Blue for You

Blue for You
Blue for You
Studio album by Status Quo
Released	12 March 1976
Recorded	December 1975 – January 1976
Studio	Phonogram (London, UK)
Genre	Hard rock; heavy metal;
Length	37:09
Label	Vertigo (UK); Capitol (North America);
Producer	Damon Lyon-Shaw, Status Quo
Status Quo chronology
Singles from Blue for You
	"Rain"; Released: 6 February 1976; "Mystery Song"; Released: 2 July 1976;

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.

Released12 March 1976^[1]

RecordedDecember 1975 – January 1976

StudioPhonogram (London, UK)

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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.

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No.	Title	Writer(s)	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Is There a Better Way"	Francis Rossi, Alan Lancaster	Lancaster	3:31
2.	"Mad About the Boy"	Francis Rossi, Bob Young	Rossi	3:35
3.	"Ring of a Change"	Rossi, Young	Rossi	3:40
4.	"Blue for You"	Alan Lancaster	Lancaster	4:08
5.	"Rain"	Rick Parfitt	Parfitt	4:24

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Lead vocals	Length
6.	"Rolling Home"	Rossi, Lancaster	Rossi	3:01
7.	"That's a Fact"	Rossi, Young	Rossi	4:20
8.	"Ease Your Mind"	Lancaster	Lancaster	3:12
9.	"Mystery Song"	Parfitt, Young	Parfitt	6:44

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.

Blue for You

Track listing

2005 remaster bonus tracks

2017 deluxe edition bonus tracks

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