Status Quo's Francis Rossi says Corrie stint came from 'mouthing off' at Bruce Jones
dailystar.co.ukCoronation Street, as Les Battersby actor Bruce Jones kept asking them for photographs at every gig.Speaking exclusively to Daily Star ahead of the release of Status Quo's new album, Quo-ing In: The Best Of The Noughties, Francis explained how the band wound up appearing in the soap because of Bruce."As with everything in your career, it's like wow, because I really didn't want to do it," said Francis.READ NEXT: Rock icon Carl Palmer says 'anything could have gone wrong' as he remembers landmark gig"I don't want to do anything.
I'm terrible. I am!" he joked."He [Bruce Jones] came to see us regularly in Manchester and he'd say 'can I have a photograph?' "He sat on the drum riser with me and Rick, and I said, 'how many times do you want a photograph?' I said, 'why can't you cut us in your gig?' and I was just mouthing off. "Then low and behold, up comes this b****y offer.
I said, 'I shouldn't have said that."However, Francis recalled that appearing in the soap was a great experience and that he has huge admiration for the cast, with Quo arriving on the street to play at Les Battersby's wedding, after their tour bus broke down in the soap."It wasn't until I got there, and watched them in the morning.
Everyone is there at the same time. Everyone is reading their scripts. Rick and I were taken around the street, and we were watching these two people act. "Then suddenly, they do a couple of run throughs and we were watching television."He added: "That's what I found when I first did Corrie, that blimey these people know what to do.""Some of the smash up scenes they did, with me and Battersby's wife.
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