Chords for Status Quo - Gerdundula live acoustic and interview, GMTV, 29/11/94

Sales exceeding a hundred million.
They've recorded 44 British hit singles.
They've made more than a hundred appearances on the British music institution, Top of the Pops,
more than any other group.
And now with nearly 30 years in the business, they're back on tour.
They've just released their new single, Restless.
Please welcome, bright as two buttons,
Greg Farfet and Francis Rossi, status quo, Rare Indigo this morning.
As you would say, Rare Indigo.
Well, I tell you, you missed your vocation.
You [Eb] should have been Breakfast Time presenters.
Yeah, I think you were right.
I mean, when do you have a social life?
I just don't go to bed.
I reckon that's the way [Ab] because_
You look well on no sleep.
[G] You're holding your face up then.
Someone's [N] doing it.
Liquid lunches. _
I'm only 17.
I just, you know, look at me.
You just look about 19.
Talking about age, Thirsty Work is the title of the tour.
Is it increasingly thirsty work the older you get?
Not really, no.
I mean, the actual physical demand required for the stage set is not too [Eb] bad, really.
We do anything between an hour and 45 and two hours.
And it comes fairly easy.
We've done it plenty of times before.
There's all the travelling as well that goes with it.
That's the worst part about it.
If you could eliminate the travelling and the sitting around, it'd be great
because the actual time spent on stage is fabulous.
But sitting around and the travelling and bits and pieces_
You've got to get used to it.
You're two months gone.
Far further gone [B] than that.
You don't worry about that.
At our age it's dangerous to be two months gone.
[Eb] We started off in Barcelona two months or so [G] ago.
And hip switch tonight.
Barcelona to hip switch.
[N] Well, hey, what can I say?
Now, listen, we're going to unplug you here this morning.
It's not what they say in the music room.
You're going to sing a wee song for us called Gerd und Ulla?
Well, if you like.
Is that it?
What does that mean?
We were out in Germany _ many, many years ago.
We were in Germany and we saw a sign which said umlautung,
which in Deutsch means diversion.
We'd written a song and we thought, well, that sounds good.
We'll call it Diversion.
Then we met this couple, extremely nice couple.
Her name was Ulla and his name was Gerd. _
And we'd written this other song
and we decided just to call it Gerd und Ulla.
Put it in [B] one word and [F] it goes Gerd und Ulla.
It's sort of [Eb] a gypsified type thing.
So the title lends itself to that.
I like that title.
Do you like that?
Especially the condition I'm in.
You said that last time we were on here you liked his title.
I [Gb] like him.
[Ab] I can never get round him.
I always get that phone and he just blanks me.
I prefer [G] her.
I can see why.
OK, _ what about [Ab] a touch of Gerd und Ulla?
Oh, God.
Hold on, this is early.
We don't know how much of this we're going to do
because the [Gm] track's about ten minutes long.
I'll sing a little for you guys.
_ [G] _ _ _ You're not well, you know.
_ Do you want to sing?
No, I don't want to sing it.
Go there.
_ Love is a thing that I just can't find
[Gm] _ _ [G] _
It's not in tune, is it?
_ _ Love is a thing that I just can't find
_ [Gm] _ [Eb] It seems that I'm the one [D] love, the one love [G] that's been hurt
I said I'd never do this.
Sing it.
_ She doesn't come my [F] way
The [Gm] best bits are to [G] come.
It gets better.
_ _ She doesn't come my way
[Gm] _ _
[Eb] It's love that [D] I want more
So [G] what more can I say
It's a talent.
Yeah.
_ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ [F] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Gm] _ Yeah, _ [G]
that's_
Now, they'll watch this, won't they, see if we mess up.
We're messing up?
Nah.
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
Keep awake.
And [N] it goes like that, and it goes on like that.
It's the smallest country waking up like that.
It does have that sort of flavour about it, though.
It's got a gypsy-five type thing about it, yeah.
The Gertons are incredibly early to do something like that.
They pay tribute to them, do they?
Did they ever knew Gertula?
No, they got divorced in the end.
Very soon after we saw them.
They were darlings of this town that we used to hang out in a lot.
Well, one was a darling, wasn't she?
Oh, yeah, she was.
