{"id":3257,"date":"2013-06-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/06\/18\/francis-rossi-from-status-quo-used-to-spend-p1200-a-week-on-the-drug\/"},"modified":"2013-06-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T00:00:00","slug":"francis-rossi-from-status-quo-used-to-spend-p1200-a-week-on-the-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2013\/06\/18\/francis-rossi-from-status-quo-used-to-spend-p1200-a-week-on-the-drug\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Rossi from Status Quo used to spend \u00a31,200 a week on the drug"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"firstPar\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/da\/Francis-rossi-2007-07-18.jpg\/220px-Francis-rossi-2007-07-18.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"128\" height=\"155\" \/><br \/>Francis Rossi said that he used to spend \u00a31,200 a week on the drug when he  was going through his most hedonistic period, conceding that in today\u2019s money  that would add up to \u00a3169,000 a year.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"secondPar\">\n<p>In an interview with The Telegraph, Rossi said that at one stage the  band, famous for hits such as Whatever You Want, Down Down and Rockin\u2019 All Over  the World, were making so much money they had no idea what to do with it.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"thirdPar\">\n<p>He said: \u201cBy about 1972, cheques for 40 grand and 80 grand were coming in all  over the place. I had a couple of Porsches, a couple of Range Rovers, and I\u2019ve  been known to buy quite a lot of the same thing if I particularly like  something. I was in Germany last year and I bought 19 of the same shirt just  because I liked them, and I didn\u2019t ask how much they cost.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"fourthPar\">\n<p>Indeed Rossi, who formed the band, originally named the Spectres, with his  south London school friend Alan Lancaster in 1962, appears never to have  questioned how much he was spending on drugs once the band became successful.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"fifthPar\">\n<p>He said: \u201cI used to spend \u00a31,200 a week on cocaine, which again doesn\u2019t sound  like that much now.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Source: The Telegraph<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Rossi said that he used to spend \u00a31,200 a week on the drug when&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}