Rockin' All Over the World#Status Quo version
{{Short description|1975 single by John Fogerty}}
{{For|the Status Quo album|Rockin' All Over the World (album)}}
{{Infobox song
| name = Rockin' All Over the World
| cover = Rockin' All Over the World cover.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Dutch vinyl release
| type = single
| artist = John Fogerty
| album = John Fogerty
| B-side = The Wall
| released = August 16, 1975{{Cite web|url=http://hitparade.ch/showitem.asp?interpret=John+Fogerty&titel=Rockin%27+All+Over+The+World&cat=s|title=John Fogerty - Rockin' All Over The World|first=Steffen|last=Hung|website=hitparade.ch}}
| recorded =
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Roots rock, rock and roll
| length = 2:56
| label = Asylum, Warner Bros.
| writer = John Fogerty
| producer = John Fogerty
| prev_title = Comin' Down the Road
| prev_year = 1973
| next_title = Almost Saturday Night
| next_year = 1975
}}
"Rockin' All Over the World" is a rock song written by John Fogerty, formerly of Creedence Clearwater Revival. It made its debut on Fogerty's second solo album in 1975. It was also released as a single, spending six weeks in the US top 40, peaking at #27.{{cite web|title=Chart History: John Fogerty|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/john-fogerty/chart-history|publisher=Billboard|access-date=2020-07-16}}
Status Quo recorded their own, heavier arrangement of Fogerty's song for their 1977 album Rockin' All Over the World. The cover peaked at #3 in the UK Singles Chart and also charted in several other countries. In July 1985, Status Quo opened Live Aid at Wembley Stadium with "Rockin' All Over the World".{{cite news |title=Aaaaaay-o! Aaaaaay-o! Why Live Aid was the greatest show of all |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/live-aid-anniversary-queen-freddie-mercury-performances-bob-geldof-a9612071.html |access-date=13 July 2020 |work=The Independent}} Fogerty has given the cover a positive appraisal, occasionally making joking reference to it as the better-known version in introducing the song at UK gigs, and has talked about how the success of Status Quo's version came during a "very dark period" in his life and "made [him] feel much better". In an interview with Uncut magazine, he said that "it's wonderful to have a cover that's much better known than the original" and stated that he didn't mind that many people mistakenly believed that Status Quo wrote the song.{{cite magazine |title=I still wake up in a sweat at night |page=53 |magazine=Uncut |location=London, UK |publisher=Kelsey Media |date=May 2018}}
Reception
Rolling Stone critic Dave Marsh considered the song a good choice for the album's lead single, although he claimed that it was "little more than the formulaic CCR sound with the title repeated over and over, like a chant."{{cite news|title=John Fogerty|author=Marsh, D.|author-link=Dave Marsh|page=36|newspaper=The Morning Record|date=September 18, 1975|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-vBHAAAAIBAJ&pg=1146,2675310&dq=almost-saturday-night+fogerty&hl=en|access-date=2012-07-27}} Billboard exclaimed "Good news for rock and roll fans. John Fogerty is back, capturing all the deceptively simple magic frantic feel that made Creedence a groundbreaking rock group in the '60s," praising the vocals, instrumentals and the title.{{cite news|title=Top Single Picks|newspaper=Billboard|access-date=2020-07-16|date=August 23, 1975|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/70s/1975/Billboard%201975-08-23.pdf|page=62}} Cash Box said that "every kid in town should sit up and take note of the simple drive, and cut out all that complicated crud."{{cite news|title=CashBox Singles Reviews|date=August 30, 1975|page=12|access-date=2021-12-11|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1975/CB-1975-08-30.pdf|newspaper=Cash Box}}
Status Quo version
{{Infobox song
| name = Rockin' All Over the World
| cover = Rockin' All over the World by Status Quo UK vinyl cover A.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Artwork for the UK vinyl release, also used for some international releases and the parent album of the same name
| type = single
| artist = Status Quo
| album = Rockin' All Over the World
| released = September 30, 1977{{cite web|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1977/Music-Week-1977-10-01.pdf|title=Music Week|page=102}}
| recorded =
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Boogie rock
| length = 3:33
| label = Vertigo
| writer = John Fogerty
| producer = Pip Williams
| prev_title = Wild Side of Life
| prev_year = 1976
| next_title = Rockers Rollin' / Hold You Back
| next_year = 1977
| misc = {{Extra chronology
| artist =
| type =
| prev_title = Ain't Complaining
| prev_year = 1988
| title = Running All Over the World
| year = 1988
| next_title = Burning Bridges (On and Off and On Again)
| next_year = 1988
}}
}}
During the recording of Status Quo's music video to the song, bassist Alan Lancaster was living in Australia. He had refused to return to the UK for the recording, so he was replaced by a dummy with a bass guitar in the video. Quo's version was their 8th UK top ten hit, peaking at #3.
At Live Aid, Status Quo began their set (and thus the event itself, as they were the opening band) with "Rockin' All Over the World" which first became an unofficial anthem for the event when the BBC used it to advertise their TV coverage. Coldplay performed a portion of the song at Live 8, with lead singer Chris Martin singing the chorus during the song "In My Place", after much was made of Status Quo's absence from the concert in the British media.
