One of the greatest British bands of all time their style is 12 bar blues over many decades...I grew up in the UK and moved to Australia in 1970, back in the very early 1960 in the UK I was lead singer in a local band "The Demons" I was 20 years old and our rhythm guitarist was only 14 years old at the time he had blonde hair and always got a lot of attention from the girls his name Rick Parfitt he became the blond guy in Status Quo...I was privileged to meet up with him every time Status Quo came to Melbourne for a concert I got back stage passes, at one time I was managing a rock band here in Melb and Bob Young who was Status Quo's tour manager got me back stage passes for myself and my band members which was a real treat...Sadly my friend Rick Parfitt died about 6 years ago, I was in touch with him a month or so before he died he told me he was working on his last album "Over and Out"...R.I.P. my good friend Rick.
They were a band that 'thrived on the live' - I've seen them live over thirty times, starting back in '79 as a thirteen year old with hair halfway down to my arse. They never get the credit they deserve for being incredible musicians & putting on good shows.
no matter how many times some one sees them live, its never going to be enough, we have just seen them again in Liverpool 16 August 2024, and Rossi at 75 is still playing like he is 30 ...
I think this was the first Status Quo song I ever heard and I still think it's one of their best. It demonstrates how they were much cleverer writers and musicians than they were usually given credit for. One of my favourite all-time riffs.
Quo were so incredible back in the 1970's, they were untouchable - the band that got me into hard rock aged 8 back in 1974, and so ultimately to Metal and being a lifetime Metalhead 🤘
From their 1976, 'Blue For You', album. The album version being much better than the single release, as you can tell. There's a good reason why this song is so fast. Rick Parfitt, wrote it over-night whilst left on his own in the studio when everyone else went home for the evening. He was, 'helped', somewhat in his creativity by having consumed a cup of tea laced with a teaspoon of speed, placed into it as a joke, by fellow band member, Francis Rossi. The resultant song was, 'Mystery Song', which, if you haven't twigged yet by listening to the lyrics, is about a young man's interest in a prostitute and the desire to have her all to himself.
Thanks for reacting to my favourite Quo song. ❤ Best live band I ever saw and this was the music I grew up to. Happy days. Respect from Glasgow Scotland 🙏😎
@@garylancaster8612 unfortunately not but that album was played relentlessly in my bedroom too. I first saw them at the Apollo in '78, a year after that album was released, as a 12 year old. Best gig I ever saw although ACDC in the Apollo were always fantastic too. To be fair I didn't see a bad gig there. Deep Purple, Rainbow, Lizzy, Zeppelin, Sabbath, Priest, Saxon, Rush, Motor head, Rory Gallagher and Whitesnake to name but a few. Even saw Def Leppard as a support band to a band called Magnum. The list is endless. Great venue, great memories and great music. 👌👍😎 Just been to see Priest /Saxon / Uriah Heap at the new hydro in Glasgow. Amazing 👌🙏😎
Brilliant review. And well done for choosing the album version of this song. The Single version does not have the intro or outro and is the poorer for it (but yes it's more radio friendly). As the closing song on Blue For You, this was possibly the last great song that Quo produced, since they turned into a more pop oriented band after this. Another thing you need to know if you want to impress your Quo friends is, Quo from 1972 to 1976 are colloquially know as "The Frantic Four". This helps to define the band in terms of their different musical eras. I'm very much a Frantic Four fan!
Being a 60’s Soul music fan all my life, Status Quo would not be high on my list…but their earlier stuff was great….”In my Chair” still sounds incredible…”Down the Dustpipe” too still does it for me. Perhaps one of those or from that same era would be good.
One of the greatest discoveries I ever made as a person on this strange Planet was that Status Quo had an existence prior to the PILEDRIVER album. It's impossible to put into superlatives how thrilled and impressed I was when I heard their Psychedelic Pop/Rock songs of the 60's and their albums from 1970 "Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon" & 1971 "Dog of Two Head" As a young fella of 12 yrs old in 1973, it was hard to put into perspective that PILEDRIVER was the same Band that I'd heard a few years earlier playing "Pictures of Matchstickmen" and "Down the Dustpipe". It was also difficult to associate "Pictures of Matchstickmen" and "Down the Dustpipe" as being made by the same Band. The dirty, bluesy, grungy "In My Chair" is a whole different matter for long discussion....... "I put my car back in my pocket and I'm still here in my chair" The saddest story in music history is that of Francis Rossi destroying the best and greatest Rock Band of all time by changing music styles with "Marguerita Time" in 1983.
