Francis Rossi
Francis Dominic Nicholas Michael Rossi, OBE (born 29 May 1949) is an English singer, songwriter and musician. He is best known as the co-founder, lead singer and lead guitarist of the rock band Status Quo.
Early life
Rossi was born on 29 May 1949 in Forest Hill, London. His father's side of the family were Italian ice cream merchants of the Rossi Ice Cream fame, and his mother was a Northern Irish Roman Catholic from Liverpool. Rossi grew up in a household with his parents, grandmother, and "lots of aunts and uncles", and was given a Roman Catholic upbringing, having been named after Saint Francis of Assisi. He attended Our Lady and St Philip Neri Roman Catholic Primary School in Sydenham, and Sedgehill Comprehensive School for high school, from which he was expelled on his last day. It was at Sedgehill where Rossi met Alan Lancaster, with whom he formed the band "The Scorpions" - a predecessor to Status Quo. Rossi's desire to become a musician began after seeing The Everly Brothers live on television at a young age, after which he asked his parents to buy him a guitar for Christmas.
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One Step at a Time
by: Francis RossiShe saw me in a red top magazine
And my number she found cleverly
I thought "She's alright"
She's so crazy ain't no topping her
I found out there ain't no stopping her
Baby say goodnight
She kept saying "You're incredible"
Baby baby
My friends found her unacceptable
I found out
That she don't like rules
but she don't mind making 'em
She don't like me and whatever I do
She spent my money
and its all Fifth Avenue and shoes and blues
and "Who's been sleeping on the job"
I got tired when she got physical
a fat lip now I'm in medical
maybe black is white
All went wrong that ain't no miracle
You can't get nowhere I'm cynical
time to say goodnight
She's now saying "You're unbearable"
Baby baby
My friends say she's unacceptable
I found out
That she don't like rules
but she don't mind making 'em
She don't like me and whatever I do
She spent my money
and its all Fifth Avenue and shoes and blues
and "Who's been sleeping on the job"