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For the Wet Wet Wet song, see Blue for You/This Time. For the Paul Haig song, see Blue for You (Paul Haig).
Blue for You
File:BlueForYou StatusQuo.jpg
Studio album by
Status Quo
Released12 March 1976[1]
RecordedDecember 1975 – January 1976
StudioPhonogram (London, UK)
Genre
Length37:09
Label
ProducerDamon 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: 2 July 1976[3]
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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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

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Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Lead vocalsLength
1."Is There a Better Way"Francis Rossi, Alan LancasterLancaster3:31
2."Mad About the Boy"Francis Rossi, Bob YoungRossi3:35
3."Ring of a Change"Rossi, YoungRossi3:40
4."Blue for You"Alan LancasterLancaster4:08
5."Rain"Rick ParfittParfitt4:24
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Lead vocalsLength
6."Rolling Home"Rossi, LancasterRossi3:01
7."That's a Fact"Rossi, YoungRossi4:20
8."Ease Your Mind"LancasterLancaster3:12
9."Mystery Song"Parfitt, YoungParfitt6:44

2005 remaster bonus tracks

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  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 bonus tracks

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  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

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Status Quo

with:

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

Charts

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Certifications

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Certifications for Blue for You
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[17] 3× Platinum 150,000^
Netherlands (NVPI)[20] Gold 25,000[20]
France (SNEP)[21] Gold 100,000*
New Zealand (RMNZ)[22] Platinum 15,000^
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[23] Platinum 100,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[24] Gold 100,000^

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

References

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