Yeah what were they thinking, glad they never played that on their end of the road tour, they should have just left it on that tour, was a great way to finish and they still were performing great.
One of the greatest discoveries I ever made as a person on this strange Planet was that Status Quo had an existence prior to the PILEDRIVER album. It's impossible to put into superlatives how thrilled and impressed I was when I heard their Psychedelic Pop/Rock songs of the 60's and their albums from 1970 "Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon" & 1971 "Dog of Two Head" As a young fella of 12 yrs old in 1973, it was hard to put into perspective that PILEDRIVER was the same Band that I'd heard a few years earlier playing "Pictures of Matchstickmen" and "Down the Dustpipe". It was also difficult to associate "Pictures of Matchstickmen" and "Down the Dustpipe" as being made by the same Band. The dirty, bluesy, grungy "In My Chair" is a whole different matter for long discussion....... "I put my car back in my pocket and I'm still here in my chair" The saddest story in music history is that of Francis Rossi destroying the best and greatest Rock Band of all time STATUS QUO, by changing music styles with "Marguerita Time" in 1983. RIP - Rick Parfitt RIP - Alan Lancaster
Great review of the album version. Blue for you was UK no’1 for 3 weeks & charted for 30 week in total. In the states the album was entitled Status Quo & peaked at no’148, staying in the Billboard 200 for 7 weeks. Quo toured the States during this period, unfortunately though they received very little airplay & lacked any quality representation. These guys are a great live band. Check out Quo live at Milton Keynes 1984 & Download 2014.
Loved this, one of the best 'Quo' songs from '76 (I think), the beginning is reminiscent of their earlier stuff like, "Pictures of Matchstick Men" 1968, and also of their slower songs such as "Living on an Island" from '78 or '79, I can't remember which but it was around that time.
Status Quo (Stay-tus Kwo) were a British Institution they shifted millions upon millions UPON millions of records here in the UK, but for some reason, never cracked the US. It’s one of those great unsolved mysteries of the world like Crop circles and why kids never swap the empty toilet roll for a new roll once it’s finished. 🤷
Yes, this is one of their best. I saw them on the "End of the Road Tour" at the Hammy Odeon in 82. They were a powerful rockin band with those Vox AC30's. Then 4 years later i saw them as pale comparison supporting Queen. Then a year or 2 later i saw them at Reading Festival and they had improved. Mind you, i wouldn't subject the Haniers to anything written after the 70s from them!
So glad you did the album version. This happens to be one of my personal favourites by Quo, during this era. One of 2 songs picked as singles from their 1976, 'Blue For You', album. The other being, 'Rain.' Both sang by Rick Parfitt. Apparently, this song came about from the result of a teaspoon full of speed put into a cup of tea, as a joke, with Rick drinking the whole lot without so much as a care. Everyone else went home for the night, but he was left in the studio on his own, buzzing from the effects. Everyone else came back the next day and he was still there, still strumming the riff to this song as a result, but he had the words and music all sorted during that drug fuelled night. You can work out for yourself why they called it, 'Mystery Song.' The subject matter is pretty obvious. 'Ring Of A Change', is another from this album that you should listen to.
I love everything that Status Quo did,.do. Have you ever thought of playing some of their psychedelic stuff from the 60s. Technicolour Dreams , Ice In The Sun, Pictures of Matchstick Men come to mind
The song is about a prostitute.Quo have so many fantastic songs,too many to mention.Any chance that you could a reaction to "Don't Was Waste My Time"? It's my favourite Quo track,it's on the album "Piledriver",or better still the version they did for "Live Aid" in July 1985.
Americans and Canadians should be very angry with their Radio Stations and Record Companies for not supporting or promoting the best and greatest Rock Band in history. Americans and Canadians are only finding out about the best and greatest Rock Band in history after the fact, after they existed at their height of fame, after they conquered the rest of the World decades ago.
