Rossi was born on 29 May 1949 in Forest Hill, London. His father's side of the family were Italian ice cream merchants and had an ice cream business in South London, and his mother was a Northern Irish Roman Catholic 查看更多內容

Rossi's guitar of choice is the Fender Telecaster, and he has used several over the years including his trademark green 1957 model with … 查看更多內容

Name
Early Status Quo albums, up to 1971's Dog of Two Head, credited him as Mike Rossi. Interviewed in 1996, he explained that his own name was deemed "too poncey" by the band's original manager, "so I had to change it to … 查看更多內容

• The Official Francis Rossi website
• Status Quo official website
• Interview with Francis Rossi on Rocktopia 查看更多內容

Early career
In 1962, while attending Sedgehill Comprehensive School, Rossi became close friends with future Status Quo bassist Alan Lancaster while … 查看更多內容

Rossi, along with the rest of Status Quo, has often been described as "uncool", including by Rossi himself; in March 2013, he called the Status Quo of c. 1974 "the most uncool … 查看更多內容

• King of the Doghouse (1996)
• One Step at a Time (2010)
• We Talk Too Much (2019) 查看更多內容