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Blue for You

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{{Infobox album

| name = Blue for You

| type = studio

| artist = Status Quo

| cover = BlueForYou StatusQuo.jpg

| alt =

| released = 12 March 1976{{Cite web |title=UK Albums 2 |url=http://www.statusquo.org.uk/pages/ukalbums2.htm |access-date=2022-10-21 |website=Statusquo.org.uk |archive-date=12 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812211941/http://www.statusquo.org.uk/pages/ukalbums2.htm |url-status=dead }}

| recorded = December 1975 – January 1976

| studio = Phonogram, London

| genre =

| length = 37:09

| label =

| producer = Damon Lyon-Shaw, Status Quo

| prev_title = On the Level

| prev_year = 1975

| next_title = Live!

| next_year = 1977

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Blue for You

| type = studio

| single1 = Rain

| single1date = 6 February 1976{{Cite web|url=http://hitparade.ch/showitem.asp?interpret=Status+Quo&titel=Rain&cat=s|title=Status Quo - Rain|first=Steffen|last=Hung|website=Hitparade.ch}}

| single2 = Mystery Song

| single2date = 2 July 1976{{cite web|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1976/Music-Week-1976-07-03.pdf|title=Music Week|page=44}}

}}

}}

{{Music ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/blue-for-you-mw0000473650|title=Blue for You - Status Quo | Album |website=AllMusic}}

| rev2 = Sea of Tranquility

| rev2Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web |url=https://www.seaoftranquility.org/reviews.php?op=showcontent&id=20021|title =Status Quo: Blue for You (Deluxe Edition) |last=Reid |first=Steven |author-link=Steven Reid |website=Sea of Tranquility |access-date=15 December 2018}}

}}

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.

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

{{track listing

| extra_column = Lead vocals

| headline = Side one

| title1 = Is There a Better Way

| writer1 = Francis Rossi, Alan Lancaster

| extra1 = Lancaster

| length1 = 3:31

| title2 = Mad About the Boy

| writer2 = Francis Rossi, Bob Young

| extra2 = Rossi

| length2 = 3:35

| title3 = Ring of A Change

| writer3 = Rossi, Young

| extra3 = Rossi

| length3 = 3:40

| title4 = Blue For You

| writer4 = Alan Lancaster

| extra4 = Lancaster

| length4 = 4:08

| title5 = Rain

| writer5 = Rick Parfitt

| extra5 = Parfitt

| length5 = 4:24

}}

{{track listing

| extra_column = Lead vocals

| headline = Side two

| title6= Rolling Home

| writer6= Rossi, Lancaster

| extra6= Rossi

| length6=3:01

| title7= That's A Fact

| writer7= Rossi, Young

| extra7= Rossi

| length7= 4:20

| title8= Ease Your Mind

| writer8= Lancaster

| extra8= Lancaster

| length8= 3:12

| title9= Mystery Song

| writer9= Parfitt, Young

| extra9= Parfitt

| length9= 6:44

}}

= 2005 remaster 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 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

{{cite web |url=https://www.discogs.com/de/Status-Quo-Blue-For-You/release/10402253 |access-date=10 April 2021|title=Status Quo - Blue for You |website=Discogs |date=May 2017 }}

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:

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

Charts

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=Weekly charts=

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|+Weekly chart performance for Blue for You

! scope="col"| Chart (1976–1977)

! scope="col"| Peak
position

scope="row"| Australian Albums (Kent Music Report){{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=19}}

| align="center"| 3

{{album chart|Canada|85|chartid=4143b|rowheader=true|access-date=November 8, 2023}}
scope="row"| Finnish Albums (The Official Finnish Charts){{cite book|last=Pennanen|first=Timo|title=Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972|edition=1st|publisher=Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava|location=Helsinki|year=2006|isbn=978-951-1-21053-5 | language= fi}}

| align="center"| 17

scope="row"| French Albums (SNEP){{Cite web|url=http://www.infodisc.fr/Album_S.php |website =Infodisc.fr |language=fr |access-date=9 June 2012 |title=Le Détail des Albums de chaque Artiste – S |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022124902/http://infodisc.fr/Album_A.php |archive-date=22 October 2014 }} Select Status Quo from the menu, then press OK.

