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Rick Parfitt (born Richard Harrison on 12 October , 1948 in Woking , Surrey ) is best known for being a singer and the Rhythm Guitarist in the British rock band Status Quo . Rick first met bandmember Francis Rossi in 1965 in Butlin's Minehead whilst he was playing as Ricky Harrison in a musical trio called 'The Highlights'. Francis was playing with the Spectres (forerunner of Status Quo) at the time and Rick was sufficiently impressed to approach him with a view to working together. Nothing came of the meeting until 1967 when Rick joined Francis, Alan Lancaster and John Coghlan to form the classic Quo lineup. Rick has been a continuous member of the group (while others have come and gone) and has penned many of their biggest hits - notably ''Whatever You Want''. He wrote a solo album while Status Quo had temporarily broken up but it was never released. He had a quadruple Heart Bypass in 1997. In December 2005 it was announced that he is to undergo tests for suspected throat cancer, but was further announced just before Christmas that the tests had found the growths to be benign. |
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