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Post by Quoincidence on Jul 31, 2019 8:07:32 GMT
'Bernie is in a critical condition in intensive care with a serious illness.' - news from Damon Frost
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Post by mortified on Jul 31, 2019 8:23:32 GMT
That's not good Cheers for the update, mate
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Post by Quoincidence on Jul 31, 2019 8:26:28 GMT
That's not good Cheers for the update, mate no worries. As I said on the other forum, I hope Rossi reaches out to the family... as he and Bernie havent spoke for the past 20 years. Take care, QI
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Post by craydarr on Aug 1, 2019 6:51:33 GMT
That's not good Cheers for the update, mate no worries. As I said on the other forum, I hope Rossi reaches out to the family... as he and Bernie havent spoke for the past 20 years. Take care, QI Wasn’t that more to do with Bernie than Fran, I seem to remember Fran saying he had more or less disappeared of the scene after he had some financial problems?? Let’s hope he makes a full and speedy recovery 🙂
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Post by snakelady on Aug 1, 2019 7:42:02 GMT
no worries. As I said on the other forum, I hope Rossi reaches out to the family... as he and Bernie havent spoke for the past 20 years. Take care, QI Wasn’t that more to do with Bernie than Fran, I seem to remember Fran saying he had more or less disappeared of the scene after he had some financial problems?? Let’s hope he makes a full and speedy recovery 🙂 Yep. That was it, his nephew registered with the old forum to explain it wasn't Francis' fault and that Bernie always spoke of him highly. I hope by now though, that Francis has been passed on an address and phone number, hence is able to contact Bernie. Wishing Bernie all the best
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Post by Quoincidence on Aug 1, 2019 10:31:08 GMT
no worries. As I said on the other forum, I hope Rossi reaches out to the family... as he and Bernie havent spoke for the past 20 years. Take care, QI Wasn’t that more to do with Bernie than Fran, I seem to remember Fran saying he had more or less disappeared of the scene after he had some financial problems?? Let’s hope he makes a full and speedy recovery 🙂 Bernies always had poor money management skills. 2001 Interview with Rossi;- "Yes, that's right. He literally disappeared! My best friend for years and years and years... I helped him with his rent. He got in some sort of trouble, he had to pay this and pay for that. I went on tour in October and... he had to move...and... I haven't heard from him since. I don't even have his phone number. Again, as Rick says, things happen for a reason. I don't know why Bernie disappeared. I don't know where he is. I don't know what he's doing, I haven't the foggiest idea what he's doing... He never even phoned me and said "thank you for this" or "thank you for that", or "bollocks", or anything... so I just don't even know where he is. It's actually over a year now... just nothing! We didn't have a confrontation or anything. If I had gone through the thing of saying that "I'm going to write with Bob now" there was going to be friction. But there can't be any friction there because I don't even know where Bernie is! I remember him saying "I won't be able to write songs anymore", I mean... fine. I can't say "oh, please...", you know. If you don't want to write songs you don't want to write songs. Simple as that."
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2019 10:56:29 GMT
Sad to hear, wrote some brilliant songs over the years.
Let's hope he pulls through.
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Post by frozenhero on Aug 3, 2019 15:03:27 GMT
I echo everyone's best wishes! Hope he'll recover.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2019 6:54:22 GMT
Sadly Bernie has passed away. Update from FB:
All at FTMO are very saddened to hear the news that Bernie Frost passed away on Sunday evening following a battle with lymphoma cancer. Bernie first met Status Quo at a gig at the Greyhound in Croydon on New Year's Eve 1971. His co-composition with Alan Lancaster, "A Year", the first of many Quo collaborations, appeared on the "Piledriver" album a year later. A solo deal with Vertigo soon followed with Bernie's debut single, "Foreign Lady", being issued in 1973, albeit credited to "Boz" Frost. "It wasn't a nickname", he told FTMO in 2014, "Vertigo just wanted something different to Bernie. I had no say in it at all". With his actual name reinstated, 1974 follow-up single "The House" was produced by Francis Rossi and is now generally regarded as a hugely rare and essential part of Status Quo's discography. "That's me and Quo. It was me and Francis on guitar, Spud (John Coghlan) on drums. There's a photo of me and Rick (Parfitt) in IBC studios, playing together right next to each other in separate booths. Andy Pyle (ex-Kinks, Gary Moore) was on bass. A full album was recorded, yeah. It was basically Quo without Nuff (Lancaster), and with John Sinclair who used to be the keyboard player in Uriah Heep. It never came out, I think there was a bit of politics there". Bernie went on to co-write with Francis Rossi several of Status Quo's biggest hits of the 1980s including "What You're Proposing" (UK #2), "Lies" (UK #11), "Rock 'N' Roll" (UK #8) and "Marguerita Time" (UK #3), before accompanying Rossi and Parfitt to the recording of the Band Aid single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" where he can be seen in the "Making Of" video. During Quo's hiatus in 1985 Bernie and Francis collaborated as a duo on another unreleased album, "Flying Debris" ("We had another title for that. We were gonna call it "Far And Wide". Why? It was to do with our appendages!"), though two singles, "Modern Romance (I Want To Fall In Love Again)" and a re-recording of Status Quo's "Jealousy" were both released with the former troubling the lower reaches of the UK charts. Bernie continued to collaborate with Quo as Rossi's predominant songwriting partner all the way up to 1999's "Under The Influence" long player, and provided backing vocals on numerous recordings. Bernie Frost's songs have been recorded by artists as diverse as Graham Bonnet, Demis Roussos, Slade, Klaus Wunderlich and Dexys Midnight Runners. FTMO sends its condolences and best wishes to Bernie's family and friends.
