What You're Proposing

"What You're Proposing"
Single by Status Quo
from the album Just Supposin'
Released3 October 1980 (1980-10-03)
GenreRock[1]
Length4:13
LabelVertigo
Songwriter(s)Francis Rossi, Bernie Frost
Producer(s)Status Quo and John Eden
Status Quo singles chronology
"Living on an Island"
(1979)
"What You're Proposing"
(1980)
"Lies"
(1980)

"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.[citation needed]

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

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  1. "What You're Proposing" (Rossi/Frost) (4.13)
  2. "A B Blues" (Rossi/Parfitt/Lancaster/Coghlan/Bown) (4.33)

Charts

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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

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  1. ^ "Status Quo's 10 greatest songs, ranked". Goldradiouk.com.
  2. ^ "Status Quo discography". Statusquo.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-01-04.
  3. ^ "Status Quo Concert Setlist at Roundhouse, London on October 22, 2014". Setlist.fm. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  4. ^ "Status Quo - Acoustic : Radio 2 In Concert". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  5. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  6. ^ "Status Quo – What You're Proposing" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40.
  7. ^ "Status Quo – What You're Proposing" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50.
  8. ^ "InfoDisc : Les Tubes de chaque artiste commençant par S". Infodisc.fr. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
  9. ^ "Status Quo – What You're Proposing" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts.
  10. ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – What You're Proposing". Irish Singles Chart.
  11. ^ "Status Quo – What You're Proposing" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
  12. ^ "Listas de superventas: 1980". 29 October 2020.
  13. ^ "Status Quo – What You're Proposing". Swiss Singles Chart.
  14. ^ "Status Quo: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company.
  15. ^ "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.