Image copyright Status Quo Since the entry of the band Status Quo in 1967, he separated from the group. Until today.
Beset by a severe infection, the guitarist of one of the british bands of rock’s most successful, Rick Parfitt, has died at age 68 at a hospital in Spain.
The information gave it to his manager, who said that this Thursday, the guitarist had been admitted to the hospital after developing complications in an injury that I had in the shoulder.
“With your blond hair and jeans, Rick Parfitt was one of the guitarists most recognized rock” wrote Nick Serpell, editor of obituaries for the BBC.
That association with Francis Rossi became the core of Status Quo, one of the bands most enduring of Britain.
Their brand of rock to the style boogie-woogie survived the changes of fashion music and became one of the best acts of his generation.
in Addition to running the sound Quo on the stage, Parfitt wrote many of the biggest hits of the band.
US$ 6 a week
Richard John Parfitt was born in Woking, Surrey on October 12, 1948.
he Began playing a guitar when I was 11 years old and at the end of college, at the age of 15 he got a job at Sunshine Holiday Camp in Hayling Island, Hampshire, earning$ 6 a week.
a Large portion of their new income went to the hands of your father, who had problems of alcohol and gaming.
“Always was getting in trouble and came to me crying,” he recalled later Parfitt. “Probably ended up giving a couple of thousands of pounds, which then was a lot of money”.
Parfitt met Francis Rossi in 1965 when they were both playing with their respective bands in a camp of holiday.
Disappointed
Two years later Parfitt, along with Rossi, Alan Lancaster, John Coghlan and Roy Lynes joined together to form the Status Quo.
the first success of the band, Matchstick Men, released in 1968, covered the movement, psychedelic era and held the number seven in the british charts.
But the band it was disappointing with the direction they were taking.
they Left their clothes flowery, and settled to a more traditional style of rock.
Parfitt co-wrote two of the songs on the album Piledriver, released in 1972.
In an interview in 2014, Parfitt said of the album: “I love every song of that album, I think All The Reasons is one of the most beautiful that I wrote about my wife at that time.”
Live Aid
The album became the base for the following releases, with Parfitt receiving several compliments for the lyrics of the songs.
Whatever You Want co-written by Parfitt and Andy Bown, became one of the biggest hits of the band and a fixed in his increasingly popular concerts.
In the 80′s, with the changes in the music scene, Status Quo made a tour of farewell.
But en 1985 decided to go on after Bob Geldof convinced them to open the concert Live Aid.
“God, I’m so glad I did now, Quo opening Live Aid was meant to be,” said Parfitt in his time.
“selfish Child”
Status Quo was not exempt from the hedonistic life that is often associated with Rock bands.
Parfitt admitted to having spent US$ 1,200 a week on cocaine and other US$ 600 in vodka.
Their addictions, along with the tragic drowning of her two year old daughter, Heidi, led to the breakup of his first marriage to Marietta Broker.
“drugs are not the hardest thing,” he said later. “Is divorce that leads the drug.”
later, he married Patty Beedon, who had been his love from childhood. The couple divorced and met, prior to finally go their separate ways.
Patty was a painful separation, who later would describe as “a selfish child who never grew up”.
After paying millions in divorce settlements Parfitt vowed that never would she marry.
But in 2006, broke his promise to marry with the instructor of fitness Lyndsay Whitburn.
relaxation
From the years 1990 Parfitt suffered a series of health problems, which in 1997 led him to undergo heart surgery by-pass quad.
this operation is fully recovered and in a matter of months they were performing with the band.
But the doctors warned him that he would have to leave the life he had.
A recommendation that seems to have stuck to 2014, when he was living a relaxed life in Spain.
“I have Not smoked marijuana for 27 years and have not used cocaine for 10 years, I just do normal things, children keep me busy and I’m shopping with the lady,” he said.
Other members of the band came and went over the years, but Parfitt remained with Rossi as the face final Status Quo.
over the decades, the two maintained a good friendship.
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