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 Parfitt's brush with death when he was forced to undergo bypass surgery.