Marguerita Time

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"Marguerita Time"
Single by Status Quo
from the album Back to Back
Released2 December 1983 [1]
Genre Pop rock
Length3:27
Label Vertigo
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)
Official audio
"Marguerita Time" on YouTube

"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.

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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 , on one occasion 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.

Track listing

  1. "Marguerita Time" (Rossi/Frost) (3.27)
  2. "Resurrection" (Bown/Parfitt) (3.46)

Charts

Chart (1983–1984)Peak
position
Germany (GfK) [6] 52
Ireland (IRMA) [7] 7
Netherlands (Single Top 100) [8] 35
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) [9] 23
UK Singles (OCC) [10] 3

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [11] Silver250,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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