The story of Status Quo is essentially the story of two people: Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt. It is the story of two outwardly very different characters—Rossi, the moody insecure one, and Parfitt, the smiling, permanently at ease golden boy—who forged an unlikely yet enduring bond that would see them through the dizzying highs and terrifying lows of a forty-year career. The story of Status Quo is essentially the story of two people: Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt. It is the story of two outwardly very different characters—Rossi, the moody insecure one, and Parfitt, the smiling, permanently at ease golden boy—who forged an unlikely yet enduring bond that would see them through the dizzying highs and terrifying lows of a forty-year career. Now they are prepared to tell it all—the groupies, the drug-taking, the marriage breakdowns, and Parfitts brush with death when he was forced to undergo bypass surgery.