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{{Album chart|Netherlands|2|artist=Status Quo|album=Blue for You|rowheader=true|accessdate=November 8, 2023}}
{{Album chart|Germany4|15|id=12388|artist=Status Quo|album=Blue for You|rowheader=true|accessdate=November 8, 2023}}
{{album chart|New Zealand|9|artist=Status Quo|album=Blue for You|rowheader=true|access-date=November 8, 2023}}
{{Album chart|Sweden|3|artist=Status Quo|album=Blue for You|rowheader=true|accessdate=November 8, 2023}}
{{Album chart|UK2|1|date=19760314|rowheader=true|accessdate=November 8, 2023}}

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scope="col"|Chart (2017)

!scope="col"|Peak
position

{{album chart|UKRock|21|date=20170602|rowheader=true|access-date=November 8, 2023}}

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=Year-end charts=

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|+Year-end chart performance for Blue for You

! scope="col"| Chart (1976)

! scope="col"| Position

scope="row"| Australian Albums (Kent Music Report){{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=428}}

| 20

scope="row" | German Albums (Offizielle Top 100){{cite web|url=https://www.offiziellecharts.de/charts/album-jahr/for-date-1976|title=Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts|date=1976|publisher=GfK Entertainment Charts|language=de|access-date=2 April 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211103025932/https://www.offiziellecharts.de/charts/album-jahr/for-date-1976|archive-date=3 November 2021}}

| 28

scope="row" | UK Albums (OCC){{cite magazine |date=25 December 1976 |title=Top 50 Albums of 1976 |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1976/Music-Week-1976-12-25.pdf |url-status=live |magazine=Music Week |page=14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309081449/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1976/Music-Week-1976-12-25.pdf |archive-date=9 March 2021 |via=worldradiohistory.com |access-date=30 November 2021}}

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Certifications

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{{Certification Table Entry|type=album|relyear=1976|region=Australia|award=Platinum|number=3|certyear=1979|certref=}}

{{Certification Table Entry|type=album|relyear=1976|region=Netherlands|award=Gold|certyear=1975|certref={{cite web|url=https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/19037/lot/295/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201220152241/https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/19037/lot/295/|archive-date=20 December 2020|url-status=dead|title=Status Quo: A Dutch "Gold" Sales Award for the Album "Blue For You", November 1975|publisher=Bonhams|access-date=4 February 2021}}|salesamount=25,000|salesref=}}

{{Certification Table Entry|type=album|relyear=1976|region=France|award=Gold|certyear=1976|source=infodisc|artist=Status Quo|title=Blue for You|access-date=4 February 2021}}

{{Certification Table Entry|type=album|relyear=1976|relmonth=3|region=New Zealand|award=Platinum|certyear=1978|certref={{cite book|first=Dean|last=Scapolo|title=The Complete New Zealand Music Charts: 1966–2006|publisher=Maurienne House|year=2007|isbn=978-1-877443-00-8}}}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=Spain|type=album|artist=Status Quo|title=Blue for You|relyear=1976|certyear=1979|award=Platinum|certref={{cite book|url=http://www.mediafire.com/view/x263f6daopkswo8|title=Sólo Éxitos 1959–2002 Año A Año: Certificados 1979–1990|year=2005|publisher=Iberautor Promociones Culturales|language=es|isbn=8480486392}}|access-date=12 September 2019}}

{{Certification Table Entry|type=album|relyear=1976|region=United Kingdom|award=Gold|certyear=1976|artist=Status Quo|title=On The Level|id=964-1538-2|access-date=4 February 2021}}

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References

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External links

  • {{discogs master|87858}}

{{Status Quo}}

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Category:Status Quo (band) albums

Category:1976 albums

Category:Capitol Records albums

Category:Vertigo Records albums

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