What You're Proposing

"What You're Proposing"
Single by Status Quo
from the album Just Supposin'
Released	3 October 1980 (1980-10-03)
Genre	Rock [1]
Length	4:13
Label	Vertigo
Songwriter(s)	Francis Rossi, Bernie Frost
Producer(s)	Status Quo and John Eden
Status Quo singles chronology
"Living on an Island" (1979) "What You're Proposing" (1980) "Lies" (1980)

"What You're Proposing" is a single released by the British rock band Status Quo in 1980. It was included on their album Just Supposin' . ^[2]

The B-side is "A B Blues", a non-album instrumental studio jam. Some later pressings of this single mis-credited Andy Bown as Andy Brown on the B-side composer's credit. The initial pressing run of 75,000 copies of this single were issued with a colour picture sleeve.^{[ citation needed ]}

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. ^{[3] [4]}

Track listing

1. "What You're Proposing" (Rossi/Frost) (4.13)
2. "A B Blues" (Rossi/Parfitt/Lancaster/Coghlan/Bown) (4.33)

Charts

Chart (1980)	Peak position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [5]	62
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40) [6]	4
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders) [7]	7
France (IFOP) [8]	34
Germany (GfK) [9]	7
Ireland (IRMA) [10]	2
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)	7
Netherlands (Single Top 100) [11]	4
Spain (AFYVE) [12]	3
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) [13]	2
UK Singles (OCC) [14]	2
Zimbabwe (ZIMA) [15]	14

References

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3. "Status Quo Concert Setlist at Roundhouse, London on October 22, 2014". Setlist.fm. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
4. "Status Quo - Acoustic : Radio 2 In Concert". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
5. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.
6. "Status Quo – What You're Proposing" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40.
7. "Status Quo – What You're Proposing" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50.
8. "InfoDisc : Les Tubes de chaque artiste commençant par S". Infodisc.fr. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
9. "Status Quo – What You're Proposing" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts.
10. "The Irish Charts – Search Results – What You're Proposing". Irish Singles Chart.
11. "Status Quo – What You're Proposing" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
12. "Listas de superventas: 1980". 29 October 2020.
13. "Status Quo – What You're Proposing". Swiss Singles Chart.
14. "Status Quo: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company.
15. "World singles charts and sales TOP 50 in 58 countries: STATUS QUO". World singles charts and sales TOP 50 in 58 countries. Retrieved 2020-10-29.