A two-and-a-half hour documentary about Status Quo? Well, if there isn't a three-and-a-half hour documentary about Wishbone Ash on offer, this will have to do. Actually, only the most hard-hearted will decline to indulge this colossal piece of Quo worship, recounting the band's epic history, showcasing some glorious Shark Sandwich-style album covers and the bizarrely psychedelic early hit, Pictures of Matchstick Men in 1967. The band soon shifted to what Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias called "heads down no nonsense mindless boogie". Defiantly, magnificently, Quo took their stand and never shifted. They did not see a need to change; they became part of the establishment, and as for any irony, or lack of irony, in their name … well, that is one of many subjects in which Rick Parfitt and Francis Rossi are cheerfully uninterested. Parfitt himself looks content with life, very laidback, though Rossi is more animated, jabbering away like a Paul Whitehouse character. The film interviews some prominent Quo fans, such Paul Weller, who revere their inspired simplicity. ELO's Jeff Lynne hammers snobby critics who knock Quo for having just three chords and then give "10 stars to the Ramones who've got two". Exactly.
Hello Quo – review
It's two and a half hours about Status Quo. And I like it I like it I like it I like it, says Peter Bradshaw