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100 GREATEST COVER VERSIONS

Way back in 1970, during a long night of drinking at a club in the German city of Bielefeld, the two guitarists in British rock band Status Quo heard a song that would change their lives.

Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt had already begun to reshape Quo’s sound, moving away from the psychedelic pop of their hit single PicturesOfMatchstickMento embrace a harder rock direction on their third album MaKelly’s Greasy Spoon. But when they heard The Doors’ song RoadhouseBlues blasting at high volume in that club, it was a genuine eureka moment.

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