Burning Bridges (Status Quo song)

"Burning Bridges (On and Off and On Again)"
Artwork for UK vinyl releases
Single by Status Quo
from the album Ain't Complaining
B-side"Whatever You Want"
"Marguerita Time" (12-inch only)
Released21 November 1988 (1988-11-21)
GenreRock[1]
Length3:51
LabelVertigo
Songwriter(s)Rossi / Bown
Producer(s)Pip Williams
Status Quo singles chronology
"Rocking All Over the World"
(1988)
"Burning Bridges (On and Off and On Again)"
(1988)
"Not at All"
(1989)

"Burning Bridges (On and Off and On Again)" is a single released by the British rock band Status Quo in 1988. It was included on the album Ain't Complaining.[2] The tune is based on the traditional English folk song "Darby Kelly".[3]

In 1994 Manchester United F.C. used the song as the basis for their FA Cup song "Come On You Reds", which reached number one in the UK Singles Chart in May 1994.

The song was reprised, in 2014, for the band's thirty-first studio album Aquostic (Stripped Bare). It was featured in the ninety-minute launch performance of the album at London's Roundhouse on 22 October, the concert being recorded and broadcast live by BBC Radio 2 as part of their In Concert series.[4][5]

  1. ^ "Status Quo's 10 greatest songs, ranked". Goldradiouk.com.
  2. ^ "Status Quo discography". Statusquo.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2010-02-12. Retrieved 2010-01-04.
  3. ^ "'Whatever you want: The Andrew Bown Story'". Exclusive Magazine. Archived from the original on 25 September 2011. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  4. ^ "Status Quo Concert Setlist at Roundhouse, London on October 22, 2014". Setlist.fm. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  5. ^ "Status Quo - Acoustic : Radio 2 In Concert". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 25 February 2015.