Released 13 March 1981 Producer John Eden , Status Quo Artist Status Quo Genre Hard rock | Length 38:02 Never Too Late
(1981) 1+9+8+2
(1982) Release date 13 March 1981 Label Vertigo Records | |
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Recorded 1980 at Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin Status Quo albums Just Supposin', Back to Back, If You Can't Stand the Heat, Ain't Complaining, Spare Parts | ||
Status quo never too late never too late
Never Too Late is the fourteenth studio album by English rock band Status Quo. Released on 13 March 1981, it had been recorded at the same sessions, at Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin, as the previous album Just Supposin', and co-produced by the group with John Eden. It entered the UK album chart at No. 2.
Contents
- Status quo never too late never too late
- Reception
- Track listing
- 2005 reissue bonus track
- Personnel
- Songs
- References
There was only one single released from the album, a cover version of 'Something 'Bout You Baby I Like', previously recorded by Tom Jones, and Glen Campbell with Rita Coolidge, backed with 'Enough is Enough'. It was promoted with a music video directed by Godley and Creme.
Towards the end of 1981 a third single from 'Just Supposin'' was issued.
This was the last album to feature the 'frantic four' formation of the band as in late 1981 drummer John Coghlan departed the band, with Pete Kircher replacing him early the following year.
Reception
Allmusic's retrospective review was mixed, criticizing the heavy dose of keyboards in the mix but praising most of the individual songs. They commented of the album and its twin, Just Supposin', that "Neither is what one would describe as a classic Quo disc, but nor are they as disposable as some of the band's later releases."
Track listing
Side one
- "Never Too Late" (Francis Rossi, Bernie Frost) - 3:59
- "Something 'Bout You Baby I Like" (Richard Supa) - 2:51
- "Take Me Away" (Rick Parfitt, Andy Bown) - 4:49
- "Falling in Falling Out" (Parfitt, Bown, Bob Young) - 4:15
- "Carol" (Chuck Berry) - 3:41
Side two
- "Long Ago" (Rossi, Frost) - 3:46
- "Mountain Lady" (Alan Lancaster) - 5:06
- "Don't Stop Me Now" (Lancaster, Bown) - 3:43
- "Enough is Enough" (Rossi, Parfitt, Frost) - 2:54
- "Riverside" (Rossi, Frost) - 5:04
2005 reissue bonus track
- "Rock 'N' Roll" (single version) (Rossi, Frost)
Personnel
Songs
1Never Too Late4:00
2Something 'bout You Baby I Like2:52
3Take Me Away4:49