Marguerita Time

"Marguerita Time"
Single by Status Quo
from the album Back to Back
Released2 December 1983[1]
Length3:27
LabelVertigo
Songwriter(s)Rossi/Frost
Producer(s)Status Quo
Status Quo singles chronology
"A Mess of Blues"
(1983) 		"Marguerita Time"
(1983) 		"Going Down Town Tonight"
(1984)

"Marguerita Time" is a 1983 song by the British rock band Status Quo. It was the third track to be released as a single from their 1983 album Back to Back.[2] The single was also issued as a limited edition picture disc, and in a Christmas double pack that included "Caroline"/"Joanne". The single became one of the band's biggest hits, peaking at no. 3 on the UK Singles Chart and was later certified Silver by the BPI for sales in excess of 250,000 copies.

Bassist Alan Lancaster recalled "Nobody but Francis [Rossi] wanted to record it. All it did was advertise that we were a bunch of nerds".[3] Lancaster refused to appear in the band's video for the song. When the band mimed the song on BBC's Top of the Pops Lancaster's place was taken by Slade's Jim Lea.

The song was reprised, in 2014, for the band's 31st studio album Aquostic (Stripped Bare). It was featured in the ninety-minute launch performance for the album at London's Roundhouse on 22 October, broadcast live by BBC Radio 2 as part of their In Concert series.[4][5]

Dexys Midnight Runners covered the song on the B-side of their single "This Is What She's Like". This recording was included on some reissues of that band's Too-Rye-Ay album.

  1. ^ "Music Week" (PDF). p. 32.
  2. ^ "Status Quo discography". statusquo.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2010-02-25. Retrieved 2010-01-04.
  3. ^ Ling, Dave (January 2002). "Again again again…". Classic Rock #36. p. 73.
  4. ^ "Status Quo Concert Setlist at Roundhouse, London on October 22, 2014 - setlist.fm". setlist.fm. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  5. ^ "Status Quo - Acoustic". Radio 2 In Concert. bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 25 February 2015.