Never Too Late | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 13 March 1981 | |||
Recorded | 1980 | |||
Studio | Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 38:02 | |||
Label | Vertigo | |||
Producer | John Eden & Status Quo | |||
Status Quo chronology | ||||
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Singles from Never Too Late | ||||
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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,[1] it had been recorded at the same sessions – at Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin – as its predecessor Just Supposin'. It reached number 2 in the UK Albums Chart.
Only one single was released from the album: a cover of 'Something 'Bout You Baby I Like' (previously recorded by Tom Jones, and Glen Campbell with Rita Coolidge), 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. "[Songwriter] Bob Young was cleverly promoted backwards. I've since learned that he was told the band didn't want him anymore."[2]
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Sounds | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
AllMusic'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."[3]
Side one
Side two
Disc 1
Disc 2
(Never Too Late Sampler - Austrian Flexi-Disc)
(Live at St Austell Coliseum, Cornwall on 7 March 1981)
Disc 3 (Live at St Austell Coliseum, Cornwall on 7 March 1981)
Chart (1981) | Peak position |
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Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)[5] | 33 |
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[6] | 9 |
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[7] | 15 |
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[8] | 12 |
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[9] | 12 |
Spanish Albums (AFYVE)[10] | 12 |
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[11] | 14 |
UK Albums (OCC)[12] | 2 |
Chart (2017) | Peak position |
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UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC)[13] | 25 |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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France (SNEP)[14] | Gold | 100,000* |
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[15] | Platinum | 100,000^ |
United Kingdom (BPI)[16] | Gold | 100,000^ |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. |