Glad you liked it. The single version (which is what I first heard) is just the fast loud bit in the middle, which works very well, but I have grown to appreciate the long version as it gives more light and shade to the track. The mid-seventies is Quo at their best. By the eighties, when they brought in a keyboard player, things were on the slide.
From their (Blue for you) album... they did a deal with Levi's hence the album cover, Levi's had some posters with "Status Quo wear Levi's " Great video by the way, and hello from Wales 🏴
@@alanhobden8847 I always thought it was …… you know what all teenage girls in UK used ST was short for. If you’re right I’m a far happier man as this has been on my playlist since they were in mix tapes!!
The album is 'Blue for You' and got its name as part of a sponsorship deal Quo secured with Levi's in 1976. So the album cover was used as a billboard for Levi's at the time. This was actually one of the earliest ever sponsorship deals between a commercial product and an artist. Unfortunately, and as far as I'm aware this is true but please correct me if I'm wrong, the band were naive enough then to not check the small print and never received any money for the deal!
They actually received a roll of denim from Levi Strauss for the deal. I remember Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt mentioning it on a TV interview, with Francis concluding "here sitteth two schmucks!"
One of the best rock albums of all time. One of Quo's finest. The reason for the denim... They had a sponsorship deal with Levi's. For promoting the brand they got... rolls of denim! Their management at the time and Levi's, ripped them off big time
What are 'STs' in Mystery Song? (Status Quo) Rick Pafitt was asked this question by someone on the mailing list: it means 'Stocking Tops,' apparently. The song itself is actually about a prostitute, as confirmed by Francis Rossi at Reading in December 1997. Blue For You - Status Quo’s 1976 Album. The 1976 “Mystery Song”, co-written with Bob Young, was composed after Rossi had laced Parfitt’s tea with amphetamine sulphate during the sessions for the Blue for You album. Rossi later said: “He was playing the riff when we left the studio, and he was still playing it when we came back the next day!”
Love your reaction .that was Rick singing (the blonde one) and one of my favourite songs .Now you have to play “Roll over lay down” another favourite ,also have a look at “ Rocking all over the World “ from the Live Aid concert 1985 it’s the opening song from Wembley stadium .keep up the great songs .cheers from Australia 🍻😀
Wrote by Rick Parfitt, the lads left Rick on his own in the studio . Rick was shoving stuff up his nose all night, when the band arrived at the studio next day Rick was still there and "Mystery Song" was born.
Open G tuning courtesy of the late, great Rick Parfiit, the others left him in the studio and fortified by much Cocaine he came up with this fantastic song, they where peaking at this point, definitely not a three chord band!
Rossi spiked Rick's cup of tea with a couple of spoonfulls of speed. Left him in the studio and came back next morning to find him still there having had no sleep but having pretty much finished writing Mystery Song.
Quo took over my life i talk about them all the time they were just the best thing that ever happend in my life took me to places far away with there sound met lots of people through them if only it was 1973😢
One of Quo's classic hits. The song concerns a young man's encounter with a lady of the night. Not sure if youtube would let me write the P word Lol I love how Cynthia really gets into the mood when listening to Status Quo.
It’s called Mystery Song because when Rick Parfitt was writing it , sitting up all night in the studio playing the riff( he’d ingested a lot of speed) , quite simply he couldn’t remember what he’d called it!!
this track is Fun, but you could equal with Deep Purple's Strange Kind of Woman regarding the content. goes country funk at the end. really good album but i would recommend from the same album Is There a Better Way!
The story goes (documented), that after a long day rehearsing and recording, Rick Parfitt was out for the count but wanted to stay behind to work on a few other bits. Francis Rossi slipped a teaspoon of speed in Rick's tea (unbeknown to Rick) and they all left. Rick drank the tea and wrote this song in a matter of hours about him trying to win over the love of a prostitute. Hence the 'speed' of the track and I have never heard anything as fast as this. One of my all time favourites
"Mystery Song" was banned by radio stations due to the lyric content. So JJ 1540am radio in Sydney played it a lot in 1976. JJ 1540am radio was a Govt. station and didn't have any advertisers to offend. Australia can thank The Whitlam Labor government for that.
