Status Quo's Rick Parfitt has admitted he is no longer interested in partying. The 66-year-old musician suffered a near fatal heart attack earlier this year in Australia.
Parfitt was unable to play a gig in Gloucestershire during the summer while recovering, and a stand-in guitarist was drafted in.
Parfitt had a quadruple bypass in 1997, a throat cancer scare in 2005 and suffered a heart attack in 2011. During a webchat with The Guardian a fan asked how, after a life of excess, the guitarist was still "in better shape than I am?"
"How do you know that? Just because I look in better shape...I don't know," replied Parfitt.
"I fail to understand it myself sometimes because I do feel pretty fit really for my age and I don't know how I manage to keep a fair complexion, and I've got all my hair...
"Do I miss the party lifestyle? Not at all. In fact I went to a party at a club a week ago because it was my son's 40th birthday and after an hour, I decided that I had to go because the music was too loud and I wanted to go to bed and that was at 9.15pm. How times have changed. I couldn't bloody wait to get home to bed."
When asked about bands Status Quo had met on the road, the bass-player mentioned ZZ Top.
He said: "They had a lot of trouble following us, because we'd gone out and done this whole hard-hitting set and then they came out and were so laid back, which is their thing, but it took over an hour to get the audience in it, but after that it was great. They were very strange people...maybe they didn't like us because I called the bass player a wally. Rod Stewart. Nice bloke. Really down to earth. One of us. One of the lads."
