Official U.K. Albums Chart results from Sunday the 16th to Saturday the 22nd of February 1975
Cut-off for sales figures was up to the end of Saturday the 15th of February
Results counted from Sunday the 16th,
and published on Wednesday the 19th of February 1975.
Status Quo
Piledriver
At No.48, on “The Top 50 UK Albums Chart”, the week of my 3rd Birthday, is Status Quo with Piledriver.
For one last time,..
…well for now at least, we have the Quo’s big breakthrough album back in the UK chart for the third time in as many years; and, true to form, it seems that it’s getting some new attention due to a lot of more recent success running parallel in the charts somewhere or other.
Last year it had been the release of their next album after this one, an LP which I’d met up with further along last year’s run, which had kept this bad boy resurfacing. This year it seems to have been assisted by the fact that the boys had recently celebrated having their very first No.1 single “Down Down” back last month in January. A single which, if it had hung onto that chart for just one more week, would have featured in my recent singles retrospective during my 3rd birthday. I’m sure that same No.1 song itself will appear anyway around this time of year, but I will have to wait a while before it does. Until then, and before any further Quo appears, let’s just stand and salute this free and loose but rock-solid album one more time.
The album,..
…since I’d last left it, and as I mentioned at the end of last year’s showing, had lain in the shadows for the rest of the year. Now though, with that first number one single stoking the coals under it, it has recently risen back into this chart once more.
It first appeared back last month on the 12th of January and stayed for one week at No.38. It then returned for two weeks from the 26th of that month, sticking at No.44 for both of those, and carried itself into this month of February, where it fell out again after the 8th. This week though, it is back once again, after taking a week off.
From here…
…the album will only last this one week and so will disappear again after the 22nd.
However, we have to now travel onwards through the mists of time, over 40 years in fact, to find its last re-entry so far; and again it rises due to a couple of reasons. The first is due to the album getting a new lease of life as a deluxe re-issue, which witnesses the album get expanded to feature a treasure of other early material from around the time of this LP’s original release back in 1972. The second was the celebration of seeing the Frantic Four back together again and going on tour for the first time in 32 years!
It all helps push this album back into the now fully expanded Top 100 on the final day of March 2014, where it sits at the No.90 position for one week only, disappearing once more after the 5th of April.
The appearances themselves from around this time may have been sporadic, but they all add up, and so far, with everything now tallied up to this time of writing in June 2026, this album now officially holds 38 weeks of chart action to its name alone; and from the very first showing, to the very last so far, it has proven itself, especially with that type of longevity, to never be that far away.
Side 1
Side 2
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