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"What You're Proposing"
Single by Status Quo
from the album Just Supposin'
Released3 October 1980 (1980-10-03)
GenreRock[1]
Length4:13
LabelVertigo
SongwritersFrancis Rossi, Bernie Frost
ProducersStatus 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)[11]7
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[12]4
Spain (AFYVE)[13] 3
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[14]2
UK Singles (Official Charts)[15]2
Zimbabwe (ZIMA) [16] 14

References

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  1. "Status Quo's 10 greatest songs, ranked". Goldradiouk.com.
  2. "Status Quo discography". Statusquo.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2012-08-03. 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. "Offizielle Deutsche Charts" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. To see the peak chart position, click 'TITEL VON', followed by the artist's name.
  10. "The Irish Charts – Search Results – What You're Proposing". Irish Singles Chart.
  11. "Nederlandse Top 40 – Status Quo" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40.
  12. "Status Quo – What You're Proposing" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
  13. "Listas de superventas: 1980". 29 October 2020.
  14. "Status Quo – What You're Proposing". Swiss Singles Chart.
  15. "Search results for "Status Quo" | Official Chart". Official Charts Company.
  16. "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.