Blue for You

Blue for You is the ninth studio album by British rock band Status Quo. It was released in March 1976, and is the last album until 1980's Just Supposin' that the band produced themselves.

Rick Parfitt's "Rain", the first single from the album, reached number 7 in the UK Singles Chart after its release in February 1976. Its B-side was the non-album track "You Lost the Love", written by Francis Rossi and Bob Young.

The album was released the following month. It entered the UK Albums Chart at number 1 and stayed there for three weeks, making it one of their most successful albums. In the US, the album was self-titled Status Quo and had a different album cover.

An edited version of Parfitt and Young's "Mystery Song", released in July that year, was the second single from the album, and peaked at number 11 a few months later. Parfitt and Alan Lancaster's "Drifting Away", from their 1974 album Quo, served as the single's B-side.

In December that year the band decided to release a cover of "Wild Side of Life", a song made famous by Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys, and written by Arlie Carter and William Warren, as a non-album single. Its B-side was a new Rossi/Lancaster composition, "All Through the Night". The single reached number 9 in the UK.

Track listing

2005 remaster bonus tracks

10. "You Lost the Love" (Rossi, Young)
11. "Mystery Song [Single Version]" (Parfitt, Young) - 4:00
12. "Wild Side of Life" (Arlie Carter, William Warren) - 3:17
13. "All Through the Night" (Rossi, Lancaster)
14. "Wild Side of Life [Demo Version]" (Carter, Warren)

2017 deluxe edition bonus tracks

1. "You Lost the Love" (Rossi, Young) - 3:01
2. "Mystery Song [Single Version]" (Parfitt, Young) - 4:00
3. "Wild Side of Life" (Arlie Carter, William Warren) - 3:17
4. "All Through the Night" (Rossi, Lancaster) - 3:17
5. "Wild Side of Life [Demo Version]" (Carter, Warren) - 3:52
6. "Most of the Time [Live]" (Rossi, Young) - 3:20
7. "Roadhouse Blues [Live]" (Morrison, Krieger, Densmore, Manzarek) - 12:47
8. "Bye Bye Johnny [Live]" (Berry) - 6:37
9. "Caroline [Live]" (Rossi, Young) - 4:36
10. "In My Chair [Live]" (Rossi, Young) - 4:36
11. "Roll Over Lay Down [Live]" (Rossi, Young, Parfitt, Lancaster, Coghlan) - 6:09
12. "Is There a Better Way [Live]" (Rossi, Lancaster) - 3:43
13. "Rain [Live]" (Parfitt) - 4:37
14. "Honky Tonk Angel [Demo]" (Carter, Warren) - 3:51

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Tracks 6 & 7 recorded live in Stoke 1975

Tracks 8–13 recorded live in Osaka 1976

Tracks 5 and 14 are the same recording

Personnel

Status Quo

• John Coghlan - drums
• Alan Lancaster - bass, guitar, vocals
• Rick Parfitt - guitar, keyboards, vocals
• Francis Rossi - guitar, vocals

with:

• Andy Bown - piano on "Mad About the Boy" and "Ease Your Mind"
• Bob Young - harmonica on "Rolling Home"

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

1. ^ "UK Albums 2". Statusquo.org.uk. Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
2. ^ "Status Quo - Blue for You". Discogs. May 2017. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
3. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated ed. St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 19. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
4. ^ Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish). 1st ed. Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. ISBN 978-951-1-21053-5.
5. ^ "Le Détail des Albums de chaque Artiste – S" (in French). Infodisc.fr. Archived from the original on 22 October 2014. Retrieved 9 June 2012. Select Status Quo from the menu, then press OK.
6. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated ed. St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 428. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
7. ^ "Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. 1976. Archived 3 November 2021 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
8. ^ "Top 50 Albums of 1976". Music Week. 25 December 1976. p. 14. Archived 9 March 2021 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 30 November 2021. – via worldradiohistory.com.