The tempo of mystery song along with a few songs is both great and bad as a driving song or even worse as a song to listen to when riding a motorcycle. Get on a twisty road and hav mystery song blasting through the earbuds and you want to travel a lot quicker than is legal. 😂😂😂 As has already been commented, in my chair and down the dust pipe along with spinning wheel blues are Quo at what you might call their transition stage, British style blues, bloody great. 👍👍 Late sixties, early seventies British style blues was all the rage, Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, Fleetwood Mac, Ten Years After, Rory Gallagher, just to name a few.
Brilliant Stuff!! Thank so much for playing the `Blue For You` Album Version!! (Sponsored by Levi`s) Song is about a prostitute. Love you Guys!! Big Up x
Hi hanier family the track from status quo called mystery song is about a prostitute, that's why they called it mystery song. So it didn't offend anyone
One of the greatest British bands of all time their style is 12 bar blues over many decades...I grew up in the UK and moved to Australia in 1970, back in the very early 1960 in the UK I was lead singer in a local band "The Demons" I was 20 years old and our rhythm guitarist was only 14 years old at the time he had blonde hair and always got a lot of attention from the girls his name Rick Parfitt he became the blond guy in Status Quo...I was privileged to meet up with him every time Status Quo came to Melbourne for a concert I got back stage passes, at one time I was managing a rock band here in Melb and Bob Young who was Status Quo's tour manager got me back stage passes for myself and my band members which was a real treat...Sadly my friend Rick Parfitt died about 6 years ago, I was in touch with him a month or so before he died he told me he was working on his last album "Over and Out"...R.I.P. my good friend Rick.
I have been a quo fanatic since 1973 I never knew rick was in a band called the demons iam totally blown away by this nice one
What a news!!!! I'm sure nobody knows about rick's first band name! lucky you!
They were a band that 'thrived on the live' - I've seen them live over thirty times, starting back in '79 as a thirteen year old with hair halfway down to my arse. They never get the credit they deserve for being incredible musicians & putting on good shows.
Only say them 9 times live im jealous
no matter how many times some one sees them live, its never going to be enough, we have just seen them again in Liverpool 16 August 2024, and Rossi at 75 is still playing like he is 30 ...
I think this was the first Status Quo song I ever heard and I still think it's one of their best. It demonstrates how they were much cleverer writers and musicians than they were usually given credit for. One of my favourite all-time riffs.
Quo were so incredible back in the 1970's, they were untouchable - the band that got me into hard rock aged 8 back in 1974, and so ultimately to Metal and being a lifetime Metalhead 🤘
ME TOO!!!!!!
Rain from this album for me is another banger from this album.👍🏻🏴
When this album came out everyone at High School wanted to look like them. Denim was everywhere. This song and Rain were my favourites off the album.
From their 1976, 'Blue For You', album. The album version being much better than the single release, as you can tell. There's a good reason why this song is so fast. Rick Parfitt, wrote it over-night whilst left on his own in the studio when everyone else went home for the evening. He was, 'helped', somewhat in his creativity by having consumed a cup of tea laced with a teaspoon of speed, placed into it as a joke, by fellow band member, Francis Rossi. The resultant song was, 'Mystery Song', which, if you haven't twigged yet by listening to the lyrics, is about a young man's interest in a prostitute and the desire to have her all to himself.
And that killer riff came from him experimenting with open G tuning.
The LP is Blue For You and is fi 76.
Thanks for reacting to my favourite Quo song. ❤ Best live band I ever saw and this was the music I grew up to. Happy days. Respect from Glasgow Scotland 🙏😎
You weren't at the classic Glasgow Apollo gig where they recorded the live album were you? I played that album until the grooves wore out.
