MEGA RARE LP RECORD ORIGINAL UK 1968 PSYCH ALBUM

STATUS QUO

" Picturesque Matchstickable Messages From The Status Quo "

Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the " Status Quo " is the 1968 debut album by the British psychedelic rock group, Status Quo !

This is the Original FIRST PRESSING 1968 UK (Black & Blue) Pye NPL 18220 " MONO " light blue label LP album !

RARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRE ORIGINAL 1968 MONO !!!!

The album covers a number of songs, including "Green Tambourine" by The Lemon Pipers and others by Tommy Roe and the Bee Gees.

The lead single was originally intended to be "Gentleman Joe's Sidewalk Café", with the original Francis Rossi composition "Pictures of Matchstick Men" as the b-side, but these songs were eventually swapped round. It reached #7 in the UK, and remains the band's only major hit single in the United States where it reached #12. It also reached #8 in Canada.

A second single, Rossi's "Black Veils of Melancholy" (with organist Roy Lynes' non-album track "To Be Free" as the b-side), flopped and has even been called "a carbon copy of "Pictures of Matchstick Men"".

The third single, "Ice in the Sun", written for the band by Marty Wilde and Ronnie Scott (with the Francis Rossi/Rick Parfitt composition "When My Mind Is Not Live" as the b-side) reached #8 in the UK Singles Chart, and #29 in Canada.

The album was released on 27 September 1968, and reached #12 in the UK album charts.

The band released a fourth single from the album - "Technicolour Dreams" by Anthony King backed with the Wilde/Scott composition "Paradise Flat" - but this was withdrawn after a few days in favour of a non-album single release early the following year.

"Pictures of Matchstick Men" was the first hit single by Status Quo, released in January of 1968. It reached number seven in the British charts, number eight in Canada, and number twelve on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming their only hit single in the United States.[2] It was originally intended to be a B-side to 'Gentleman Joe's Sidewalk Cafe' but it was decided to swap the B-side and the A-side of the single.

The song opens with a single guitar repeatedly playing a simple four note riff before the rhythm guitar comes in with chords and the drums and lyrics begin. Pictures of Matchstick Men is one of a number of songs from the late sixties to feature phasing (the audio effect).

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I wrote it on the bog. I'd gone there, not for the usual reasons...but to get away from the wife and mother-in-law. I used to go into this narrow frizzing toilet and sit there for hours, until they finally went out. I got three quarters of the song finished in that khazi. The rest I finished in the lounge."

The song, which could be described as bubblegum psychedelia, is very similar in many respects to another early Quo song, Black Veils of Melancholy.

The "matchstick men" of the song refer to the paintings of L.S. Lowry.

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This is Status Quo in their successfull 'psychedelic phase' and includes their 2 top 10 hits: pictures of matchstick men & ice in the sun.

Original psych lp. The Quo's debut album, much more psychedelic than their later work!

Very Nice Clean copy of  The Quo's first album .........!

'Status Quo'
left to right John Coghlan-Francis Rossi-Rick Parfitt-Roy Lynes-Alan Lancaster

'Status Quo' 1968
left to right:
John Coghlan-Rick Parfitt-Roy Lynes-Francis Rossi (front)-Alan Lancaster

Condition
Extreme Thick and Heavy Vinyl disc (like almost the unbreakable ones):

NM- to EX+ [ Looks clean shine with couple mini light surface hairlines scuffs marks ].

clean Labels: NM- 

 Front Laminated Flipback sleeve cover: EX- to VG++ [ has some light wear after 41 years of storaging ,shine front with some rubbing and couple of minor wrinkles only light corners and light edges wear,Still Solid tight with NO seam split.. light yellowish aging colour on the back sleeve.]

VERY NICE MEGA RARRRRRRE SOLID ALBUM!!!

Track List

SIDE ONE:

1. "Black Veils of Melancholy" (Rossi) – 3:17
2. "When My Mind Is Not Live" (Rossi/Parfitt) – 2:50
3. "Ice in the Sun" (Wilde/Scott) – 2:13
4. "Elizabeth Dreams" (Wilde/Scott) – 3:29
5. "Gentleman Joe's Sidewalk Café" (Young) – 3:01
6. "Paradise Flat" (Wilde/Scott) – 3:13

SIDE TWO:

1. "Technicolour Dreams" (King) – 2:54
2. "Sheila" (Roe) – 1:56
3. "Spicks and Specks" (Gibb) – 2:46
4. "Sunny Cellophane Skies" (Lancaster) – 2:47
5. "Green Tambourine" (Leka/Pinz) – 2:19
6. "Pictures of Matchstick Men" (Rossi) – 3:13

MEMBERS / MUSICIANS

• Francis Rossi - guitar, vocals
• Rick Parfitt - guitar, vocals
• Alan Lancaster - bass, vocals
• John Coghlan - drums
• Roy Lynes - organ, vocals

Status Quo, also known as The Quo or just Quo, are a British rock band whose music is characterized by their distinctive hard rock boogie.

The group's origins were in "The Scorpions" founded by schoolboys Francis Rossi and Alan Lancaster in 1962. After a number of lineup changes, the band became "The Status Quo" in late 1967, finally settling on the name "Status Quo" in 1970. They have recorded over 60 chart hits in the UK, more than any other rock group in history. 22 of these have reached the UK Top Ten.

The origins of Status Quo were in the rock and roll freakbeat band "The Spectres" formed in 1962. Francis Rossi and Alan Lancaster met at Sedgehill Comprehensive School, Catford, and were members of the same orchestra. They started a band called The Scorpions, later changing the name to "The Spectres". Rossi and Lancaster played their first gig at the Samuel Jones Sports Club in Dulwich, London. In 1963 they added drummer John Coghlan. They began writing their own material and after a year met Rick Parfitt who was playing with a cabaret band called The Highlights. By the end of 1965 Rossi and Parfitt, who had become close friends, made a commitment to continue working together. On July 18, 1966 The Spectres signed a five-year deal with Piccadilly Records, releasing two singles that year, 'I (Who Have Nothing)' and 'Hurdy Gurdy Man' (written by Alan Lancaster), and one the next year called '(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet' (a song originally recorded by New York psychedelic band The Blues Magoos) - All three singles failed to make an impact on the charts.

By 1967, the group had discovered psychedelia and changed their name to Traffic (later amended to Traffic Jam, to avoid confusion with Steve Winwood's Traffic). At this time the line-up also included organist Roy Lynes. In late 1967 the band became The Status Quo, and in January 1968 they released the psychedelic-flavoured "Pictures of Matchstick Men". Rick Parfitt was invited to join the band just as the song hit the UK Singles Chart, reaching Number 7. "Matchstick Men" also became their only Top 40 hit single in the United States.They had a hit again the same year with the poppy, Marty Wilde penned "Ice in the Sun", which climbed to Number 8. Although the group's albums have been released in the United States throughout their career they have never achieved the same level of success and fame there that they have enjoyed in their home country.After the breakthrough, the band management hired Bob Young as a "roadie" and tour manager. Over the years Young became one of the most important songwriting partners for Status Quo.

 

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