The song has found widespread usage in the sports world. In 1988, to support Sport Aid, Status Quo re-recorded the song as "Running All Over the World" with slightly amended lyrics. It reached #17 in the UK Singles Chart. In the 21st century, Status Quo's 1977 rendition has become both an anthem of English football and European football more broadly, including as German side Bayer Leverkusen's post-goal track (a song played over the PA system whenever a goal is scored by the home team).{{Cite web|url=https://www.bayer04.de/en-us/news/bundesliga/%7B%7B%20vm.common.getSiteCanonicalTag()%20%7C%20trustUrl%20%7D%7D|title=FACTS AND STATS AGAINST FAVOURITE OPPONENT|website=Bayer04.de|access-date=28 July 2022}} The song is played over the PA system after England international matches, to which the crowd sings along. It is also popular as a crowd chant, with both original and modified lyrics, at various clubs around England, including Arsenal{{cite web | url=https://www.caughtoffside.com/2022/03/28/emile-smith-rowe-claims-one-teammate-cant-stop-playing-rockin-all-over-the-world-viral-chant/ | title=Emile Smith-Rowe discusses ring leader of viral chant|website=Caughtoffside.com | date=28 March 2022 }} (modified, "Saka and Emile Smith Rowe"), Millwall{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17j4rFPAaLY | title=Rocking All over the World | Millwall - Charlton Athletic | South London Derby | website=YouTube }}{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/millwallfc/status/1089530970691100672|title= The Den was Rockin' All Over The World following the final whistle yesterday evening...|website=Twitter.com|access-date=28 July 2022}} (original) and Wrexham (modified, "Super Ben Foster In Goal").{{Cite web|url=https://nation.cymru/sport/watch-the-brilliant-super-ben-foster-videos-that-are-going-viral/|title=Watch: The brilliant 'Super Ben Foster' videos that are going viral|date=April 14, 2023|website=Nation.Cymru}} The song was also adapted by England and Manchester United women's teams fans as "Tooney and Lessi Russo". Following Alessia Russo's transfer to Arsenal, Ella Toone admitted that she was upset to hear the chant modified as "Lotte and Lessi Russo" when Manchester United faced Arsenal.{{cite web |last1=Ruszkai |first1=Ameé |title='That hurt' - Man Utd star Ella Toone reveals how Arsenal fans broke her heart by changing lyrics to iconic Alessia Russo chant during WSL clash |url=https://www.goal.com/en/lists/man-utd-ella-toone-arsenal-lyrics-alessia-russo-chant-wsl/blt675a97dfce6bcfac#csf718672191b46e40 |website=Goal.com |publisher=Goal.com |access-date=22 April 2024 |date=5 April 2024}} Bolton Wanderers uses the song whenever the home team wins their matches at home. A portion of the song was played in the background music of the episode of the ITV Sport show English Football League Highlights when Katie Shanahan was presenting a match between Millwall and Sunderland.
Another re-recorded version by Status Quo - a cover of the original 1977 record - appeared on their album Riffs in 2003. The song was reprised once again, in 2014, for Status Quo's thirty-first studio album, Aquostic (Stripped Bare), as an acoustic arrangement. It was featured in the ninety-minute launch performance of the album at London's Roundhouse on 22 October, the concert being recorded and broadcast live by BBC Radio 2 as part of their In Concert series.{{cite web|url=http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/status-quo/2014/roundhouse-london-england-bccc99e.html|title=Status Quo Concert Setlist at Roundhouse, London on October 22, 2014|website=Setlist.fm|access-date=25 February 2015}}{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/t5RRN4k2Y2dDhcxdtkfjfN/status-quo-acoustic |title=Status Quo - Acoustic |website=Bbc.co.uk|access-date=25 February 2015}}
= Weekly charts =
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!Chart (1977–1978) !Peak |
| {{single chart|Austria|22|artist=Status Quo|song=Rockin' All Over the World|rowheader=true|access-date=16 Jan 2022|refname=}} |
| {{single chart|Flanders|18|artist=Status Quo|song=Rockin' All Over the World|rowheader=true|access-date=6 June 2014}} |
| {{single chart|Wallonia|38|artist=Status Quo|song=Rockin' All Over the World|rowheader=true|access-date=6 June 2014}} |
| scope="row" | French Singles(SNEP){{Cite web|url=http://www.infodisc.fr/Album_S.php |website =Infodisc.fr |language=fr |access-date=9 June 2012 |title=Le Détail des Albums de chaque Artiste – S |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022124902/http://infodisc.fr/Album_A.php |archive-date=22 October 2014 }} Select Status Quo from the menu, then press OK.
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| {{single chart|Germany|7|artist=Status Quo|song=Rockin' All Over the World|rowheader=true|songid=485|access-date=6 June 2014}} |
| {{single chart|Ireland2|1|song=Rockin' All Over the World|rowheader=true|access-date=15 April 2008}} |
| {{single chart|Dutch100|11|artist=Status Quo|song=Rockin' All Over the World|rowheader=true|access-date=6 June 2014}} |
| {{single chart|New Zealand|29|artist=Status Quo|song=Rockin' All Over the World|rowheader=true|access-date=6 June 2014}} |
| {{single chart|Switzerland|3|artist=Status Quo|song=Rockin' All Over the World|rowheader=true|access-date=6 June 2014}} |
| {{single chart|UK|3|date=19771113|rowheader=true|access-date=2 July 2013}} |
= Certifications =
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{{Certification Table Entry|type=single|region=United Kingdom|artist=Status Quo|title=Rockin' All Over the World|award=Platinum|certyear =2025|relyear=2004|access-date=5 June 2025|refname=UK certification|id=5593-1538-1}}
{{Certification Table Bottom|nosales=true|streaming=true|noshipments=true}}
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