What You're Proposing

{{Short description|1980 single by Status Quo}}

{{Infobox song

| name = What You're Proposing

| cover =

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Status Quo

| album = Just Supposin'

| released = {{start date|1980|10|3|df=yes}}

| recorded =

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = Rock{{Cite web|url=https://www.goldradiouk.com/features/song-lists/status-quo-songs-best-ranked/|title=Status Quo's 10 greatest songs, ranked|website=Goldradiouk.com}}

| length = 4:13

| label = Vertigo

| writer = Francis Rossi, Bernie Frost

| producer = Status Quo and John Eden

| prev_title = Living on an Island

| prev_year = 1979

| next_title = Lies

| next_year = 1980

}}

"What You're Proposing" is a single released by the British rock band Status Quo in 1980. It was included on their album Just Supposin'.{{cite web |url=http://www.statusquo.co.uk/records/singles4.htm |title=Status Quo discography |website=Statusquo.co.uk |access-date=2010-01-04}}

The B-side is "A B Blues", a non-album instrumental studio jam. Some later pressings of this single mis-credited Andy Bown as Andy Brown on the B-side composer's credit. The initial pressing run of 75,000 copies of this single were issued with a colour picture sleeve.{{citation needed|date=August 2016}}

The song was reprised, in 2014, for the band's thirty-first studio album Aquostic (Stripped Bare). 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 : Radio 2 In Concert |website=Bbc.co.uk|access-date=25 February 2015}}

Track listing

  1. "What You're Proposing" (Rossi/Frost) (4.13)
  2. "A B Blues" (Rossi/Parfitt/Lancaster/Coghlan/Bown) (4.33)

Charts

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!Chart (1980)

!Peak
position

scope="row"|Australia (Kent Music Report){{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6}}

|62

{{single chart|Austria|4|artist=Status Quo|song=What You're Proposing|rowheader=true}}
{{single chart|Flanders|7|artist=Status Quo|song=What You're Proposing|rowheader=true}}
scope="row"|France (IFOP){{cite web |url=http://www.infodisc.fr/Tubes_Artistes_S.php |title=InfoDisc : Les Tubes de chaque artiste commençant par S|website=Infodisc.fr |access-date=2020-10-29}}

|34

{{single chart|Germany|7|artist=Status Quo|song=What You're Proposing|songid=690|rowheader=true}}
{{single chart|Ireland2|2|song=What You're Proposing|rowheader=true}}
{{single chart|Dutch40|7|song=What You're Proposing|rowheader=true}}
{{single chart|Dutch100|4|song=What You're Proposing|artist=Status Quo|rowheader=true}}
scope="row"|Spain (AFYVE){{Cite web|url=http://listadesuperventas.blogspot.com/2010/02/1980.html|title=Listas de superventas: 1980|date=29 October 2020}}

|3

{{single chart|Switzerland|2|song=What You're Proposing|artist=Status Quo|rowheader=true}}
{{single chart|UKsinglesbyname|2|artist=Status Quo|rowheader=true}}
scope="row"|Zimbabwe (ZIMA) {{Cite web|title=World singles charts and sales TOP 50 in 58 countries: STATUS QUO|url=http://artisteschartsventes.blogspot.com/2014/04/status-quo.html|access-date=2020-10-29|website=World singles charts and sales TOP 50 in 58 countries}}

|14

References