Francis Rossi penned Down Down to address lingering criticisms of Status Quo in the music press. Not only did it become their first UK No.1 single, in 2012 it got a second lease of life courtesy of, well, an Australian supermarket...

We’d already had quite a bit of success when Down Down came out. I remember trying to write the basic chord sequence in a hotel room on Sunset and La Brea. Bob [Young, the group’s unofficial fifth member] and ...