Forty Five Hundred Times

as an album generally),[6] as did Parfitt, who enjoyed the improvised jam at the end of the track and declared it his favourite guitar moment with the band.

[7] Of the title, Rossi remarked: "Rick and I were in a Yankee phase at the time… In 'real' English it would've been called 'Four Thousand, Five Hundred Times' – which doesn't quite work, does it?

[9] When that album was reissued on a Japanese compact disc in 1987, as a double set with the earlier Piledriver, "Forty Five Hundred Times" had to be dropped owing to space reasons.

[4] For concert performances, Parfitt used a custom Gibson SG tuned specifically for the song, leaving the bottom B string slightly flat.

[5][13] It was subsequently played frequently, always elongated with a jam in E minor that originates from the song Gotta Go Home from Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon.

[14] A 20-minute version was performed at the NEC Arena in 1982 at a charity concert for The Prince's Trust, with Coghlan's replacement Pete Kircher reinterpreting the original drum parts.

[15][16] The song disappeared from the set after the End of the Road tour in 1984, but it was reintroduced in 1990 (with the new rhythm section of John "Rhino" Edwards and Jeff Rich).

It was performed the same way at the "Frantic Four" concerts in 2013 featuring original Quo members Rossi, Parfitt, Alan Lancaster and John Coghlan.