and John Coghlan, the wild man on the kit with a bass drum the size of Africa. (In this new rock world, naturally, they jettisoned the keyboard player.) Quo were a gang. With them was a team that ...

Status Quo (from left to right) Alan Lancaster, Rick Parfitt, John Coghlan and Francis Rossi (Bob Young Archive/PA) Former Status Quo drummer John Coghlan has announced he will lay down his sticks ...

Nonetheless, as a polished-up re-release of a classic live album, a careful remastering of these recordings from Glasgow Apollo in October 1976 (with all three nights’ full performances thrown in), it ...

John Robert Coghlan (born 19 September 1946) is an English musician, best known as the original drummer of the rock band Status Quo. The son of a Glasgow-born father and a London-born half-French ...

The original members of legendary rockers Status Quo have got ­together for the first time in 25 years. Francis Rossi, 62, Rick Parfitt, Alan Lancaster, both 63, and John Coghlan, 65, put their ...

Original Quo drummer John Coghlan talks parents, pubs & Pam Ayres with Steve Kitchen.

Former Status Quo drummer John Coghlan has announced he will lay down his sticks following a farewell tour this year. The 75-year-old, who grew up in Dulwich in south London, joined the ...

Francis Rossi, Rick Parfitt, Alan Lancaster and John Coghlan put their ­differences aside for Hello Quo, a new docu-film 2012: Francis Rossi, Rick Parfitt, Alan Lancaster and John Coghlan(Denis O ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Former Status Quo drummer John Coghlan has announced he will lay down his sticks following a farewell tour this year. The 75-year-old ...