His final performance as a full-time member of Status Quo was at Wembley Stadium on 13 July 1985 for the opening of Live Aid.

[1] With classmates Alan Key (drums) and Jess Jaworski (keyboards), the pair formed a band called The Paladins, who played their first gig at the Samuel Jones Sports Club in Dulwich.

Key was replaced by Air Cadets drummer[1] and future Quo member John Coghlan, and the band was renamed The Spectres.

There they met future Quo guitarist Rick Parfitt, who was playing as part of a cabaret act called "The Highlights".

In 1966, The Spectres signed a five-year deal with Piccadilly Records, releasing three singles that failed to chart.

[9] Quo's hit singles from the band in the 1970s/1980s, with peak UK chart position and year, include: "Paper Plane" (No.

In 1987 Lancaster joined a new line-up of the Australian band The Party Boys and co-produced their self-titled album, achieving platinum sales.

The Bombers supported Cheap Trick (1988), Alice Cooper (1990) and Skid Row (1990) on their tours of Australia.

As well as writing the theme song for the film Indecent Obsession, he also produced an album for classical pianist Roger Woodward, which achieved platinum sales in Australia.

[12] This was later denied by current bassist, Rhino, who explained in an interview that Lancaster was in poor health and unable to participate in any such reunion.

[13] However his health improved and it was announced that the classic "Frantic Four" line-up of Francis Rossi, Rick Parfitt, Alan Lancaster and John Coghlan would perform a series of concerts together in March 2013.

[15] In November 2019, Lancaster was interviewed extensively about his time in his post Quo outfits The Party Boys and The Bombers on the Australian Rock Show podcast.

Rossi and Lancaster became close friends and, along with other schoolmates formed the band "The Scorpions" – an early Quo forerunner.