@@garylancaster8612 unfortunately not but that album was played relentlessly in my bedroom too. I first saw them at the Apollo in '78, a year after that album was released, as a 12 year old. Best gig I ever saw although ACDC in the Apollo were always fantastic too. To be fair I didn't see a bad gig there. Deep Purple, Rainbow, Lizzy, Zeppelin, Sabbath, Priest, Saxon, Rush, Motor head, Rory Gallagher and Whitesnake to name but a few. Even saw Def Leppard as a support band to a band called Magnum. The list is endless. Great venue, great memories and great music. 👌👍😎 Just been to see Priest /Saxon / Uriah Heap at the new hydro in Glasgow. Amazing 👌🙏😎
Brilliant review. And well done for choosing the album version of this song. The Single version does not have the intro or outro and is the poorer for it (but yes it's more radio friendly). As the closing song on Blue For You, this was possibly the last great song that Quo produced, since they turned into a more pop oriented band after this. Another thing you need to know if you want to impress your Quo friends is, Quo from 1972 to 1976 are colloquially know as "The Frantic Four". This helps to define the band in terms of their different musical eras. I'm very much a Frantic Four fan!
This band was great live full of fun cheers both for another great song.
Still a great band.
Seen them 63 times from 1977 to 2023.
Got tickets for 2 gigs in 2024
I been a fan of this band since I was 12, and now I'm 64 there's no band like the QUO
'In my chair' and 'Down the dustpipe' are an absolute must, as someone else has already mentioned.
The album is called Blue For You , Fantastic band , Fantastic Album , cheers from 🇦🇺🎸🎸
Being a 60’s Soul music fan all my life, Status Quo would not be high on my list…but their earlier stuff was great….”In my Chair” still sounds incredible…”Down the Dustpipe” too still does it for me. Perhaps one of those or from that same era would be good.
One of the greatest discoveries I ever made as a person on this strange Planet was that Status Quo had an existence prior to the PILEDRIVER album.
It's impossible to put into superlatives how thrilled and impressed I was when I heard their Psychedelic Pop/Rock songs of the 60's and their albums from
1970 "Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon" & 1971 "Dog of Two Head"
As a young fella of 12 yrs old in 1973, it was hard to put into perspective that PILEDRIVER was the same Band that I'd heard a few years earlier playing
"Pictures of Matchstickmen" and "Down the Dustpipe".
It was also difficult to associate "Pictures of Matchstickmen"
and "Down the Dustpipe" as being made by the same Band.
The dirty, bluesy, grungy "In My Chair" is a whole different matter for long discussion.......
"I put my car back in my pocket and I'm still here in my chair"
The saddest story in music history is that of Francis Rossi destroying
the best and greatest Rock Band of all time by changing music styles with "Marguerita Time" in 1983.
In the beginning, i loved the quo , what a guitar band, then they got all Margaretta time and it was over for me 🏴✌️
Yeah what were they thinking, glad they never played that on their end of the road tour, they should have just left it on that tour, was a great way to finish and they still were performing great.
And "We're in the army now"😮
Spot on for me as well. From 1976 at the Apollo through to 1984. Best live band in their heyday.
So One song ruined it all for you..? And after that all they have done is nothing..?? That just weird...
@@leiper72 no the fact the quo started to cater more to my mum and dad's taste put me off, I don't blame them that's where the money was , 🏴✌️
This was released as we were forming our first band 'Black Water' during school days - we had to learn and perform it! Thanks for the memory
Band should've been called BACKWATER!!!!!!
the double denim dudes done some cracking singles
down the dust pipe
Caroline
rain
down down
paper plain
list goes on guys
First album I heard of them was the Quo album way back in around..78 maybe75 ?..I was hooked and never left
Super band of 70'
😊
Still touring today.. but last year now 2024.. You have probably not get it...
Another QUO classic absolutely brilliant.
One of the greatest discoveries I ever made as a person on this strange Planet was that Status Quo had an existence prior to the PILEDRIVER album.
It's impossible to put into superlatives how thrilled and impressed I was when I heard their Psychedelic Pop/Rock songs of the 60's and their albums from
1970 "Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon" & 1971 "Dog of Two Head"
As a young fella of 12 yrs old in 1973, it was hard to put into perspective that PILEDRIVER was the same Band that I'd heard a few years earlier playing
"Pictures of Matchstickmen" and "Down the Dustpipe".
It was also difficult to associate "Pictures of Matchstickmen"
and "Down the Dustpipe" as being made by the same Band.
The dirty, bluesy, grungy "In My Chair" is a whole different matter for long discussion.......
"I put my car back in my pocket and I'm still here in my chair"
The saddest story in music history is that of Francis Rossi destroying
the best and greatest Rock Band of all time STATUS QUO, by changing music styles with "Marguerita Time" in 1983.
