singles Chart.
- ^ "Status Quo – What You're Proposing" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
- ^ "Listas de superventas: 1980". 29 October 2020.
- ^ "Status Quo – What You're Proposing". Swiss Singles Chart.
- ^ "Status Quo: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company.
- ^ "World singles charts and sales TOP 50 in 58 countries: STATUS QUO". World singles charts and sales TOP 50 in 58 countries. Retrieved 2020-10-29.