Never Too Late (Status Quo album)


Never Too Late is the fourteenth studio album by English rock band Status Quo, coproduced by the group and John Eden. Released on 13 March 1981, it had been recorded at the same sessions – at Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin – as its predecessor Just Supposin. It entered the UK chart at No.2.
Only one single was released from the album: a cover of 'Something 'Bout You Baby I Like', backed with 'Enough Is Enough'. This was promoted with a music video directed by Godley and Creme. Towards the end of 1981, a third single from Just Supposin was issued.
This was the last album to feature the 'frantic four' formation of the band as in late 1981 drummer John Coghlan departed the band, with Pete Kircher replacing him early the following year.
"With Never Too Late, we began to lose the plot," recalled singer Francis Rossi. " Bob Young was cleverly promoted backwards. I've since learned that he was told the band didn't want him anymore."

Reception

's retrospective review was mixed, criticizing the heavy dose of keyboards in the mix but praising most of the individual songs. They commented of the album and its twin, Just Supposin', that "Neither is what one would describe as a classic Quo disc, but nor are they as disposable as some of the band's later releases."

Track listing

Side one
  1. "Never Too Late" - 3:59
  2. "Something 'Bout You Baby I Like" - 2:51
  3. "Take Me Away" - 4:49
  4. "Falling in Falling Out" - 4:15
  5. "Carol" - 3:41
Side two
  1. "Long Ago" - 3:46
  2. "Mountain Lady" - 5:06
  3. "Don't Stop Me Now" - 3:43
  4. "Enough is Enough" - 2:54
  5. "Riverside" - 5:04
;2005 reissue bonus track
  1. "Rock 'N' Roll"
;2017 Deluxe Edition
Disc 1
  1. "Never Too Late"
  2. "Something 'Bout You Baby I Like"
  3. "Take Me Away"
  4. "Falling in Falling Out"
  5. "Carol"
  6. "Long Ago"
  7. "Mountain Lady"
  8. "Don't Stop Me Now"
  9. "Enough is Enough"
  10. "Riverside"
Disc 2
  1. Rock N' Roll
  2. Don't Stop Me Now
  3. What You're Proposing
  4. LP Overview
  5. Something 'Bout You Baby I Like
  6. Something 'Bout You Baby I Like
  7. Caroline
  8. Roll Over Lay Down
  9. Backwater
  10. Little Lady
  11. Don't Drive My Car
  12. Whatever You Want
  13. Hold You Back
  14. Something 'Bout You Baby I Like
  15. Rockin' All Over The World
  16. Over The Edge
Disc 3
  1. Rock N' Roll
  2. Dirty Water
  3. Forty-Five Hundred Times
  4. Big Fat Mama
  5. Don't Waste My Time
  6. Roadhouse Blues
  7. Rain
  8. Down Down
  9. Bye Bye Johnny

    Personnel

;Additional personnel