RIP - Rick Parfitt
RIP - Alan Lancaster
Great call. This blew my mind as a teenager back then. The album was 'Blue for you' & this was my favourite track. Keep it up. ; )
Great review of the album version. Blue for you was UK no’1 for 3 weeks & charted for 30 week in total. In the states the album was entitled Status Quo & peaked at no’148, staying in the Billboard 200 for 7 weeks. Quo toured the States during this period, unfortunately though they received very little airplay & lacked any quality representation. These guys are a great live band. Check out Quo live at Milton Keynes 1984 & Download 2014.
Loved this, one of the best 'Quo' songs from '76 (I think), the beginning is reminiscent of their earlier stuff like, "Pictures of Matchstick Men" 1968, and also of their slower songs such as "Living on an Island" from '78 or '79, I can't remember which but it was around that time.
Status Quo (Stay-tus Kwo) were a British Institution they shifted millions upon millions UPON millions of records here in the UK, but for some reason, never cracked the US. It’s one of those great unsolved mysteries of the world like Crop circles and why kids never swap the empty toilet roll for a new roll once it’s finished. 🤷
My favourite Quo song from my fav Quo album, Blue For You. Thanks!
Yes, this is one of their best. I saw them on the "End of the Road Tour" at the Hammy Odeon in 82. They were a powerful rockin band with those Vox AC30's. Then 4 years later i saw them as pale comparison supporting Queen. Then a year or 2 later i saw them at Reading Festival and they had improved. Mind you, i wouldn't subject the Haniers to anything written after the 70s from them!
So glad you did the album version. This happens to be one of my personal favourites by Quo, during this era. One of 2 songs picked as singles from their 1976, 'Blue For You', album. The other being, 'Rain.' Both sang by Rick Parfitt. Apparently, this song came about from the result of a teaspoon full of speed put into a cup of tea, as a joke, with Rick drinking the whole lot without so much as a care. Everyone else went home for the night, but he was left in the studio on his own, buzzing from the effects. Everyone else came back the next day and he was still there, still strumming the riff to this song as a result, but he had the words and music all sorted during that drug fuelled night. You can work out for yourself why they called it, 'Mystery Song.' The subject matter is pretty obvious. 'Ring Of A Change', is another from this album that you should listen to.
I love everything that Status Quo did,.do. Have you ever thought of playing some of their psychedelic stuff from the 60s. Technicolour Dreams , Ice In The Sun, Pictures of Matchstick Men come to mind
Loved them in the 70's, love them 2024.
The song is about a prostitute.Quo have so many fantastic songs,too many to mention.Any chance that you could a reaction to "Don't Was Waste My Time"? It's my favourite Quo track,it's on the album "Piledriver",or better still the version they did for "Live Aid" in July 1985.
Piledriver and the Live Lp are for me the best of their stuff.
And their list is looong!!!
Whatever you want, should be your next Quo song
This song is a real classic.
Great video! My fav Quo song growing up :)
Americans and Canadians should be very angry with their Radio Stations and Record Companies for not supporting or promoting the best and greatest Rock Band in history.
Americans and Canadians are only finding out about the best and greatest Rock Band in history after the fact, after they existed at their height of fame, after they conquered the rest of the World decades ago.
Roll over, lay down, is also a fantastic track 👌
Class :)
Glad you liked it. The single version (which is what I first heard) is just the fast loud bit in the middle, which works very well, but I have grown to appreciate the long version as it gives more light and shade to the track. The mid-seventies is Quo at their best. By the eighties, when they brought in a keyboard player, things were on the slide.
You picked the best version, thanks for that. And one of their greatest songs
From their (Blue for you) album... they did a deal with Levi's hence the album cover, Levi's had some posters with
"Status Quo wear Levi's " Great video by the way, and hello from Wales 🏴
The line "ST's showing" is shorthand for "stocking tops showing"
Aaah - I always wondered what it meant - thank you very much for this explanation
Finally. After nearly 50 years, I find out!! Cheers matey.😂
@@alanhobden8847 I always thought it was …… you know what all teenage girls in UK used ST was short for. If you’re right I’m a far happier man as this has been on my playlist since they were in mix tapes!!
