Blue for You

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Blue for You
BlueForYou StatusQuo.jpg
Studio album by
Status Quo
Released12 March 1976 [1]
RecordedDecember 1975 – January 1976
StudioPhonogram Studios, London
Genre Hard rock, heavy metal
Length37:09
Label Vertigo (UK)
Capitol (North America)
Producer Damon Lyon-Shaw, Status Quo
Status Quo chronology
On the Level
(1975)		Blue for You
(1976)		 Live!
(1977)
Singles from Blue for You
  1. "Rain"
    Released: 6 February 1976 [2]
  2. "Mystery Song"
    Released: 1976
Professional ratings
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Blue for You is the ninth studio album by English 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, which resulted in subsequent albums having a noticeably lighter, more pop oriented sound.[ citation needed ]

Contents

Rick Parfitt's "Rain", the first single from the album, reached number seven 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 one and stayed there for three weeks, making it one of their most successful long players. It was released in the US with a different, black and silver cover, as the self-titled Status Quo.

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. Its B-side was a new Rossi/Lancaster composition, "All Through the Night". The single reached number 9 in the UK.

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Lead vocalsLength
1."Is There a Better Way" Francis Rossi, Alan Lancaster Lancaster3:31
2."Mad About the Boy" Francis Rossi, Bob Young Rossi3:35
3."Ring of A Change"Rossi, YoungRossi3:40
4."Blue For You" Alan Lancaster Lancaster4:08
5."Rain" Rick Parfitt Parfitt4:24
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Lead vocalsLength
6."Rolling Home"Rossi, LancasterLancaster3:01
7."That's A Fact"Rossi, YoungRossi4:20
8."Ease Your Mind"LancasterLancaster3:12
9."Mystery Song"Parfitt, YoungParfitt6:44

2005 reissue bonus tracks

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

2017 deluxe edition disc 2

  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

with:

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [16] 3× Platinum150,000^
Netherlands (NVPI) [19] Gold25,000 [19]
France (SNEP) [20] Gold100,000*
New Zealand (RMNZ) [21] Platinum15,000^
Spain (PROMUSICAE) [22] Platinum100,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [23] Gold100,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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