Rockin' All Over the World
by Status Quo
- 131
- BPM
- C major
- Key
- 8B
- Camelot
- 62
- Danceability
- 13
- Acousticness
When Status Quo shot the video for "Rockin' All Over the World", bassist Alan Lancaster was living in Australia and refused to return to the UK, so a dummy holding a bass guitar took his place. The band had recorded their own, heavier arrangement of a song written by John Fogerty, formerly of Creedence Clearwater Revival, who first put it on his second solo album in 1975. Status Quo's version appeared on their 1977 album of the same name and peaked at number 3 in the UK, their 8th UK top ten hit.
Fogerty took it well. He said it was wonderful to have a cover much better known than the original, did not mind that many people believed Status Quo wrote it, and recalled that its success came during a very dark period in his life and made him feel much better. In July 1985 the English band opened Live Aid at Wembley Stadium with it, after the BBC had already made it an unofficial anthem for the event by using it to advertise their coverage.
Football picked it up as well. It became an anthem of English football, played over the PA after England international matches and after every home goal at Bayer Leverkusen. In 1988, for Sport Aid, the band re-recorded it as "Running All Over the World", and that version reached number 17 in the UK.
Rockin' All Over the World runs at 131 BPM, the tempo of techno, trance and big-room dance. In classical terms it sits in allegro territory. A bar of 4/4 lasts 1.83 seconds, and a quarter-note delay is 458 ms. It is in C major, Camelot 8B, which shares its notes with A minor and mixes cleanly with F major and G major.
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