Can you remember the day Status Quo rocked South Shields?

Today it is Bents Park where the big names flock to for concerts in South Shields.
By The Newsroom
Published 7th Dec 2016, 10:22 BST
Updated 14th Dec 2016, 12:36 BST
Status Quo at Temple Park during their 1993 concert.Status Quo at Temple Park during their 1993 concert.
Status Quo at Temple Park during their 1993 concert.

A generation ago, however, it was the town’s Temple Park leisure centre where they appeared.

Status Quo rocked South Shields three times in four years with winter concerts in 1990, 1991 and 1993.

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Gazette competiton winner Sharon Brown, meets her heroes, Status Quo, at Whitley Bay Ice Rink in 1986 before an earlier North East concert.Gazette competiton winner Sharon Brown, meets her heroes, Status Quo, at Whitley Bay Ice Rink in 1986 before an earlier North East concert.
Gazette competiton winner Sharon Brown, meets her heroes, Status Quo, at Whitley Bay Ice Rink in 1986 before an earlier North East concert.
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December 7 marks 26 years since the first of those performances.

What are your memories of that night? We would love to know and thought we would inspire you to comment by reproducing the band’s setlist below.

Down Down

Roll Over Lay Down

Gazette competiton winner Sharon Brown, meets her heroes, Status Quo, at Whitley Bay Ice Rink in 1986 before an earlier North East concert.Gazette competiton winner Sharon Brown, meets her heroes, Status Quo, at Whitley Bay Ice Rink in 1986 before an earlier North East concert.
Gazette competiton winner Sharon Brown, meets her heroes, Status Quo, at Whitley Bay Ice Rink in 1986 before an earlier North East concert.

Little Lady

Mystery Song/Railroad/Most of the Time/Wild Side of Life/Rollin’ Home/Again and Again/Slow Train

Hold You Back

Don’t Drive My Car

Dirty Water

Whatever You Want

Forty-Five Hundred Times

In the Army Now

Rockin’ All Over the World

Don’t Waste My Time

Roadhouse Blues/The Wanderer/Marguerita Time/Living on an Island/A Mess of Blues/Break the Rules/Something ‘Bout You Baby I Like/The Price of Love/Roadhouse Blues

Burning Bridges (On and Off and on Again)

Let Us Dance/No Particular Place to Go/I Hear You Knocking/Lucille/Great Balls of Fire

Rock and Roll Music/Bye Bye Johnny

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