What You're Proposing

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"What You're Proposing"
Single by Status Quo
from the album Just Supposin'
Released3 October 1980 (1980-10-03)
Genre Rock [1]
Length4:13
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]

Contents

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 (Official German Charts) [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

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