Blue for You


Blue for You is the ninth studio album by British rock band Quo (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

  2. "You Lost the Love"
  3. "Mystery Song " - 4:00
  4. "Wild Side of Life" - 3:17
  5. "All Through the Night"
  6. "Wild Side of Life "

2017 deluxe edition bonus tracks

  1. "You Lost the Love" - 3:01
  2. "Mystery Song " - 4:00
  3. "Wild Side of Life" - 3:17
  4. "All Through the Night" - 3:17
  5. "Wild Side of Life " - 3:52
  6. "Most of the Time " - 3:20
  7. "Roadhouse Blues " - 12:47
  8. "Bye Bye Johnny " - 6:37
  9. "Caroline " - 4:36
  10. "In My Chair " - 4:36
  11. "Roll Over Lay Down " - 6:09
  12. "Is There a Better Way " - 3:43
  13. "Rain " - 4:37
  14. "Honky Tonk Angel " - 3:51
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

Weekly charts

Chart Peak
position