Status Quo – Blue For You 2CD

Status Quo – Blue For You

To celebrate National Album Day and the 2026 theme of ‘Icons’, Edsel Records are proud to present the reissue of the Number One album ‘Blue For You’ from Status Quo on it’s 50th anniversary.

‘Blue For You’ the band’s ninth studio album cemented one of the most commercially successful and creatively significant chapters in the band’s long-running career and continues to resonate with fans worldwide and features the Top 10 singles ‘Rain’ and ’Wild Side Of Life’ plus ‘Mystery Song’.

Released as a 2CD presented in Deluxe 7” sized gatefold packaging, the album has been newly mastered by Andy Brook and Francis Rossi and includes demos, rarities and live tracks from the era along with a brand new ‘Blue For You’ Q&A from Francis Rossi .

This edition includes the album in full plus the non album B-side to ‘Rain’ (‘You Lost The Love’) along with the single edit of ‘Mystery Song’, the non album single ‘Wild Side of Life’ and its B-side ‘All Through The Night’.  Also included across the two CDs are some outstanding live tracks recorded in 1975/1976 in Stoke and Osaka, Japan.

The album was preceded by a sold out UK tour featuring multiple nights in London, Liverpool, Newcastle, Glasgow and Cardiff before the band took the album tour to the US and Europe.  They then returned to the UK for the three infamous shows at Glasgow’s Apollo Theatre in October 1976 where they were to record what would become the incendiary ‘Live!’ album (with all three nights being recently released by Demon/Edsel).

Tracklist:
CD ONE
1 Is There A Better Way
2 Mad About The Boy
3 Ring Of A Change
4 Blue For You
5 Rain
6 Rolling Home
7 That's A Fact
8 Ease Your Mind
9 Mystery Song

CD TWO
1 You Lost The Love
2 Mystery Song (Single Edit)
3 Wild Side Of Life
4 All Through The Night
5 Wild Side Of Life (Demo)
6 Most of the time (live in Stoke 1975)
7 Roadhouse blues (live in Stoke 1975)
8 Bye bye Johnny (live in Osaka 1976)
9 Caroline (live in Osaka 1976)
10 In my chair (live in Osaka 1976)
11 Roll over lay down (live in Osaka 1976)
12 Is there a better way (live in Osaka 1976)
13 Rain (live in Osaka 1976)
14 Honky Tonk Angel (Demo 1976)

Label: Demon Records
Released: 1976/2026