"Mystery Song" | ||||
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Single by Status Quo | ||||
from the album Blue for You | ||||
B-side | "Drifting Away" | |||
Released | 2 July 1976 | |||
Format | 7" | |||
Genre | Hard rock, heavy metal | |||
Length | 3:58 | |||
Label | Vertigo | |||
Songwriter(s) |
Rick Parfitt Bob Young |
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Producer(s) | Status Quo | |||
Status Quo singles chronology | ||||
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"Mystery Song" is a single released by the British rock band Status Quo in 1976. It was included on the album Blue for You.
The song concerns a young man's encounter with a prostitute. The B-side was "Drifting Away", from the band's 1974 album Quo.
The song was reprised, in 2014, for the band's thirty-first studio album Aquostic (Stripped Bare). It was featured in the ninety-minute launch performance of the album at London's Roundhouse on 22 October, the concert being recorded and broadcast live by BBC Radio 2 as part of their In Concert series.