Francis Rossi is ‘very tempted’ to make another Status Quo album – Fakazakamp

Francis Rossi typically will get “tempted” to make a brand new Standing Quo album.

The legendary rock ‘n’ roll group’s co-founder admits he would like to report new music however he’s adamant there isn’t a cash in releasing information after the group’s final LP, 2019s’ ‘Spine’, was streamed by solely 3.5 million individuals.

Talking to Document Collector journal, he mentioned: “I get very tempted as a result of I benefit from the creativity with the band and making new product, nevertheless it’s like banging your head in opposition to the wall. Far an excessive amount of will get taken out of the cake earlier than the band obtain something. I believe our final album, ‘Spine’, obtained three-and-a-half million streams which is seemingly f***-all. Three-and-a-half-million information would have been, wow, however one thing’s mistaken there, you understand? So, with out sounding too mercenary, there’s everybody concerned within the recording, manufacturing and promotion and also you simply cannot make that cash again. I grew up in retail and once I discuss to my kinfolk about this, they simply suppose it is not good enterprise sense.

He added: “There’s one thing in opposition to the grain about the entire course of: you possibly can’t generate the revenue that the effort and time that go into writing and recording an album ought to get.”

The 73-year-old rocker beforehand mentioned it is “very disheartening” that artists are being underpaid by streaming giants.

He mentioned: “The issue that everybody forgets is that now it is all about streaming. Folks do not buy an album anymore and the business itself is making an attempt to utterly eliminate the CD so each time somebody performs a stream of ours we get 1 / 4 of a penny!

“That is unimaginable; you simply cannot operate. There’s something very disheartening about that. We will make an album, I believe we did presumably 100,000 ultimately [with ‘Backbone’], 3,500,000 million streams, beautiful, however meaning the band did not make any cash on the three.5 million streams.

“Except the Standing Quo store sells what it is obtained within the store the store’s gonna shut.

‘It could possibly’t not shut and that is the place everyone from my era, from McCartney to U2, the Stones and whomever else are going, good day, except you do one thing.”