page_title: Alan Lancaster
section_title: Later career "The Bombers" (1985–present)
hierarchical_section_title: Alan Lancaster / Career / Later career "The Bombers" (1985–present)
caption_attribution_description: English: Alan Lancaster with vocalist Tyrone Coates and guitarist John Brewster of The Bombers - Crows Nest Hotel, Sydney Australia - 13 December 1988
context_page_description: Alan Charles Lancaster is an English bassist, best known as a founding member of the English rock band Status Quo from 1967 to 1985, with brief reunions in 2013 & 2014. As well as contributing to songwriting, he was also one of the lead vocalists on albums and live concerts taking the lead on tracks such as "Backwater", "Is There a Better Way", "Bye Bye Johnny", "High Flyer" and "Roadhouse Blues", etc.
  Alan Lancaster formed the group in 1962 with his then schoolmate Francis Rossi. His final performance as a full-time member of Status Quo was at Wembley Stadium on 13 July 1985 for the opening of Live Aid. In March 2013 he collaborated with his old bandmates for a series of "Frantic Four" concerts in the UK.
context_section_description: Lancaster continues to live in Sydney, Australia. He joined a new line-up of Australian band The Party Boys in 1987 and then co-produced a hit album, achieving platinum sales. Also achieving 'gold' and reaching the number one spot with hit single "He's Gonna Step On You Again". In 1988, he formed The Bombers, which signed to A&M Records in the US. It was paid the largest advance ever paid to an Australian-based band, but after the band had completed one album, A&M was sold to Phonogram; leaving the band high and dry. The Bombers' original drummer was Lancaster's ex-Status Quo bandmate John Coghlan. Lancaster had been complicit in Coghlan's departure from Status Quo in 1981. The  Bombers supported Cheap Trick (1988), Alice Cooper (1990) and Skid Row (1990) on their tours of Australia. When the Bombers disbanded, Lancaster continued with his then partner John Brewster ("The Angels") with "The Lancaster Brewster Band", in which Angry Anderson performed as a guest artist for some time. Lancaster then formed his own band: Alan Lancaster's Bombers which released an E.P. and toured Scandinavia before disbanding in 1995. As well as writing the theme song for the film Indecent Obsession, he also produced an album for classical pianist Roger Woodward, which achieved platinum sales in Australia.
caption: Lancaster with Tyrone Coates and John Brewster of The Bombers
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