Francis Rossi is struggling with Zoom. On screen, the Status Quo frontman’s mouth is moving but no sound is coming out. Attempts to fix the problem are waved off. It goes on like this for 30 seconds. Then it dawns: he’s doing his Marcel Marceau impression. “I like to mess with people,” he says with a grin, dropping the comedy mime act. “I’ve got to keep myself entertained.”
That’s fair enough – he’s been entertaining Quo fans for 55 years now, even if he’s the last original member left standing.
Early 2000s Quo albums and have just been reissued. What was it like