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  Bournemouth Echo UK

  Who's the most famous person you've spotted in Dorset? What YOU said

  WHO’S the most famous person you’ve ever spotted in Dorset?

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  BANG Showbiz

  Status Quo baffled by song's popularity

  Status Quo are baffled by the enduring popularity of their version of ‘Rockin’ All Over The World’.

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  PA Media: Entertainment

  Former Status Quo drummer John Coghlan to ‘hang up his drumsticks’

  He delivered the powerful backbeat on hits such as Rockin’ All Over the World.

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  The Independent

  Alan Lancaster: Status Quo bassist who helped change rock’n’roll

  The musician gave the band their distinctive driving rhythm and penned several of their smash hits

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  The Telegraph

  Alan Lancaster, bass guitarist who underpinned Status Quo’s hard-driving brand of rock’n’roll – obituary

  Alan Lancaster, who has died aged 72, was the original bass guitarist with Status Quo, rock demigods in double denim who exported their singular brand of driving, three-chord, no-frills boogie around the world in the 1970s and 1980s; he played on 19 albums and 40 singles before leaving in 1985 and continuing his career in Australia, where he joined the platinum-selling Party Boys.

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  The Guardian

  Alan Lancaster obituary

  Alan Lancaster obituary. Founding member and bassist with Status Quo hailed for his key role in the band’s early success

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  The Independent

  Alan Lancaster death: Status Quo founding bassist dies aged 72

  Bassist took part in several reunion tours in 2013 and 2014, despite his illness

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  Status Quo bassist Alan Lancaster dies aged 72

  Francis Rossi, the band’s singer, said Lancaster was an ‘integral’ part of the group’s sound.

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  Yahoo Celebrity UK

  Queen drummer Roger Taylor: 'I think about death more with age - but I'm still having a good time’

  Queen star says turning 70 has made him consider death and late pals such as David Bowie and George Michael

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  Francis Rossi: Rick Parfitt became a caricature of himself

  The Status Quo frontman said trying to live up to the rock and roll archetype had broken Parfitt.

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