I love each and every one of those three chords
🤣 it was their calling card tbf
👍🏴
Maybe there was more than 3 😇
@iangillon6981 Many more but all the haters site only three. They were superb minstrels
@@colrhodes377 Och it’s good auld 3 chord R n R .. nothing wrong with that at all 😄
👍🏴
Please tell us what three chords it was..!
This is a great status quo clssic classic woe wow
The album is 'Blue for You' and got its name as part of a sponsorship deal Quo secured with Levi's in 1976. So the album cover was used as a billboard for Levi's at the time. This was actually one of the earliest ever sponsorship deals between a commercial product and an artist. Unfortunately, and as far as I'm aware this is true but please correct me if I'm wrong, the band were naive enough then to not check the small print and never received any money for the deal!
Spot on :)
They actually received a roll of denim from Levi Strauss for the deal. I remember Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt mentioning it on a TV interview, with Francis concluding "here sitteth two schmucks!"
One of the best rock albums of all time. One of Quo's finest. The reason for the denim... They had a sponsorship deal with Levi's. For promoting the brand they got... rolls of denim! Their management at the time and Levi's, ripped them off big time
The whole album (blue for you) is a brilliant fuckin' genius diamond pearl DREAM 😂❤
Mystery song is another great status quo from the album blue for you great album❤❤❤❤❤
Probably my favourite Quo song
I listen to QUO every day. They’ve never made anything bad. Glad you played the album version.
You would probably enjoy many of their songs. ENJOY 👍
What are 'STs' in Mystery Song? (Status Quo)
Rick Pafitt was asked this question by someone on the mailing list: it means 'Stocking Tops,' apparently. The song itself is actually about a prostitute, as confirmed by Francis Rossi at
Reading in December 1997. Blue For You - Status Quo’s 1976 Album. The 1976 “Mystery Song”, co-written with Bob Young, was composed after Rossi had laced Parfitt’s tea with amphetamine sulphate during the sessions for the Blue for You album. Rossi later said: “He was playing the riff when we left the studio, and he was still playing it when we came back the next day!”
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I think Cynthia really got a kick listening to this Status Quo belter and i am not surprised at all as this is my favourite.👏👏👏
Can't believe you were still sitting down once it gets going 😁😂
Love your reaction .that was Rick singing (the blonde one) and one of my favourite songs .Now you have to play “Roll over lay down” another favourite ,also have a look at “ Rocking all over the World “ from the Live Aid concert 1985 it’s the opening song from Wembley stadium .keep up the great songs .cheers from Australia 🍻😀
The No 1 Rock n Roll Band of all time :)
Quo were simply brilliant in their heyday.
The best live band you would ever wish to see, and I saw them live so many times.
Wrote by Rick Parfitt, the lads left Rick on his own in the studio . Rick was shoving stuff up his nose all night, when the band arrived at the studio next day Rick was still there and "Mystery Song" was born.
Fran actually gave him a speed tea, with a bit much speed inside. 😂
The album gives away the name. BLUE FOR YOU.
Open G tuning courtesy of the late, great Rick Parfiit, the others left him in the studio and fortified by much Cocaine he came up with this fantastic song, they where peaking at this point, definitely not a three chord band!
Rossi spiked Rick's cup of tea with a couple of spoonfulls of speed. Left him in the studio and came back next morning to find him still there having had no sleep but having pretty much finished writing Mystery Song.
Super album pour un super groupe pour ne pas dire le meilleur ❤
Ahh....one of the Quo songs with more than three chords in it😂😂😂😂😂😂
What is that chord.?? if you can?
@leiper72 aahh..relax dude.....it was meant as a light hearted comment......even Rick used to laugh about the three chord Myth.
They opened a festival I was at in 1990. They were fantastic ❤❤
You mean Live Aid in 1985?
@@leiper72 No, Knebworth 1990 😎
That drummer in the picture now has a kind of Status Quo covers band that tours. My band supported them a few years' ago.
Quo took over my life i talk about them all the time they were just the best thing that ever happend in my life took me to places far away with there sound met lots of people through them if only it was 1973😢
This is the album cover of the "Blue for you" Album. The clothes were made for Status Quo by Levi's. Iconic and I think, stylish, even today.
