Blue for You

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.

Blue for You
Studio album by
Status Quo
Released12 March 1976
RecordedDecember 1975 – January 1976
StudioPhonogram Studios, London
GenreHard rock, heavy metal
Length37:09
LabelVertigo (UK)
Capitol (North America)
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. "Mystery Song"
    Released: 1976
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic
Sea of Tranquility

Rick Parfitt's "Rain", the first single from the album, reached No. 7 in the UK charts 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 British album chart at No. 1 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 No. 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 No. 9.

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