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Post by snakelady on Aug 5, 2019 7:03:05 GMT
R.I.P. Bernie
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Post by mortified on Aug 5, 2019 7:12:30 GMT
Sad news
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Post by Isaac Ryan on Aug 5, 2019 9:00:12 GMT
Sad news
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Post by I Ain't Complaining on Aug 5, 2019 19:58:24 GMT
RIP Bernie. Thanks for the songs....What You're Proposing is one of my favourites, and the songs on Under the Influence were great.
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Post by craydarr on Aug 6, 2019 5:50:52 GMT
no worries. As I said on the other forum, I hope Rossi reaches out to the family... as he and Bernie havent spoke for the past 20 years. Take care, QI Wasn’t that more to do with Bernie than Fran, I seem to remember Fran saying he had more or less disappeared of the scene after he had some financial problems?? Let’s hope he makes a full and speedy recovery 🙂 Very Sad News. Rest In Peace Bernie Thankyou for the Music 🙂
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2019 18:43:25 GMT
Haven’t been around recently so only just heard....R.I.P. ☹️
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Post by snakelady on Aug 11, 2019 6:16:39 GMT
Inspired by the other thread about the old mb I cruised a bit through the archive and actually found a thread from 2012 with us talking about the Rossi/Frost writing partnership: linkBernie did contribute some great tunes to the Quo catalogue. He won't be forgotten. I actually find it a shame his passing hasn't been mentioned on the Quo homepage ..
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Post by mortified on Aug 11, 2019 6:31:48 GMT
Inspired by the other thread about the old mb I cruised a bit through the archive and actually found a thread from 2012 with us talking about the Rossi/Frost writing partnership: linkBernie did contribute some great tunes to the Quo catalogue. He won't be forgotten. I actually find it a shame his passing hasn't been mentioned on the Quo homepage .. That is a shame actually
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Post by frozenhero on Aug 14, 2019 18:10:40 GMT
Just seen it. I'm saddened, of course, and I think it's sad that his death is not mentioned anywhere... I mean, you still hear "his" songs on the radio!
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Post by craydarr on Nov 9, 2019 10:42:46 GMT
Was on a train journey from Manchester today and had time to kill, so I checked out The House single on YouTube. What a great track, i believe the album was never released. Is this the case ?
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Post by mortified on Nov 10, 2019 6:41:55 GMT
Was on a train journey from Manchester today and had time to kill, so I checked out The House single on YouTube. What a great track, i believe the album was never released. Is this the case ? No, it never was. Both The House and the B-side What Do You Want To Hear Today? are on the deluxe edition of the Back To Back album, although the songs are considerably older than 1983. I was lucky enough (very!) to get my hands on the 7" single not that long ago coz there aren't that many around. It's effectively 3 members of Quo (I think Rick, Francis and John) plus Bernie, which is why I always wanted it.
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Post by frozenhero on Dec 18, 2019 11:52:44 GMT
Why is it that nobody seems to know when he was born? I wanted to write a Wikipedia article about him, but without a birthdate...
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Post by sqcollector on Dec 18, 2019 14:50:14 GMT
Why is it that nobody seems to know when he was born? I wanted to write a Wikipedia article about him, but without a birthdate... His wife is on YouTube, apparently. Check the comments here. Perhaps you could try to contact her.
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Post by Quoincidence on Dec 18, 2019 18:52:37 GMT
Why is it that nobody seems to know when he was born? I wanted to write a Wikipedia article about him, but without a birthdate... His wife is on YouTube, apparently. Check the comments here. Perhaps you could try to contact her. She's also on facebook, but it won't be the best time to pester her. Damon (his son) put Bernies blue acoustic guitar up for sale not too long after his death as she no longer wanted it around. That stage of grieving were she doesn't want to be reminded of him. Shame really
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Post by sqcollector on Dec 18, 2019 19:23:23 GMT
She's also on facebook, but it won't be the best time to pester her. Damon (his son) put Bernies blue acoustic guitar up for sale not too long after his death as she no longer wanted it around. That stage of grieving were she doesn't want to be reminded of him. Shame really Ah, bummer... Sad to hear...
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Post by Dark on Dec 23, 2019 10:42:18 GMT
Watched an episode of Top of the Pops on BBC 4 the other night, Quo were on doing Burning Bridges, Andy wasn't there, and I think I am right in saying it was Bernie they had on the keyboards in his place.
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