It's May 2025 — and what a month for Status Quo fans! Not only is the 8-disc expanded edition of Quo Live dropping, but The Way We Were – Volume One by Francis Rossi is also on the way!

This collection brings together demos recorded over the past 25 years; All written by the songwriting team of Francis Rossi and Bob Young— many of which became Quo album tracks, singles, or appeared on Francis’s 2010 solo album One Step at a Time. Even more exciting: several songs in this collection have never been released in any form before!

In this episode, I share my thoughts on the second teaser track, Money Don’t Matter — a song that originally appeared on Quo’s Heavy Traffic album in 2002 and later featured on the Driving to Glory compilation.I talk about how the demo compares to the final version, how it captures the essence of the song in a raw and relaxed way, and why it holds such strong personal memories for me. Plus, I touch on what Francis himself had to say about how the demo made him reconsider the finished track.

🎧 The Way We Were – Volume One is out 2nd May via earMUSIC.Links to Francis Rossi: The Way We Were Vol 1

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