Rossi has a Wrangler Jacket on Dude.
@@iangillon6981 Fair enough mate, read xcess all areas. Rossi talks about the Levi's deal.
most certainly a great song!!
Britain's best but most underestemated Headbangers ..😍.
One of Quo's classic hits. The song concerns a young man's encounter with a lady of the night. Not sure if youtube would let me write the P word Lol
I love how Cynthia really gets into the mood when listening to Status Quo.
My favourite quo song,their seventies output was generally really strong.
The late great Rick Parfitt wrote this in a long overnight session on his own whilst high on far too much speed
It’s called Mystery Song because when Rick Parfitt was writing it , sitting up all night in the studio playing the riff( he’d ingested a lot of speed) , quite simply he couldn’t remember what he’d called it!!
I love them more as 45 years
I could never understand why Quo never made it in the states,great band.
I played this to my 90 year old man, full volume, the first few seconds she said. “Oh this is nice”…. Then….
this track is Fun, but you could equal with Deep Purple's Strange Kind of Woman regarding the content. goes country funk at the end.
really good album but i would recommend from the same album Is There a Better Way!
Great songs from the quo
Mystery Song,Down down,What ever you want , Backwater, Ring of a Change are the best ones!
Golden!
It's from the album Blue for You, how can you forget your research 😅 Crazy 🤪
You cant beat a bit or a lot of Early "Quo " Yay !
Album version, just pure brilliant Quo.
Can't go wrong with the QUO. so many tunes , try 4500 times
Best Quo performance you will ever see is Roadhouse Medley live. (Try Sutton Park AI enhanced). Outstanding.
Apparently the band left Rick in studio overnight after copious amounts of "Speed" and this was the result. Song about good time girls.
That was fun, thank you and im saaaacribing... any Sia fans here
The LP version is a lot Bassier and has a bit more kick. This sounds like a CD version.
The story goes (documented), that after a long day rehearsing and recording, Rick Parfitt was out for the count but wanted to stay behind to work on a few other bits. Francis Rossi slipped a teaspoon of speed in Rick's tea (unbeknown to Rick) and they all left. Rick drank the tea and wrote this song in a matter of hours about him trying to win over the love of a prostitute. Hence the 'speed' of the track and I have never heard anything as fast as this. One of my all time favourites
My fav Quo song ever, this full length version, just whacks you right in the face!
Down down has got to be your next
We did that one
@@hanierfamily OK how about Pictures of matchstick men there first hit and also a hit in the American charts in 1968 i believe
Got that T shirt on again that makes me suggest Bow Wow Wow - C30 C60 C90 Go.
Or even better "Prince of Darkness" - Sinner, sinner, sinner!
My favourite track from blues for you is -is there a better way. Brilliant quo track. Scott.bournemouth.
"Mystery Song" was banned by radio stations due to the lyric content.
So JJ 1540am radio in Sydney played it a lot in 1976.
JJ 1540am radio was a Govt. station and didn't have any advertisers to offend.
Australia can thank The Whitlam Labor government for that.
The tempo of mystery song along with a few songs is both great and bad as a driving song or even worse as a song to listen to when riding a motorcycle.
Get on a twisty road and hav mystery song blasting through the earbuds and you want to travel a lot quicker than is legal. 😂😂😂
As has already been commented, in my chair and down the dust pipe along with spinning wheel blues are Quo at what you might call their transition stage, British style blues, bloody great. 👍👍
Late sixties, early seventies British style blues was all the rage, Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, Fleetwood Mac, Ten Years After, Rory Gallagher, just to name a few.
Brilliant Stuff!! Thank so much for playing the `Blue For You` Album
Version!! (Sponsored by Levi`s) Song is about a prostitute. Love you Guys!! Big Up x
If you get the chance, check out blue eyed lady from the hello album, or big fat mama live
Bra stuff !
You should listen to Barry mcguire eve of destruction and the dickies eve of destruction both great songs
try and watch the video that goes with the single version of the song, it for me is exactly a rock and roll band in the zone and enjoying being so....
Hi hanier family the track from status quo called mystery song is about a prostitute, that's why they called it mystery song. So it didn't offend anyone
And it's from the album Blue for you