Artist: STATUS QUO
Album: IF YOU CAN’T STAND THE HEAT REMASTERED (CD)

Release date: 1978/ 2005
Media type: CD

If You Can't Stand the Heat is an album by English Rock band Status Quo. Recorded at Wisselord Studios, Hilversum, Holland, and produced by Pip Williams, it was released in October 1978 and reached #3 in the UK album chart. The sleeve notes that Aphex Aural Exciter was used in the recording process, thus contributing to a more atmospheric sound than its predecessor, "Rockin' All Over The World". Unusually for a Status Quo record, a brass section, The David Katz Horns, was used, as well as a backing vocal trio, Jacquie O'Sullivan, later a member of Bananarama, Stevie Lange and Joy Yates.

Parfitt and Bown's "Again and Again" was released as a single in August 1978, with Lancaster's "Too Far Gone" from the previous album as the b-side, and reached #15.

"Accident Prone" was released as a single in November, and reached #36 (perhaps a prophetic title). Its b-side was "Let me Fly" by Rossi and Frost.

TRACKLIST:

"Again and Again" (Parfitt/Bown/Lynton) - 3:41
"I'm Giving Up My Worryin'" (Rossi/Frost) - 3:02
"Gonna Teach You to Love Me" (Lancaster/Green) - 3:11
"Someone Show Me Home" (Rossi/Frost) - 3:49
"Long Legged Linda" (Bown) - 3:29
"Oh, What a Night" (Parfitt/Bown) - 3:46
"Accident Prone" (Williams/Hutchins) - 5:08
"Stones" (Lancaster) - 3:53
"Let Me Fly" (Rossi/Frost) - 4:25
"Like a Good Girl" (Rossi/Young) - 3:26

LINE-UP:

Francis Rossi - guitar, vocals
Rick Parfitt - guitar, keyboards, vocals
Alan Lancaster - bass, guitar, vocals
John Coghlan - drums

Additional musicians:
Andy Bown - keyboards
Jacquie O'Sullivan - backing vocals
Stevie Lange - backing vocals
Joy Yates - backing vocals