LEGENDARY UK rock band, Status Quo, will play an outdoor show in Somerset this August at Somerset Rocks.

The Rocking All Over the World band, which has achieved nearly 60 Top 40 hits including two number ones, plus four chart-topping albums, will perform at Taunton’s Vivary Park on Friday, August 26.

Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel will be The Quo’s special guests for the show on the first night of the three-evening music event over August bank holiday weekend.

Francis Rossi of The Quo, which has world-wide record sales of over 118 million, said: “Playing live, outdoors is what we love to do. We’re really looking forward to entertaining our fans in Taunton and being part of Somerset Rocks.”

Status Quo will be followed by Will Young on the Saturday night and Jools Holland and his rhythm and blues orchestra on Sunday, August 28.

St. Margaret’s Somerset Rocks is being promoted and organised with LCC Live Ann Lee, chief executive of St Margaret’s Hospice, said: “This is an amazing coup that such an internationally renowned band is coming to perform at Somerset Rocks.

“We are absolutely thrilled to have secured such a superb line-up for this simply unique music event, aimed at helping to raise awareness of St Margaret’s.”

Tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday, December 11, and are priced from £39.