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Famous in the Last Century
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Where it sits
24th of the 34 Status Quo records held here. It came 33 years into a run that began in 1967. 2000 is 30 years into Boogie rock, which this tree dates from 1970.
From Wikipedia
Famous in the Last Century is the twenty-fourth studio album by British rock band Status Quo, released in 2000. According to XS All Areas - band members Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt's dual 2004 autobiography - the idea to record a second covers album (following 1996's Don't Stop) came from the band's then-manager David Walker, who said they should celebrate the millennium with an album containing twenty of their favourite hits from the past century. "Another bloody covers album!" grumbled Rossi. "We went along with it, as usual, but inside I felt like a fraud...
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