Down Down

"Down Down"
Artwork for Dutch vinyl release
Single by Status Quo
from the album On the Level
B-side"Nightride"
Released29 November 1974 (1974-11-29)
Genre
Length3:49 (single version)
5:24 (album version)
LabelVertigo
Songwriter(s)Francis Rossi
Bob Young
Producer(s)Status Quo
Status Quo singles chronology
"Break the Rules"
(1974)
"Down Down"
(1974)
"Roll Over Lay Down"
(1975)
Video
"Down Down" on TopPop on YouTube

"Down Down" is a song by English rock band Status Quo, released by Vertigo Records on 29 November 1974.[3] Written by Francis Rossi and Bob Young and produced by Status Quo, "Down Down" was Status Quo's only number one single on the UK Singles Chart. The single spent a week at the top of the chart in January 1975.[4] Both "Down Down" and its B-side "Nightride" were taken from the album On the Level (1975), which had yet to be released. The album version lasts 5 minutes and 24 seconds, whilst the single version is 3 minutes and 49 seconds.

  1. ^ "Status Quo's 10 greatest songs, ranked". Goldradiouk.com.
  2. ^ a b Stanley, Bob (13 September 2013). "Some Kind of Monster: Metal". Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop. Faber & Faber. p. 568. ISBN 978-0-571-28198-5.
  3. ^ "News". Melody Maker. 16 November 1974. p. 51.
  4. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 309. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.