Mean Girl

Not to be confused with Mean Girls.
"Mean Girl"
Single by Status Quo
from the album Dog of Two Head
B-side"Everything"
Released1973 (1973)
Recorded1971
GenreHard rock, boogie rock[1]
LabelPye Records
Songwriter(s)Francis Rossi
Bob Young
Producer(s)John Schroeder
Status Quo singles chronology
"Paper Plane"
(1972) 		"Mean Girl"
(1973) 		"Gerdundula"
(1973)
Music video
"Mean Girl" on YouTube

"Mean Girl" is a single released by the British rock band Status Quo in 1973. It was taken from their November 1971 album Dog of Two Head.[2]

Pye Records released the song more than a year after the album, following the success of the single "Paper Plane", released in November 1972 on the Vertigo label. It became a UK Top 20 hit – previously only three of the ten Pye singles had made the Top 20. They tried this again with the single "Gerdundula", another track from the same album, but it failed to chart.

The band included the song in the set for their 2009 Glastonbury Festival debut.[3]

Singles

  • 1973: "Mean Girl" (Rossi/Young) (3.53) / "Everything" (Rossi/Parfitt) (2.35) Vinyl 7", Pye: 7N 45229, United Kingdom
  • 1973: "Mean Girl" / "Tune to the Music", Vinyl 7", Pye: 12 661 AT, Germany
  • 1978: "Mean Girl" / "In My Chair", Vinyl 7", Pye: 7N 46095, United Kingdom
  • 1986: "Mean Girl" / "Technicolour Dreams", Vinyl 7", BR / 45096, Netherlands

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1973) Peak
position
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[4] 14
Germany (GfK)[5] 40
UK Singles (OCC)[6] 20

References

  1. ^ Cope 2019, eBook.
  2. ^ "Status Quo discography". Statusquo.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2010-01-11. Retrieved 2010-01-04.
  3. ^ "Status Quo make Glastonbury debut". Nme.com. 2009-06-28. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  4. ^ "Status Quo – Mean Girl" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
  5. ^ "Status Quo – Mean Girl" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
  6. ^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 20 September 2018.

Works cited

  • Cope, Andrew L. (2019). Status Quo: Mighty Innovators of 70s Rock. New York City: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-02590-4.


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