Release Date 17th October 2026
National Album Day Release
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 signifcant 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