I quite like Gert myself, but never came to make_
You like Eamon as well.
I'm having a big day. _ _ _
You always make it look_
I mean, you're always a pleasure to talk to and interview,
down through the years, goodness me,
but because you make it fun, you really do go out there.
I suppose if you weren't enjoying it, you wouldn't be doing it.
No, we have fun, and we try to make it look like we're having fun,
because that appears better.
But we do actually enjoy doing the set.
_ Well, now that we've got your Ida Bairds,
it would be a good idea to make use of you,
because we're going to talk about the Beatles later, aren't we?
Yeah, we've got the Rolling Stones, Tour Date.
And they've been going longer than [G] you, apparently.
Yeah, apparently.
_ You can correct us on that later,
but we're going to be talking about their new dates for the UK.
So will you stay with us, Laz, and we'll talk about that?
Certainly.
In about 20 minutes' time.
And we're also going to talk about holidays,
which I know is not very good, is it, for you?
Oh, we're going soon.
[Eb] When do you get a holiday?
Straight after Christmas.
Oh, do you?
Yeah.
I'm looking forward to that.
Where are you going?
I don't know yet.
Where are you going?
I don't know.
Maybe we can sort this one out, eh?
If [D] you like to go on a holiday, I don't know if the lads have enjoyed this one,
because it's very much a family holiday,
and we're going to be talking about that in our Passport to Paradise competition.
And actually, it's a wonderful place.
It's in Copenhagen.
Remember wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen?
Anyway, take a look at this.
[G] _ _ _ [Cm] [N] Gary Holmes, no relation to Eamon.
He's 10, and he says,
I'm a great fan of Status Quo.
Please say hello to him today.
There you go.
Hello, Gary.
Hello, Gary.
They don't believe us.
Yeah, and then another guy here, who's Richard Crane, who's 12.
Another fan.
So much for the Stones there, but 30 years on, we've also got [Abm] the Beatles.
Yeah, so we've got, [G] basically, it's Status Quo and the Rolling Stones,
still going strong,
but it's almost 25 years since their great rival, the Beatles, split up.
To all Beatles fans, this may come as a bit of a surprise.
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_ _ _ _ [E] Track from the new [Em] album from the Beatles, which goes on sale [N] tomorrow.
It's called The Beatles Live at the BBC.
This is it, and it features over 56 songs,
which may have never been heard before.
It's quite amazing to think that there's so much material there
that's never been put out.
It's fascinating just to hear that.
I mean, because we all, over the years,
[G] have thought that we've heard everything by the Beatles.
I thought I had, anyway.
And to hear that, I mean, it's kind of weird.
It's always early radio [Gb] sessions that they used to do.
They don't seem to do any more.
You said earlier, they used to take bands in that didn't have contracts and stuff,
and everybody would go in and do a session.
I remember we listened to it, the first one we did, I think,
was with Brian Matthews at these early Saturday morning BBC things.
Not as early as this, but it was early.
No, not shilly early, just early.
[Ab] So there could be undiscovered status quo [N] stuff knocking about somewhere.
I hope not.
But there is.
Well, if there is, somebody will bring it out.
But [Ab] I think_
You hear all these cover versions, like Johnny B.
Goode, the Hippy Hippy [Ab] Shake.
I mean, there's lots of stuff.
It's all Cavern, they must have been doing all that stuff at the Caverns,
all the early days.
I don't think there's any doubt that this will be massive,
and whatever the single is going to be.
_ I'd stick my neck out.
I reckon it'll go number one [Ebm] everywhere in the world.
You're probably right.
Tom Records in [B] London tonight is the place to be,
because apparently at 2am this is when this goes on sale,
and the first half dozen or so people through the doors
[N] get very special Beatles mementos.
Francis and Rick will just finish in Ipswich,
head down the [E] motorway and be queuing [Abm] up there.
What a way out.
Lads, thanks very much.
Good luck [Gb] with the rest of the tour.
Thank you.
And thanks for coming and talking to us this morning.
Especially [Ab] Ipswich tonight.
Yeah.
It's going to be a good one.
Rocking Ipswich.
Brian, after the break, the Oz Experience,
as we get our latest holiday postcard from Amanda Reddington.
Down under this time. _ _ _ _