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“Everybody used to say how great Clapton was, but I remember saying to Eric, ‘You try playing that one riff for eight minutes!’”: How rock legends Status Quo stole a riff from The Doors and built an entire career out of it

Sunday November 23, 2025. 01:00 PM , from Keyboard Magazine
'That song is where the Quo twelve-bar boogie shuffle came from'
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